Keynote: Securing the Future
Laura Bell Main graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence before that was a thing you could get a job in. It wasn’t her finest piece of planning. She used to write natural language based systems for fun, in Java…. We all make mistakes…
In the past few months, Laura has been revisiting and rebuilding her history as a developer, looking at the systems and tools she has built and how technology has now changed to make those past technologies truly game changing.
As she explores this exciting future world we are now building together, she will help us all understand how application security is changing in parallel and what we can all do to make sure the future technology we build is secure enough to last.Laura Bell Main graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence before that was a thing you could get a job in. It wasn’t her finest piece of planning. She used to write natural language based systems for fun, in Java…. We all make mistakes…-
Laura Bell Main is recognized as a global leader in developing secure software. As the CEO of SafeStack, a leading secure development education platform, she helps software development leaders worldwide engage their entire team in cyber security. She is the co-author of "Agile Application Security" (O’Reilly Media) and "Security for Everyone" (Holloway).
Her work has been featured in many international publications, including WIRED and MIT Tech Review. She has presented at BlackHat USA, and RenderATL, as well as leading international software development and cyber security conferences.