Ep87: Kelly Shortridge
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Queue Editorial Board member Kelly Shortridge, Chief Product Officer at Fastly, where she previously served as VP of Security Products. Shortridge is the author of Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems (O'Reilly). An accomplished product executive, software innovator, and internationally recognized technical expert on resilience in complex systems, she is known for the application of behavioral economics, resilience, and DevOps principles to cybersecurity, and modernizing security programs.
Kelly explains what security chaos engineering is—and how it’s rooted in resilience engineering—building systems that can recover quickly from inevitable failures. She makes an argument that organizations should prioritize adaptability, redundancy, and recovery over prevention. She also encourages great collaboration between security and platform engineering teams. The conversation covers “metrics theater,” the cost-resilience tradeoff, why software has unique advantages for simulation that we're not leveraging, and where LLMs fit (and don't fit) in security workflows.
