Allyn Stott

Allyn Stott is a senior staff engineer at Airbnb. He currently works on the information security technology leadership team where he spends most of his time working on threat detection and incident response. Over the past decade, he has built and run detection and response programs at companies including Delta Dental of California, MZ, and Palantir. Red team tears are his testimonials.

In the late evenings, after his toddler ceases all antics for the day, Allyn writes a semi-regular, exclusive security newsletter. This morning espresso shot can be served directly to your inbox by subscribing at meoward.co.

Allyn has previously presented at Black Hat, Kernelcon, The Diana Initiative, Texas Cyber Summit, and BSides Berlin, Singapore, Toronto, Seattle, Orlando, St Pete, San Antonio, Charleston, and Atlanta. He received his Masters in High Tech Crime Investigation from The George Washington University as part of the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program.

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Sessions

06-08
14:30
45min
The Fault in Our Metrics: Rethinking How We Measure Detection & Response
Allyn Stott

Your metrics are boring and dangerous. Recycled slides with meaningless counts of alerts, incidents, true and false positives… SNOOZE. Even worse, it’s motivating your team to distort the truth and subvert progress. This talk is your wake-up call to rethink your detection and response metrics. You’ll get a practical framework for developing your own metrics, a new maturity model for measuring capabilities, and lots of visual examples of metrics that won’t put your audience to sleep.

In the Clouds
Track 3 (Moody Rm 102)