Speaker Bio

Talesh Seeparsan

Cybersecurity & Generative AI Security

With over a decade of expertise in cybersecurity, Talesh is a recognized leader in safeguarding high-revenue enterprises. His accomplishments include work with the U.S. Department of Defense, developing application security training for Adobe, and securing customer identity for multibillion-dollar companies. Today, he helps organizations fortify their generative AI security by establishing trusted models, architectures, and frameworks for LLM applications. His north star is the safe, performant adoption of frontier AI and large language models.

“Good application security is like washing your hands. You should do it often. However, be aware that if all you're doing is washing your hands, you can't use them as hands.”

— paraphrased, author unknown (still searching)

A simple reminder that the best strategy is to work backwards from customer and business needs when defining application security strategy.

01 Past Presentations

2015
  • Meet Magento NYC — A Trailmap for Magento Security
  • Meet Magento Spain — What is an Incidence Response plan and how to prepare one for your store
2016
  • Magento Imagine — Security Arms race OWASP Top Ten
  • Magento Imagine — Business Leaders Security panel
  • Magento Developers Paradise — Leveraging Magento features to defend against the OWASP Top Ten
  • MageStackDay — Strategies for Zero Day vulnerabilities in your Magento store
  • Meet Magento Poland — Building custom security logging for your eCommerce store
  • Magento Unconference Netherlands — OWASP Top Ten + Defense strategies
  • Meet Magento Spain — Proactive Security Strategies for staying on top of threats
  • Meet Magento Japan — Static Analysis Security Testing for eCommerce stores
2017
  • Meet Magento Croatia — Dynamic Analysis Security Testing workshop using OWASP ZAP
  • Magento Live India — The first steps to building secure Magento sites
2018
  • Meet Magento Italy — The Hound of the Malwarevilles
  • Meet Magento Singapore — Security conversations you should be having with your engineers
  • Meet Magento Dubai — Security conversations you should be having with your engineers
  • Meet Magento Poland — Patterns of Credit Card Malware
  • Defcon 416 — Patterns of Credit Card Malware
2019
  • Magento Imagine — Lessons in Fortbuilding
2020
  • BSides Vancouver — The story of Magecart: How we bred powerful gangs (cancelled due to pandemic)
  • Adobe Summit — A Flat-Earther's Guide to PWA Security (cancelled due to pandemic)
  • Adobe Summit — Magento Security for Developers training workshop
  • Connect Conference — Shared responsibility and PCI Compliance
  • Connect Conference — Magento security panel
2021
2022
  • Meet Magento UK — Static Analysis for Security
  • Meet Magento NYC — Your code is secure, but what about everything else?
2023
  • Meet Magento NYC — Is AI coming for my Magento Job?
  • YMCA Western Canada — AI in Organizations: Perils, Policies and Possibilities

02 Podcast Appearances

  • 2018Ecommerce Aholic — The State of the Magento Community and the Bug Bounty Program
  • 2019Core of Commerce — Building Better Security for Your eCommerce Site
  • 2021We Hack Purple — Ecommerce Security
  • 2022Swift Otter — Preventing Security Breaches
  • 2024Infosecurity Magazine — Mastering Software Supply Chain Security with Strategic Defense Mechanisms

03 Publications

04 Contributions