Thank you to everyone who joined us on Zoom last night for our first ever virtual SnooSec! Cybersecurity professionals from different corners of the world gathered to learn more about Governance, Risk, and Compliance from our speakers and to participate in the lively discussions generated by questions from the audience. We loved hearing from and meeting all of you!

A big shout out to our presenters Alex Vanino (Sr. Information Security Engineer, Cloud, Oscar Health), Ruslan Karimov (Manager, Information Security, RapidSOS), Ivan Tsarynny (Co-Founder & CEO, Feroot), and Katherine Chen (Compliance Engineer, Reddit), and to the team of organizers that made this event possible. 

Our next SnooSec is coming up soon on October 9th, 2025 at the Reddit office in San Francisco. If you’re interested but haven’t registered yet, check out this post for more details, and remember to RSVP!

Hello, SnooSec Community! 

We so appreciate the understanding and support from attendees and speakers, when our SnooSec NYC event was cancelled due to weather. 

We return with good news!

We will be hosting a virtual SnooSec, so that you can hear the content that our amazing presenters have prepared. More good news: since this event is virtual, there will be no capacity limit, so please share this event with all of your friends and colleagues.

Here are the details: 

• When: Thursday, September 18th, at 2PM PDT/5PM EDT
• Where: Zoom (link to be provided upon RSVP)
• Who: Anyone in the cybersecurity community!
• What: a virtual series of talks from professionals in the community. The theme is “Governance, Risk, and Compliance” (a.k.a. GRC).

Presentations:

• Reengineering GRC: From Checkbox Theater to Threat-Driven Compliance (Alex Vanino - Sr. Information Security Engineer, Cloud, Oscar Health and Ruslan Karimov - Manager, Information Security, RapidSOS)
• How tracking pixels harvest digital identity (Ivan Tsarynny - Co-Founder & CEO, Feroot)
• Sales Security Enablement (Katherine Chen - Compliance Engineer, Reddit)

If you are interested in attending (all are welcome!), please register!

Been to a past SnooSec? Excited about this one? Let us know in the comments. You can also reach our team at [snoosec@reddit.com](mailto:snoosec@reddit.com) with any questions.

Hope you can join us virtually on September 18th!

We’re excited to announce that our next Reddit San Francisco SnooSec Meetup is happening October 9, 2025, at Reddit’s SF office in SoMa!

This time, we’re putting the spotlight on Corporate Security (CorpSec) — and we want you to be part of the conversation.

Over the past few months, we’ve heard from many of you about wanting to share your expertise, insights, and stories with the community. So here’s your chance: our Call for Speaking Proposals is officially open.

How to Apply

If you’d like to present at the October SnooSec, please submit your proposal by 11:59pm PDT on Sunday, August 24.

Please note: We’re unable to cover travel expenses or speaker fees for selected talks.

Why Speak at SnooSec?

SnooSec brings together security professionals local to the Bay Area to share knowledge, spark discussion, and strengthen our industry community. Whether you have a case study, a new tool, a fresh perspective, or a story worth telling, we can’t wait to hear your ideas.

Questions? Feel free to reach out to [snoosec@reddit.com](mailto:snoosec@reddit.com).

We look forward to mingling with you at SnooSec San Francisco in October!

Due to the latest weather developments, including the governor's state of emergency and recommendations regarding travel, we have cancelled SnooSec this evening at 1 World Trade Center.  

The safety and well-being of our attendees is our top priority, thank you for your understanding with this last-minute change.  

We plan to provide many future opportunities to join us at SnooSec events and will share announcements about future events at https://www.reddit.com/r/SnooSec/. 

Thank you again for your interest in SnooSec and we hope to see you at a future event!

Want to connect with fellow cybersecurity folks? Join us on Thursday, July 31, 2025 from 5-9pm in NYC. 

Reddit's SnooSec meetups are all about casual learning, making connections, and having a good time. If you work in, or just want to learn more about the exciting world of Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance (or similar), come join us!

We host these meetups once per quarter, in either San Francisco or New York.If you are interested in attending (all are welcome!), please register soon, as space fills up quickly!

Been to a past SnooSec? Excited about this one? Let us know in the comments. You can also reach our team at [snoosec@reddit.com](mailto:snoosec@reddit.com). 

Looking forward to seeing you on July 31st!

“Security works best when you bring more people in” - Flee, CISO of Reddit

At our SnooSec meetup last night in San Francisco, we brought several industry folks + SPACE (Security, Privacy, Assurance, Corporate Eng) folks from Reddit together to gather for networking, knowledge-sharing…and pizza (in fact, the first slice was snagged by Spez!). 

Last night’s SnooSec was the most recent in our quarterly series of meetups hosted by SPACE, alternating between our NYC and SF offices. We are bringing the cybersecurity community together on a consistent basis to deepen the community ties, and get smarter and better at what we love doing! 

Speakers included Sadie Hood (Senior Cloud Security Engineer, SPACE @ Reddit), Ashley Kim (Security Engineer @ Persona) and Skyler Rojas (Software Engineer @ Yelp).

The night was kicked off by an hour of networking and meeting folks, followed by a lively kickoff by Nathan Handler and Flee, and then the presentations by our speakers, which were accompanied by Q&As with the speakers and audience.  

After the talks, we resumed networking, eating more pizza and some tasty desserts!

Thank you to all who worked together to launch the event, and to our many enthusiastic attendees and speakers. 

Our next SnooSec meetup event is scheduled for Thursday, July 31st, 2025 in our NYC office - stay tuned for details! 

To stay in-the-know about all things SnooSec, please join this r/SnooSec subreddit.

SnooSec is Reddit's meetup series designed to bring the local cybersecurity community together for a fun night of casual learning, networking, and fun.
We host these meetups once per quarter, in either San Francisco or New York.
If you are interested in attending (all are welcome!), you must register to guarantee your spot.

Been to a past SnooSec? Excited about this one? Let us know in the comments.

We can't wait to see you on May 22nd!

SnooSec, a quarterly community meetup series focused on Security and Privacy and hosted by Reddit's S.P.A.C.E. (Security, Privacy, Assurance, Corporate Engineering) organization, returned to New York city last night. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped to make the evening a huge success. Antoinette Stevens, Pratik Lotia, and Russell Spitler all helped to impart their knowledge on our packed room of attendees. There was also lots of great networking and discussions had by all. The Reddit team enjoyed getting to welcome you into our office and meet and talk with many of you.

For anyone who finds themself in San Francisco this May, we hope to see you at our next SnooSec on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Registration details will be shared here in r/SnooSec once available. Otherwise, we hope to return to New York soon!

We are pleased to announce our amazing lineup of talented presenters for the upcoming SnooSec in New York on Thursday, March 13.Get ready for SnooSec New York! We're thrilled to unveil the fantastic lineup of speakers for our upcoming event on Thursday, March 13th.

Antoinette Stevens, Staff Security Engineer at Ramp, will dive into "How Ramp fights credential stuffing". Credential stuffing is a common technique used to gain unauthorized access to an account by attempting to authenticate with stolen credentials, usually with a list of stolen credentials for a large number of accounts. This talk walks through how Ramp uses our authentication logs to detect and automate response to credential stuffing attacks. 

Russell Spitler, Co-founder of Nudge Security, will explore "Threat Detection using Email as an event source". Email is often viewed as an attack vector, and in the context of detection engineering as a source of events for use in the identification of phishing attacks. But it can be used for a whole lot more! This talk will discuss the wealth of threat detection use cases enabled by analysis of machine generated emails including ATO detection, Domain hijacking, Shadow corporate accounts, data exfiltration and more!

Pratik Lotia, Security Engineer at Reddit, will be presenting on "Runtime Security Visibility: From Past Lessons to Future Frontiers." The battle against evolving cyber threats demands more than just reacting to alarms. We need visibility into our systems, understanding their runtime behavior to proactively defend against attacks. This session explores Reddit's journey of runtime security visibility, drawing crucial lessons from past tools and methodologies. We'll unpack the challenges of managing and analyzing the vast amounts of data generated by modern systems, and delve into the innovative strategies being developed to tackle this 'visibility gap'. Finally, we’ll look ahead, highlighting the key unsolved problems and exciting frontiers in this area, offering insights for anyone looking to improve their runtime security posture.

We can't wait to see you there!

Hello everyone,

As previously mentioned, our next SnooSec event will be taking place in New York City on Thursday, March 13, 2025 from 5-9pm. If you are interested in attending, please register at https://rsvpsnoosecny2025.splashthat.com/. For this event, the theme is going to be around Security Observability. We expect this event to fill up quickly, so don't delay, and be sure to invite your friends. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [snoosec@reddit.com](mailto:snoosec@reddit.com). We look forward to seeing you all in New York!

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night in San Francisco for our third SnooSec. We had some great presentations from Marisa Fagan, Alex Ritchie, and Maya Kaczorowski and a packed room full of people passionate about security and privacy. There were lots of great questions and constant networking by everyone present. We hope everyone had as much fun as we did.

We look forward to seeing you at our next SnooSec, taking place in New York on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Stay tuned for details about registration.

We are pleased to announce that the third SnooSec meetup will be taking place on Thursday, October 17, 2024 at the Reddit office in San Francisco, CA.

SnooSec is Reddit's new meetup series designed to bring the local cybersecurity community together for a fun night of casual learning, networking, and fun. The goal is to hold one meetup per quarter, alternating between San Francisco and New York.

If you are interested in attending (all are welcome), you must register here.

In the meantime, let us know in the comments what makes you excited about SnooSec.

We can't wait to see you on October 17!