Alice, Bob, and SheHacksPurple
Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software.
Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from startups to public service to tech giants (Microsoft, Adobe, & Nokia). She has worn many hats; startup founder, pentester, CISO, AppSec Engineer, and software developer. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks and training on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
The strong connection between people who write music and people who write software
How Tanya was always very interested in music writing and learned drums at age 34
How dyslexia has perhaps helped Tanya become the adept teacher she is today
Why Tanya says she’d prefer to be known as “a cybersecurity expert who is a woman not as a woman who is a cybersecurity expert”
How the Alice and Bob of Tanya’s popular book came about
How her book is organized in the way people develop software and how security fits in at every stage
Why security needs to be part of everything from the start
How she teaches security professionals to talk to adults
Why Tanya describes software developers as tradesmen who are simply in a trade where they don’t get dirty
The answer to the question “why purple?”
In this episode….
Tanya Janca comes from a family of mathematically-minded and computer-literate people. Her father was a technologist, her mother a mathematician chemist, and two aunts and three uncles were computer scientists. In many ways, she was born into what she does.
We Hack Purple is Tanya’s company where she lives her passion for cybersecurity, teaching, and bringing developers together. Tanya is also an accomplished musician, she plays guitar, drums, and sings, and has been part of several bands. She hosts two podcasts, one of which features an extensive exploration of every chapter in her book ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is an engaging, brilliant, and very personable teacher.
In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Tanya Janca discuss how she got into cybersecurity and founded We Hack Purple. They discuss Tanya’s journey through being a software developer, working for Microsoft, and failing at the very first company she founded. They also explore sexism in the industry, how best to teach security to developers, and Tanya’s plans for Alice and Bob.
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