Even though Security Champions programs look very different across organizations and maturity levels, they share core principles for becoming successful. Marisa shares her experience in building these programs to foster a positive security culture within companies. She explains the incentives and rewards that lead to more engagement from champions and the benefits that come from so many people being engaged with security.
Segment Resources:
- OWASP Security Champions Guide - Get Involved! - https://owasp.org/www-project-security-champions-guidebook/#div-getinvolved
- OWASP Security Champions Guide - LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/owasp-security-champions-guide/
- The Security Champions Success Guide - https://securitychampionsuccessguide.org/
- "Building a Successful Security Champions Program... What Does it Take?" - https://www.katilyst.com/post/building-a-successful-security-champions-program-what-does-it-take
Marisa is a self-described Security Culture Expert, having spent the last 16 years driving culture change and building communities around security programs. She is currently Head of Product at a “security champion programs as-a-service” startup called Katilyst, and before that she has built security culture programs at companies like Atlassian, Synopsys, and Salesforce.
She’s based in SF and prefers Peets to Philz for coffee fixes.
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