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Dr Katie Paxton-Fear is an Application Security Engineer at Bugcrowd, a Lecturer and a Security Researcher. Her PhD was titled “Understanding Insider Threats Using Natural Language Processing” and has published her research into insider threats and particularly how to better understand insider threats using a holistic approach. Passionate about education and security she creates video lectures enabling others to grow in security, with over 50 videos and 30,000 subscribers on YouTube in a little over a year. A former developer and data scientist, she finds her success is directly related to being able to understand the technical and human aspects of security.