Blogs

InfosecGirls Session - 30th August, 2025

Topic: Secure defaults in platform engineering — golden paths, paved roads, and how security teams partner with internal developer platforms.

Summary

Golden paths: opinionated templates with security baked in from day one.
Paved roads vs guardrails: when to mandate controls vs guide adoption.
Metrics platform teams care about: time-to-deploy, rollback safety, and drift detection.
Collaboration model: security as platform customers and co-designers, not gate-only.

Empowering Women in Cybersecurity: Breaking Barriers & Staying Secure

InfosecGirls Session - Empowering Women in Cybersecurity

Topic: Empowering Women in Cybersecurity: Breaking Barriers & Staying Secure

InfosecGirls Session - 12th July, 2025

Open community meet: mid-year check-in on learning goals, conference season debriefs, and lightning talks from members.

Summary

Lightning rounds (five minutes each) on tools and lessons learned this year.
Conference and CTF season tips: budgeting travel, volunteering, and note-taking.
Mid-year goal reset: what to drop, what to double down on, and rest as a priority.
Sign-up sheet for autumn session hosts and first-time speakers.

InfosecGirls Session - Building a Career in Information Security GRC

Topic: Building a career in Information Security GRC (governance, risk, and compliance).

InfosecGirls Session - 17th May, 2025

Topic: LLM security for builders — prompt injection basics, data leakage risks, and guardrails when shipping AI-assisted features.

Summary

Threat overview for apps that call external or hosted language models.
Prompt injection and indirect injection in RAG and tool-calling flows.
Data handling: minimising sensitive context in prompts and logging redaction.
Practical guardrails: output policies, human review hooks, and abuse monitoring.

InfosecGirls Session - 29th March, 2025

Presenter:

Speaker: Lekshmi Nair and Lopa Mudra Basu

Venue: Cyware Labs India Pvt. Limited UrbanVault, 762, 19th Main Rd, Parangi Palaya, Sector 3, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102

Summary

In-person session hosted at Cyware Labs in HSR Layout, Bengaluru.
Joint session with speakers Lekshmi Nair and Lopa Mudra Basu.
Community connect in a vendor-neutral learning space.
Opportunity for local members to meet peers face-to-face after the virtual-heavy years.