Katie Paxton-Fear

Katie Paxton-Fear (InsiderPhD) is a technical marketing manager at Traceable but she's probably more well known for her hobby: In her free time she's a hacker, she's found 30+ vulnerabilities in real software in production right now! She got her start in security thanks to a mentorship at a live hacking event in 2019 where she found her first two bugs in Uber’s API, despite it being her first time hacking. After being invited to be mentee again in Vegas during DEFCON she found even more API bugs and once she got home she started making videos teaching others how to get into hacking. Now she makes videos for an audience of 70,000 subscribers teaching them all things hacking. Her speciality is access control and business logic issues, finding the vulnerabilities scanners miss!