Hi Defcon

I’m Keri, nice to meet you.

I’m here with my newly founded (and 3rd!) internet show, Keri On Security.

First, a Brief History

In was a sunny day in the summer of 2007, it was a different time, a different internet…

JK!

I gave myself the summer to try making videos. I bought FinalCut Budget, taught myself how to edit, invented a show I called The Canadian Explorer, produced episodes, and uploaded.

I’ll sum up the premise here in 18 seconds, of song:

Turns out everyone also loves exploring, and I love having an internet show!

Fast forward to 2010 and 80 epodes later: I’ve been an accredited journalist for Sun Media, threw what was maybe the first ever ‘Blog Party’, covered the Van2010 Olympics, and was CBC’s inaugural made-for-web show, and more.

But that’s as far as one girl can on her own, so I shut it down on a high note last year.

Then I started KeriBlog. This show is scattered, no cohesive theme, I just throw up videos as I wish (like how I worded that?) By now, you can sit down and watch me for 7 edited hours.

All the meanwhile, I am plotting.

[insert dreamy audio effect] There has to be a way to single-handedly produce a profitable online video show… there just has to be…

And I can see it now! How to package and produce it, where the money and traffic will come from, it’s coming together like Tetris in my head.

Okay, but how’d you go from Canada and KeriBlog to… Infosec?

When so much of your life is online, the weirdos, you know… so I started having to investigate my computer.

Turns out infosec is highly addictive, and I have a knack for it.

What I love about it… that it’s all on you, it’s only as good as _you_ make it…. the quiet meditativeness of it, like video editing… that it’s a bit like a game… the strategy… the figuring it out and ways around and over… the thirst for more knowledge you all seem to have… and, in a way, infosec made me excited about the internet again,.

But looking around, and boy is there ever a gaping hole where an educational show should be.

I live in the centre of the techiest bubble in my country, and they are still looking at me with blank eyes in response to ‘change your pas?”. This is wrong.