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Fire, Brimstone, and Bad Security Decisions - Recovery from Wrong Cybersecurity Choices

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Explore the critical aspect of cybersecurity resilience through recovery from poor decision-making in this 46-minute conference talk from BSidesSF 2025. Learn how to navigate and reverse strategic mistakes in security policy, design, architecture, and procurement that initially seemed beneficial but later proved problematic. Discover practical approaches for backing out of flawed security decisions while maintaining organizational effectiveness. Examine strategies for cultivating curiosity and learning from errors rather than becoming defensive when faced with being wrong. Understand how to design security frameworks that accommodate future course corrections and make strategic pivots more manageable. Gain insights into planning for human fallibility as an integral component of robust cybersecurity programs, recognizing that even well-intentioned security professionals make mistakes that require thoughtful remediation.

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BSidesSF 2025 - Fire, Brimstone, and Bad Security Decisions (Wendy Nather)

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