How to Become a Security Partner (and Why You Should)

Presented at Diana Initiative 2022, Aug. 11, 2022, 4 p.m. (30 minutes)

Netflix, Microsoft, Meta, and many other companies are investing in security partner programs, hiring engineers to do internal education and security review across engineering teams. How do security partners elevate internal security competency, and how can you qualify to do this work? This talk will look at several security partner job descriptions and dive into what’s involved in the job from day to day from a first-person perspective. The audience will leave understanding a newer, specialized security role, why they might want to pursue this work, and how they can get the skills needed to successfully apply for these roles.


Presenters:

  • Breanne Boland - Gusto
    Breanne Boland is a product security engineer with the Security Partnerships team at Gusto. Before moving into security, she was a site reliability engineer and an infrastructure engineer who did work in healthcare and govtech. Prior to that, she was a professional writer, and she still considers finishing the docs the real sign that the work is done. She writes fiction and zines, embroiders, makes creatures out of clay, and reminisces about traveling. She lives in Oakland and can be found at twitter.com/breanneboland.

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