Dwayne McDaniel
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website:https://dwayne-mcdaniel.com/
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what they talk about
all 7 in the filters
where they keep going back
- MidCamp3 editions2017–2019
- CloudNativeSecurityCon North America2 editions2023–2024
- BSidesSF2 editions2023–2024
all 9 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Mackenzie Jackson17 talks
- Jeroen Willemsen8 talks
- Laura Bell13 talks
- Aaron Bedra14 talks
- Cailyn Edwards6 talks
- Michael Kaufmann5 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Hidden Dangers Of AI In Developer Workflows: Navigating... with Dwayne McDaniel | DjangoCon US 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
Shows a real supply-chain incident where an NX library contained a supply chain prompt injection that exfiltrated keys, cites GitGuardian research finding… | ||
| What Is Going On In Your Source Code? Understanding SCA In Plain Language | SOSS Fusion 2024 | 2024-10-22 |
Breaks down software composition analysis into concrete checks: generate SBOMs + VEX attestation (CycloneDX / in-toto JSON), map known flaws via… | ||
| Businesses Run On Risk And Debt: Why Communicating Security Risk Is Hard | OWASP Global AppSec San Francisco 2024 | 2024-09-23 |
Claim: executives hear resiliency and technical debt very differently than security people do, so budget requests fail. Concrete moves: translate CVEs and CVSS… | ||
| Championing Security: Scaling Security at Every Level | CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024 | 2024-06-26 |
Security teams run about 100 to 1 short, so the practical fix is empowering embedded security champions on every team who spot problems, ask the right… | ||
| Long Live Short Lived Credentials - Auto-rotating Secrets At Scale | BSidesSF 2024 | 2024-05-04 |
Auto-rotate credentials by putting everything into a single secret manager, writing rotation scripts (AWS rotation Lambdas, Vault/Key Vault/Doppler… | ||
| Who Goes There? Detecting Intruders With Honeytokens | Conf42 DevSecOps 2023 | 2023-11-30 |
Claims that decoy credentials catch intruders early and cut dwell time, backed by finding 10 million hard-coded credentials on public GitHub last year… | ||
| Security Does Not Need to Be Fun: Ignoring OWASP to Have a Terrible Time | cdCon + GitOpsCon 2023 | 2023-05-08 |
OWASP documents 242 projects (about 155 usable) with 18 flagships, 36 labs and 114 incubators, and maps many tools to the SDLC so teams can act instead of… | ||
| Stop Committing Your Secrets - Git Hooks To The Rescue! | BSidesSF 2023 | 2023-04-22 |
Claim: stop secrets before they reach remote repos by running scanners in Git hooks. Evidence: a report finds 10 million secrets in GitHub public repos last… | ||
| App Security Does Not Need To Be Fun: Ignoring OWASP To Have A Terrible Time | Python Web Conf 2023 | 2023-03-13 |
OWASP packages practical assets: Top 10 vulnerability lists with “how to prevent” sections, one‑page cheat sheets, and hands‑on apps like Juice Shop… | ||
| Security Does Not Need to Be Fun: Ignoring OWASP to Have a Terrible Time | CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2023 | 2023-02-01 |
Argues OWASP is a practical toolbox, not just a mission statement, listing roughly 157 usable projects, 18 flagship and 34 lab projects and the surprising… | ||
| Stop Committing Your Secrets - Git Hooks To The Rescue! | Conf42 DevSecOps 2022 | 2022-12-01 |
Repository scans find over 6 million exposed keys in 2021 and roughly three in a thousand commits contain a secret, so the proposed fix is automation: install… | ||
| Bash is magic # No it's not | MidCamp 2019 | 2019-03-21 |
Claim: anyone who can type can use the CLI to automate repetitive web tasks. Demonstrations show using Bash with WP-CLI, Drush, Composer, Git, curl, grep… | ||
| Nobody wants a website. They want results! | MidCamp 2018 | 2018-03-08 |
Argues that clients want measurable business outcomes, not a “website,” and recommends qualifying prospects by budget, authority, need and timeframe then… | ||
| We Are All Making This Up: Improv Lessons For Developers | MidCamp 2017 | 2017-03-30 |
Compares stage improv rules to web work and gives seven concrete practices: start with the obvious (treat the ticket as part of the scene and scope before… | ||
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