Kate & Lucy
Its a super duo on stage get ready. They gave the first ever talk at Chcon in 2016, and this year they’re back!
Kate Pearce is the Head of Security at Trade Me. She is a recovered pentester and security conference speaker who has presented on network protocol abuses, didn't talk about gaslighting for security defence, and is rumored to have made a government approved TTRPG.
Dr Lucy Stewart is an environmental microbiologist, union organiser, and the current co-President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists. Sometimes she speaks at security conferences just to keep things interesting.
Session
Statistical analysis can be a key tool for upping your security game, but there’s a lot of ways to end up with statistics-shaped outputs rather than useful information to support your work. In this talk a security expert (Kate Pearce) and a scientist (Lucy Stewart) team up to explain, with real-life examples, when and how statistics can help you figure out if that shiver down your spine is something to be concerned about – and when your priors are, actually, out to get you.