bio

Sarah leads the infrastructure security team at Shopify. Her background includes 10+ years of security/privacy/infrastructure design, engineering, and research.

She can be followed for cats and tech humor on Twitter: @worldwise001.

pubs list

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Panel: Money talks: How Fintech Innovation can Close the Gap in Financial Equality. GHC.
  • Presentation: You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See. OWASP SF Meetup.
  • Repeat Presentation: Anti-Privacy Anti-Patterns. sqr00t.
  • Presentation: Anti-Privacy Anti-Patterns. BSidesSF. (Recording)
  • Lightning Talk: The (Ano)Nymity Slider - why and how data redaction can fail. (internal at Square).

2018

  • Hologram: “Our Time”. GHC.
  • Presentation: The (Security-centric) Woman’s Guide To The Galaxy. GDGSF IWD.
  • Panel: Security. Sentry Scouts. (Summary)
  • Lightning Talk: Differential Privacy. (internal at Square).
  • Presentation: You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See. sqr00t.

2017

  • Presentation: From Zero To Cool: Lessons Learnt from Running CTFs. NBT4Con.
  • Presentation: You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See. sqr00t.
  • Workshop + CTF: Capture The Flag: Learning to Hack for Fun and Profit. GHC. (300+ attendees!)
  • Presentation: Making Use of Visualization to Understand Traffic/Data Flow. Hear + Now. (Recording)

2016

  • Panel: So You Want to Hack The Planet: Demystifying Careers and Opportunities in Cryptography, Security, and Privacy. GHC. (Schedule)

2015

  • Presentation: Protecting infrastructure secrets with Keywhiz. CyberSec.

2013

  • Presentation: Why you should care about Security and Privacy. KWLUG. (Summary)

2011

  • Paper: A Pre-Kernel Agent Platform for Security Assurance. 2011 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. (Paper)

2009

  • Technical Report: Channel Switching Overhead for 802.11b. Southern Illinois University - Carbondale. (Paper)