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Hostile tools aren't a badge of honour: UX for security engineers

Chris Horsley & Lilith La Rose
2026-10-14 9:00 am
Breakout
Hacking, Red Teaming
Tool Development, Bug Bounty and Vulnerability Research

Good user experience is a technical requirement for security tooling, not window dressing, and this talk offers low-cost ways to test and improve it.

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Chris Horsley is CTO and co-founder of Cosive, specialising in cyber threat intelligence sharing and MISP initiatives for security operations teams.
Chris Horsley
CTO
Cosive
Chris Horsley is CTO and co-founder of Cosive, specialising in cyber threat intelligence sharing and MISP initiatives for security operations teams.
Lilith La Rose, security and DevOps engineer at Cosive, presents on why hostile tools aren't a badge of honour and what UX should mean for security engineers.
Lilith La Rose
Security / DevOps Engineer
Cosive
Lilith La Rose, security and DevOps engineer at Cosive, presents on why hostile tools aren't a badge of honour and what UX should mean for security engineers.

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