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From Developer To Accidental Penetration Tester
- Laura Bell-Maine accidentally moved into security after a manager pushed her toward a basement team that 'finds bugs all day'.
- Her background spans 15–20 years writing software (real-time radiation monitoring, PHP) before becoming a penetration tester and AppSec leader.
Why AppSec Must Live Inside Engineering
- Security became a separate function because it arrived after systems and often came from networking/defense backgrounds, not dev teams.
- As architectures decentralize and systems run 24/7, security must sit inside engineering like observability or accessibility.
Amiga Floppy Piracy Taught Early Security Lessons
- Laura recalls her Amiga 500 childhood where floppy-disk game piracy and modding taught early lessons about users altering systems.
- She uses that memory to illustrate that people have always repurposed technology for gain, long before modern networks.