I’ve attended 4 Perl Conferences in the past 2 years. This year’s Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is the first that I’ve presented at. My talk was titled Security through Detection, Prevention, and Introspection. I have slides available.
I originally wanted to present a bunch of code, but I couldn’t really find a way to make the code very interesting. I wanted to teach people that security is part of all of their jobs. I made it a point to reveal some of the idiocy of the Federal Government Mandates in relation to IT Security. I also gave an overview of the security system I’m building with Perl at work.
There were laughs, smiles, and a lot of people woke up. All in all, I’d say it went very well. I’d like to refine the presentation and possibly resubmit for YAPC::NA this year. Bigger audience, and an opportunity for me to conquer a large slice of my stage fright.
If anyone out there reading this saw the presentation and has feedback, please comment on this post!
UPDATE: If you enjoyed the content of my talk on security, please check out these articles I’ve written:
- Trust – Paradoxical Structure of Trust in Employers
- Eating Your Own Dog Food – Hypocritical IT Security Policies In the Real World
- Full Disk Encryption – In Theory and Practice
- Is Security Theatre Good Enough? Frustrating observations into poor Risk Analysis in the general populace.
