Chris Horsley
Chris Horsley is the CTO and co-founder at Cosive, a consultancy specialising in cyber threat intelligence and security operations. At Cosive, Chris leads the company's threat intelligence sharing and MISP initiatives and is a frequent speaker and trainer at industry conferences and meetups on these topics. Prior to co-founding Cosive, Chris spent many years in the international CSIRT community including working as an incident responder for both AusCERT and JPCERT/CC, the Japanese national CSIRT.
Session
Why is poor user experience (UX) in security tools so common? From expensive enterprise systems to home-grown vibe coded disposable applications to CLI tools, it's rare to find security tools where data and controls are laid out the same way our brain works. As security analysts, we often don't have the design vocabulary to explain why something isn't working the way we'd like, but on an emotional level there's something we know is not quite right.
Why is that? In this talk, we'll look at why UX is often undervalued in security tooling, but that it doesn't have to be this way. We'll also discuss some foundational design concepts and patterns to help everyone improve the way you think about user experience in your own projects.