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Dwayne McDaniel

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I help people figure stuff out. I work at gitguardian.com Also, I am at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwaynemcdaniel/

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What feels like way too soon, we are already at the #ConFoo 2026 Closing Keynote
"Seven Habits of a (Mostly) Successful Team"
Sander Hoogendoorn - CTO at iBOOD[.]com

27.02.2026 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Building agentic research assistants to search online for us
Frank Boucher, Developer Advocate - Reka

27.02.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Magical client-side logging – the little headers that could
Marcus Bointon, Owner and Technical Director- Synchromedia Limited

27.02.2026 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
How the browser is breaking your web app
Anthony Vallee-Dubois

27.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
oAuth2 - Client and Server Implementation
Martin Legris- Obvious Leap

27.02.2026 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Building Rock-Solid Encrypted Applications
from Ben Dechrai, Staff Developer Advocate & Software Engineer

27.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026 day 3 kicks off with:
Web Application Security Up-to-date: The 2025 OWASP Top Ten
Christian Wenz - Arrabiata Solutions

27.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Full Stack AI Security
Jonathan Marcil, Chapter Co-Leader - OWASP Montreal

26.02.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Nobody is Serious About Digital Sovereignty
Josh Reed, Infrastructure Staff Software Engineer - Aiven

26.02.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Avoiding DΓ©jΓ  Vu: Building Resilient APIs with Idempotency
From Paul Conroy

26.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
How I Became a Repo Man for a Day
Micah Silverman, Director of AI Acceleration - Snyk

26.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 2 of #ConFoo 2026 kicks off with
Building a supply chain attack with .NET and NuGet
By Maarten Balliauw, Head of Customer Success- Duende Software

26.02.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Rogue LLMs: Securing Prompts and Ensuring Persona Fidelity
from Ben Dechrai, Staff Developer Advocate & Software Engineer

25.02.2026 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026

Securing the SDLC: From Code to Production
from Mohamed Wali, Senior Solutions Architect - AWS

25.02.2026 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’‘ Boards want answers in dollars, not jargon.
Mike Radigan returns to break down how to speak to execs about cyber risk using the FAIR modelβ€”and how a crazy marketing movie helped him make the case.
🎧 Must-listen for CISOs & GRC pros:
youtu.be/g5zoxqOUSJ8

25.02.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
"CSRF are back with Client-Side Path Traversal"
by Philippe Arteau, Security Engineer - Service Now

25.02.2026 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
From Vulnerability to Victory: Java Security Essentials
From Anthony Dahanne, Software Engineer - HeroDevs

25.02.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Serverless PHP: How to Say Goodbye to Pager Duty
from Carl Alexander, creator of Ymir

25.02.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026
Agentic Access: OAuth Gets You In. Zero Trust Keeps You Safe
Nick Taylor, Developer Advocate - Pomerium

25.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026 opening Keynote
"Spec-Driven Development: A Faster Way to Code"
by Erik Hanchett Sr. Dev Advocate at AWS

25.02.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ConFoo 2026 has officially kicked off!
This year is the Year of the Fire Horse, which signifies "intense, rapid change."
If that does not describe the world of AI evolution, I don't know what does, and it is a perfect theme for this event.

25.02.2026 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A preview of the Wednesday morning Keynote at #CNCF Montreal February Meetup at #ConFoo the night before sessions fully kick off!

Lighting Talks - Using Spec-Driven Development for Agentic Coding" / "Kiro AI-Powered IDE"
by Erik Hanchett

25.02.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#CNCF Montreal February Meetup at #ConFoo
Effortless Containerization with Cloud Native Buildpacks
by Daniel Mikusa

24.02.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am super thrilled to be able to present a talk tonight at the #CNCF Montreal meetup at #ConFoo!!!

community.cncf.io/events/detai...

Also, congrats to the team for organizing the first Toronto KCD! (registration open)
kcdtoronto.ca

24.02.2026 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I can not tell you how proud I am to be part of #ConFoo this year.
Come hear me speak Wednesday and Thursday!

confoo.ca/en/speaker/d...

24.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Confronting Vault Sprawl And The Risks It Brings Vault sprawl means duplicated secrets, fragmented access, and unclear ownership. Learn how GitGuardian's NHI Governance restores control across the enterprise.

Devs are being targeted as the entry point for supply chain attacks. This is not new.
But now, especially with AI, the tactics have changed a bit. Storing credentials in environment variables might not be the best idea anymore...
blog.gitguardian.com/confronting-...

24.02.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know who needs to hear this, but nothing is stopping you from looking up your favorite birds on Wikimedia
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

21.02.2026 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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They crashed a Cisco WebEx server with raw charisma and off-brand security training.
Mike Radigan & Dwayne Edwards share the chaotic, hilarious journey behind their underground hit, The PCI Ultimatum.
πŸ”₯ You don’t want to miss this one:

youtu.be/p6lRyiB5Q5M

18.02.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Is Making Security More Agile: Highlights from ChiBrrCon 2026 ChiBrrCon 2026 tackled AI, resilience, and operational agility in enterprise security. Learn what top speakers shared on SOC modernization and architectural risk.

My first in-person conference of 2026 was right here in my home city of Chicago.
I had a blast and learned so much at #ChiBrrCon
I wrote up a blog post on the experience.

blog.gitguardian.com/chibrrcon-20...

17.02.2026 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"And in agent ecosystems, the line between reading instructions and executing them collapses."

I am not sure most people, even techies, understand how fast things are evolving right now.

1password.com/blog/from-ma...

12.02.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0