Career Village: WTF is an Org Chart? Building Security Teams
Matt Damco
BSides Seattle 2026 · Day 2 · Track 2
Matt Damco, Head of Security at Zenity, delivers a practical guide on how to build and scale security teams from the ground up. Drawing from his experience advising startup founders and working across companies of varying sizes, Damco walks through the organizational psychology behind security team design -- from the very first hire at a 10-person startup to structuring pillars at a 300+ person organization.
AI review
A management and organizational strategy talk with zero technical depth. Damco presents a reasonable framework for scaling security teams at startups, but there is no vulnerability research, no exploit development, no novel tooling, and no measurable technical contribution. The nine-box persona model is common sense dressed up as methodology.