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Kelly Shortridge

Chief Product Officer, Fastly

Kelly Shortridge is Fastly’s Chief Product Officer after leading Fastly’s Security business and serving in the Office of the CTO. Her experience spans B2B product leadership, entrepreneurship (as a startup founder with an exit to CrowdStrike), and investment banking (M&A covering the cybersecurity and AI sectors). Kelly is lead author of Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems (O'Reilly Media) and is best known as a leading-edge expert on software resilience, modernizing cybersecurity to align with platform engineering and DevOps approaches, and the application of behavioral economics to cyber defense. Kelly frequently advises Fortune 500s, investors, startups, and federal agencies and has spoken at major technology conferences internationally, including Black Hat, RSA Conference, and KubeCon. Her research has been featured in prestigious computer science journals like ACM, IEEE, and USENIX, spanning behavioral science in cybersecurity, deception strategies, and the ROI of software resilience. Kelly also serves on the editorial board of ACM Queue. Kelly holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Economics from Vassar College.

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  • Chaotic Good: Resilience Stress Tests at the Edge

    Kelly Shortridge

    Getting started with chaos experimentation? In this post, we’ll walk through a small starter example experiment – verifying basic security assumptions on a website.

    Compute
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  • Regex in retrograde

    Kelly Shortridge

    If we want to outmaneuver attackers, then we must progress beyond regex into a more modern era of detection.

    Industry insights
    Security
  • Deadlock bugs: circular waits of torment | Fastly

    Kelly Shortridge

    This post will illuminate how deadlock bugs emerge, some facets of their fascinating and frustrating strangeness, and guidance on how to handle them in your own systems.

    Security