Slaying Dragons Together: Women in Security (Panel)
Stanley Barr, Mary C Yang, Leslie Z Anderson
BSidesSF 2025 — Here Be Dragons · Day 2 · Main
MITRE researchers Stanley Barr and Leslie Anderson, alongside marketing strategist Mary Yang, used the origin stories of MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE Engage to illustrate a broader thesis: complex security problems require multidisciplinary teams, and building those teams is a deliberate, ongoing process that starts years before any framework is published. The panel also introduced MITRE's early-stage work applying ATT&CK-style threat-informed defense to internet-enabled crimes against children.
AI review
The ATT&CK and Engage origin stories are genuinely worth knowing — the ten years of silent deception operations before RSA 2018, the UX expert brought in before the framework had taken shape, the single-defender-viewpoint decision that was hardest to achieve. The MITRE branding is heavy throughout and the 'multidisciplinary teams matter' thesis undersells the actual interesting content.