📙 What a False Alarm Taught Us About Security as a 2-Person Startup 🔥

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Presented at BSides SF 2026 by

Alex Chantavy

Kunaal Sikka

Our new startup was doing great. We had just onboarded our first customers and closed our fundraise when disaster struck: the password on our production database had been changed! This is a story of how a false alarm humbled us through a full IR playbook as a 2-person startup, and what we learned.