From Auditions to Opening Night: Selecting Security Tools that hits the high notes
Saurabh Sharma
BSidesSF 2026 · Day 2 · AMC Theatre 12
In the fast-paced world of cybersecurity, the allure of cutting-edge tools and zero-day exploits often overshadows a fundamental challenge: the successful selection and deployment of security solutions. Saurabh Sharma, a Founding Security Engineer at Lime, tackles this critical yet often-neglected topic in his BSides SF talk, "From Auditions to Opening Night: Selecting Security Tools that hits the high notes." Sharma candidly addresses the "security tools tragedy" – the common scenario where flashy vendor demos lead to expensive contracts, only for tools to languish unused, generating false positives, and draining team resources without delivering tangible value.
AI review
A competent, well-structured practitioner talk that addresses a real and underserved problem — security tool selection theater — with honest data from actual deployments. Nothing here is groundbreaking, but Sharma clearly lived this and isn't bullshitting you, which puts it ahead of half the 'lessons learned' content at any BSides.