Minnebar 20

I spoke for the second time at Minnebar 20 last Saturday (May 2)! Although it was only my third time attending, this year was special as it was the 20th Minnebar! It’s a wonderful community, and after starting my sessions by giving my own talk, I attended two sessions on Operation Metro Surge, both of which contained lessons that apply beyond how Minneapolis responded to the ICE operation, a fun Matrix-themed talk on passkeys and the current challenges with using them, a retrospective on tech companies in the Twin Cities, and a couple of high-quality DevOps related talks.

Minnebar is a great community and I also had great conversations at lunch and in the hallway track between sessions. I’m looking forward to it next year! Details of the talk I gave (along with slides) are included below!

Description

Let’s talk about cybersecurity warnings! Security warnings - and many other computer warnings - are terrible, and there are so many examples…but why is that and does it really have to be that way? I’m lucky to have worked on a project to explain what makes a good cybersecurity warning for product designers, security professionals, and lawyers, and I can tell you that it doesn’t!

Come join us in mocking a gallery of bad security and not-security warnings, in screenshots and emoji. Along the way, we’ll talk about the history of security and traditional product warnings, what we know about making good warnings, celebrate a (small) gallery of good warnings, and talk about how we can all get better!

Slides

You can download handouts of my slides, which include my speaker’s notes and links to all references.