Content from The Boring Security Talk now available

In September I presented The Boring Security Talk at DDD Melbourne, NDC Sydney and the Melbourne Cloud and Datacenter Meetup.

This talk was an ambitious talk and I was attempting to cover a wide range of topics that are not commonly discussed. I really enjoyed putting the talk together and presenting it to everyone.

The NDC session was longer than DDD Melbourne, with some additional content around why items like CI/CD, DNS, Email and package security are so important. There are also some more detailed examples and descriptions.

You can find the slides here:

• DDD Melbourne
• NDC Sydney
• Melbourne Cloud and Datacenter Meetup

At the end of the talk, I also provided links to three great resources if you wanted more information:

• MX Toolbox: Providers a range of useful email focused security tools.
• PostMark: provides DMARC weekly digests for free!
• My write-up on managing DNS with DNSControl, CloudFlare, DNSimple, GitHub, VSTS, Key Vault and Docker.

I want to thank everyone who attended and provided feedback to me afterwards. I also want to congratulate the organisers and volunteers who helped run such great events!

Upcoming Conferences

I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting a new talk, “The Boring Security Talk” at both DDD Melbourne and NDC Sydney in September.

Don’t let the name fool you, the session will cover how you can protect some of the often-overlooked aspects of your organisation’s security! I'll be talking about dependencies, email, DNS and CI/CD. I'm putting together a session that should interest developers, operations and security teams.

Tickets to DDD Melbourne have already sold out, but tickets are still available to NDC Sydney.

I look forward to seeing everyone at DDD and NDC!

I'm speaking at NDC Sydney