 This is out of the basement demystifying security and operations and I'm gonna introduce myself a little bit later but first what do I mean by demystifying security and operations? Like what is the thing? I'm trying to demystify what you usually think of when you think of technical operations and security. So for instance when you're thinking about technical operations you really don't want to think of the bastard operator from hell who just conveniently ignores the fires and he says I'll get to it when I get to it and just is very hard to work with or seemingly all they deal with are fires or when we're talking about security operations folks the scary person who's like no you cannot do this no you cannot do that no you cannot do anything because security and compliance so I'm trying to remove these stereotypes that most people commonly run into because really when you get down to it security and operations is really about one thing in one person and that person is no come on give it to me no no hi it's me my name is Jamisha Fisher I'm a security operations engineer at github and fun fact when I took this picture just got off of a night shift but you know there was brunch so it's great I'm also a hashtag devops sparkly princess so with all that being said now that you know me why did I get into security and ops one was that I wanted to be a jack of all trades and also get to know the people fun fact this community here is the reason that I'm here today so thank you so much for teaching me all the things about technology but why do we love it why do we love security and operations and I'm gonna have a little help from the Twitter verse on this one there's many different reasons why we love it for first and foremost we like the thrill of problem solving we like you know figuring stuff out and having interesting problems that our brains can chew on and this includes problems that happen in the most inopportune time such as 2 a.m. it's like oh I really don't want to deal with this but this broken a different way this is great so we love the problem solving and the way it's very varied and this is especially important in security because with security the target is always changing the threat model is always changing with each new and different technology so you often have to be on your toes which can be really exciting for some people another thing that comes in common with security and operations people is the people aspect you kind of get to know different ins and outs of your company that many people may not have access to but we're also pretty responsible with it so with all this being in mind security and operations kinds of gives a lifelong lesson of learning about people and technology and you get paid for it which is what we all you know kind of aspire to in a way so now that we have the reasons that we love it what do we dislike and how could it be improved and again going back to the two reverse on this one of the things that gets brought up is the disconnect between maintenance and going to do different technologies a lot of companies are focused on making the new features instead of maintaining some of the stuff that they have so that you know needs to change you need to have a little bit maintenance but that's hard work that takes a lot of talking and some people have to talk early sometimes you have to get the teams all together early enough and it requires a lot of empathy which brings me to my next point in order to have empathy you have to have more of a diverse and inclusive organization and culture a culture that doesn't have ego and where you constantly have to reprove your skills so that needs to change in the industry so in conclusion we're security operations people we're here we're growingly diverse but we need that empathy and that teamwork because when we have all that teamwork and all those things that we put together we all win thank you so this is the last slide but I have an extra one if you want to come and talk with me either after this or during open spaces feel free to otherwise there's my email there's my Twitter handle and thank you again