Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and weekly podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won numerous awards, and has been everywhere from startups to public service to tech giants (Microsoft, Adobe, & Nokia). She has worn many hats; startup founder, pentester, CISO, AppSec Engineer, and software developer. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks and trainings on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.

Founder: We Hack Purple (Academy, Community and Podcast), WoSEC International (Women of Security), OWASP DevSlop, OWASP Victoria, #CyberMentoringMonday.  Chapter List: 


00:00:20 Opening

00:00:47 About @SheHacksPurple

00:01:55 Tanya is here!

00:02:21 Red Team, Blue Team, Purple Team

00:04:20 Purple Trait: Empathy

00:05:02 Purple Trait: Advocacy

00:06:50 Young Coding

00:08:04 Childhood and parents

00:08:37 "The Shirt Story"

00:09:12 Discovering that Code should be secure

00:11:20 Educating Students

00:12:15 "Cross Site Scripting" meaning

00:13:52 Introducing WeHackPurple.com

00:16:52 "DevSecOps" Definition

00:19:02 Public Speaking

00:19:54 Meet WOSEC

00:22:45 Big Shoutout to Chloé Messdaghi

00:24:22 Cyber Mentoring Monday

00:26:15 Mentee Responsibilities

00:28:25 Everyone needs a mentor

00:29:56 Salary negotiations

00:32:40 Less Traveling is good.

00:34:30 Management vs. Leadership

00:37:10 Diversity and Inclusion

00:37:40 Shout out to Jane Franklin and Tara Wheeler

00:42:22 Cookies!!!

00:43:20 Advice to a younger Tanya

00:46:34 Tribe of Hackers: Security Leaders

00:49:00 Signing off, parting wisdom from Tanya