With over twenty years of experience in software development and application security, Laura Bell Main specializes in bringing #appsec and #SecureDevelopment practices into organizations worldwide.
She is the co-founder and CEO of SafeStack, an online education platform offering flexible, high-quality, and people-focused secure development training for fast-moving companies, focusing on building application security skills, practices, and culture across the entire engineering team.
Laura is an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member and has spoken at various events such as BlackHatUSA, NDC, RenderATL, and OSCON on application security, DevSecOps, secure development, and security mindset. She is also the co-author of "Agile Application Security" and "Security for Everyone."
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SafeStack
CEO and Founder
August 2014 - Present (9 years 8 months)
Giving software development teams the skills they need to build high quality, secure software at speed.
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DevNetwork
DevNetwork Advisory Board - Enterprise Advisory Board
August 2023 - Present (8 months)
#DevNetwork is the global community for technology professionals -- producing definitive industry conferences for the developer, software engineering, and IT industries. I’ll be supporting content curation and will be judging the annual industry DEVIES Awards and hackathons.
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Onwardly
Investor and Advisor
September 2020 - Present (3 years 7 months)
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Developers Institute
Lecturer - Application Security
June 2021 - November 2021 (6 months)
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Hackers Helping Hackers
Board Member
July 2017 - February 2018 (8 months)
