Katie Paxton-Fear

"Dr. Katie Paxton-Fear is an API hacking expert, an educator through her InsiderPhD YouTube channel and Security Advocate at Semgrep. She has worked to help secure the world’s largest applications. Katie’s research roughly revolves around the intersection of AI/ML and Infosec, both in how AI/ML can improve security applications and processes, supporting practitioners rather than supplanting them and the security of AI/ML systems. Dr Katie has been a featured expert in the Wall Street Journal, BBC News, ZDNet, The Daily Swig and more. As she shares some of the easy way hackers can exploit APIs and how they get away without a security alert. Dr Katie regularly delivers API security training, security research, to some of the largest brands worldwide. She combines easy-to-understand explanations with key technical details that turn API security into something everyone can get."