Controlling Developers Minds Through First Principles and Engineering Models
DrydenMaker
SAINTCON 2025 · Day 1 · Main Track 3
This talk, presented by Alton Crossley (DrydenMaker), delves into a novel, Inception-themed approach to resolving the perennial friction between security teams and software developers. Crossley argues that traditional methods of imposing security requirements often lead to resistance and non-cooperation from development teams, who may perceive security as undermining their established empirical processes. His core thesis is that true security integration can only be achieved by "planting the inception" of security principles directly into developers' minds, making security an intrinsic motivation rather than an external mandate.