What Permaculture Design Taught Me About Security
by Laura Wratten | - 2:15pm
When I bought a house in regional NSW last year, I started learning about permaculture: a design framework for creating sustainable, resilient environments. It’s about gardening, sure, but it’s also about systems thinking, people care, and knowing when to intervene (and when to let the ladybugs sort it out themselves).
As it turns out, permaculture has a lot to say about security work too. In this talk, I’ll share what designing a garden taught me about designing safer systems, how principles like “observe and interact,” and “use edges and value the marginal” show up in everyday AppSec work, and why the best security lessons sometimes come from the compost heap.
About Laura Wratten
Laura is an Application Security Engineer based in regional NSW. She lives with her rescue greyhound and a flock of chickens, and spends her time gardening, fermenting, yelling at auth specifications, and acquiring new hobbies (most recently: ballet).