Kevin Johnson
Secure Ideas
About
Kevin Johnson is CEO of Secure Ideas, a consulting company dedicated to security testing and training. Kevin passionately advocates for cybersecurity through his work with Secure Ideas, as a global board member for OWASP and as a faculty member at IANS. During his over 30 years in the industry, Kevin acted as an instructor and author for the SANS institute. He also contributed to a number of open-source projects, including OWASP SamuraiWTF (a web pen-testing training environment), Laudanum (a collection of injectable web payloads) and Yokoso (an infrastructure fingerprinting project) and was the founder and lead of the BASE project for Snort. Kevin has served as an expert witness in court cases involving cybersecurity.
Sessions at dev up 2024
Breaking Bad Code: A Web App PenTest Workshop
Unlock the secrets of web application penetration testing in this invigorating, hands-on workshop. Tailored for beginners to intermediate tech enthusiasts from both software development and infosec...
Preventing the Exhaust Ports: How not to build a death star with your SDLC
Millions of stormtroopers and galactic empire citizens were lost because engineers didn't understand their design flaws. While this is a great movie reference, the reality is that organizations are...