Talks by Shortridge

If you are interested in inviting me to your speaking event, please reach out via the contact form below. This page is a list of my future and prior public speaking engagements, including slides, video, and fulltext links when available.

Upcoming Talks

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Prior Talks

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  • Mobile Security Roundtable: Can Cybersecurity and Development Teams Work Together to Achieve Secure Innovation?

    Conference Site

    Singapore International Cyber Week | Singapore

    October 22, 2025

  • In the beginning, there was no security testing

    Conference Site

    SecTor Executive Summit | Toronto, Canada

    October 22, 2024

  • Software security as a force of nature

    Video

    StaffPlus New York 2024 | NYC

    September 4, 2024

    • Private Lecture: On Open Source Security

      Harvard Kennedy School's Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology Program | Cambridge, MA

      August 2024

    • Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Cybersecurity

      Abstract

      Craft Conf 2024 | Budapest, Hungary

      May 30, 2024

    • Shifting to a Resilience Strategy

      Conference Site

      Metals & Mining ISAC Annual Conference | Kennedy Space Center, Florida

      November 2023

    • A Love Letter to Isolation

      SlidesVideo

      Cloud Native Wasm Day 2023 | Chicago, USA

      November 6, 2023 - 10:30 CST (UTC -6)

    • Continuous Resilience: Extending DevOps Practices for Systems Resilience

      Slides

      All Day DevOps 2023 | The Internet

      October 26, 2023

    • Watering the Roots of Resilience—Learning from Failure with Decision Trees

      Schedule

      O'Reilly Security Superstream: DevSecOps | The Internet

      October 18, 2023 - 11:05 ET (15:05 UTC/GMT)

    • Lightning Talk: Secure by Design

      Event Site

      Fastly Altitude 2023 | NYC & The Internet

      September 26, 2023

    • Fast, Ever-Evolving Defenders: The Resilience Revolution

      Slides

      Black Hat USA 2023 | Las Vegas

      August 9, 2023

    • Keynote | Practical Magic: the Resilience Potion and Security Chaos Engineering

      Video

      GOTO Chicago 2023 | Chicago, IL

      May 24, 2023

    • Watering the Roots of Resilience: Learning from Failure with Decision Trees

      Slides & Video

      SREcon Americas | Santa Clara, CA

      March 21, 2023

    • The Very Hungry Defender: Metamorphosing Security {Decision-Making} by Incorporating Opportunity Cost

      Slides & Video

      USENIX Enigma | Santa Clara, CA

      January 26, 2023

    • From Lemons to Peaches: Improving Security ROI through Security Chaos Engineering

      Paper

      IEEE Secure Development (SecDev) Conference | Atlanta, GA

      October 18 - 20, 2022

    • Lamboozling Attackers

      Slides

      Summercon 2022 | NYC

      July 9, 2022

    • How Behavioral Economics Can Help Make Better Security Decisions

      Video

      RSAC 2022 | San Francisco, CA

      June 7, 2022

    • Signature Keynote | Mitigating Information Overflows in the FOMOsec Era

      FS-ISAC FinCyber Today 2021 | The Internet

      November 3, 2021

    • The Scientific Method: Security Chaos Experimentation & Attacker Math

      Video

      RSA Conference 2021 | The Internet

      May 18, 2021 | 10:05 PT

    • Keynote | The Human in the Shell

      Video

      Elevate Security live 2021 | The Internet

      May 11, 2021

    • From Catastrophe to Chaos in Production

      Slides

      GOTOpia Chaos Engineering Day 2021 | The Internet

      February 18, 2021

    • Keynote | Exit Stage Left: Eradicating Security Theater

      Slides | Video

      SnykCon 2020 | The Internet

      October 21, 2020

    • To Err is Human: The Complexity of Security Failures

      Slides

      2020 DC Chaos Engineering Event | The Internet

      April 21, 2020

    • Keynote | The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security

      Slides | Video

      S4x20 | Miami, Florida

      January 23, 2020

    • Keynote | Controlled Chaos: The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security

      Slides | Video Snippet

      Velocity | Berlin, Germany

      November 7, 2019

    • Keynote | To Err is Human: The Complexity of Security Failures

      Slides | Video

      Hacktivity | Budapest, Hungary

      October 26, 2019

    • Entering the Cave: Conquering Security Fears of Modern Infrastructure

      CISO Forum 2019 | Half Moon Bay, CA

      September 25, 2019

    • Controlled Chaos: The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security

      Slides

      Black Hat USA | Las Vegas, NV

      August 7, 2019

    • Security Delusions

      Slides

      QCon NYC | New York, NY

      June 26, 2019

    • Keynote: On Resilience in Infosec

      ISACA New York Metropolitan Chapter's Spring Membership Meeting | New York, NY

      April 11, 2019

    • Why Defense is Hard

      NYPD Cyber Intelligence and Counterterrorism Conference | New York, NY

      March 19, 2019

    • Risk Quicksand in Information Security

      Slides

      Art into Science: A Conference on Defense | Round Rock, TX

      January 30, 2019

    • Paint by Numbers: Measuring Resilience in Security

      Slides

      Square R00t | NYC

      November 14, 2018

    • Paint by Numbers: Measuring Resilience in Security

      Slides | Video

      DuraznoConf | Durazno, Uruguay

      October 4, 2018

    • Paint by Numbers: Resilience in Security

      Slides | Video

      AusCERT | Gold Coast, Australia

      May 31, 2018

    • Keynote: Security as Product

      Full Text | Video

      BSides Knoxville | Knoxville, TN

      May 18, 2018

    • #womenterprise Sector Series: Security

      NY Enterprise Technology Meetup | NYC

      May 16, 2018

    • Panel: AI in Security, Gaps Between Theory and Practice. Demonstrating Value to Customers

      USENIX Security & AI Networking Conference (ScAINet '18) | Atlanta, GA

      May 11, 2018

    • Threat Prioritization: Freeing the White Whale

      Slides

      HackNYC | NYC

      May 8, 2018

    • Practical Magic: Behavior-based Security Design for IoT

      Slides

      Troopers | Heidelberg, Germany

      March 12, 2018

    • Why Defense is Hard

      NYPD Cyber Intelligence & Counterterrorism Conference 2018 | NYC

      February 13, 2018

    • A Dangerous Folly: Why Individual Attack Prediction Can’t Be Our Goal

      Slides

      Art into Science | Austin, TX

      January 30, 2018

    • Return Oriented: 2017 InfoSec Market Recap

      BSidesNYC | NYC

      January 20, 2018

    • Defensive Exploitation: How to Pwn Your Attacker's Decision-making

      Slides

      ZeroNights | Moscow, Russian Federation

      November 17, 2017

    • Closing Keynote: The Red Pill of Resilience

      Video | Slides | Full Text

      Countermeasure 2017 | Ottawa, Canada

      November 10, 2017

    • Big Game Theory Hunting: The Peculiarities of Human Behavior in the InfoSec Game

      Slides

      BSides PDX | Portland, OR

      October 21, 2017

    • Opening Keynote: The Red Pill of Resilience

      Slides

      Rochester Security Summit | Rochester, NY

      October 19, 2017

    • Big Game Theory Hunting: The Peculiarities of Human Behavior in the InfoSec Game

      Slides

      BlackHat USA | Las Vegas, NV

      July 26, 2017

    • Disrupting the attack lifecycle: how do attackers behave?

      Slides sans gifs :'(

      RiskSec | New York, NY

      May 2, 2017

    • Volatile Memory: Behavioral Game Theory in Defensive Security

      Video | Slides

      Troopers | Heidelberg, Germany

      March 23, 2017

    • Know Thyself: Optimizing Team Decision Making

      Slides

      Art into Science: A Conference for Defense | Austin, TX

      January 26, 2017

    • Privacy vs. Security: A False Tradeoff?

      Webinar

      BrightTalk Privacy vs. Security Summit | The Internet

      October 2016

    • Duo Tech Talk

      Video | Slides

      DuoSecurity Tech Talks | Ann Arbor, MI

      November 11, 2016

    • The Art of Explanation: Behavioral Models of Infosec

      Video | Slides

      Hacktivity | Budapest, Hungary

      October 21, 2016

    • Behavioral Models of Infosec: Industry irrationality & what to do about it

      Slides

      NCC Open Forum | NYC

      August 2016

    • DIY Education in Cyber Security

      Slides

      NYU Poly's Career Discovery in Cyber Security: A Women's Symposium | NYC

      July 2015

    • Cyber Education: Your Options & Resources Mapped Out

      Slides

      NYU Poly's Career Discovery in Cyber Security: A Women's Symposium | NYC

      October 2014

    • You've Been Hacked — IP Security in the Digital Domain

      ipCG Thought Leadership Conference | Stowe, VT

      November 2013