Johan Sydseter

Johan Sydseter is one of the project leaders of OWASP Cornucopia and the co-creator of the OWASP Cornucopia Mobile App Edition, he is an application security engineer, developer, architect and DevOps practitioner. He has 17 years of experience building and designing backend and frontend solutions. He is also a regular contributor to Cornucopia. He has held several presentations on application security at various international conferences in the past and currently works as an application security engineer at Admincontrol AS a Visma subsidiary.

Johan Sydseter firmly believes that application security should be played, not preached. Rather than relying on slide decks and talking heads, he champions games as a way to create agency, empathy, community, and long-term learning, helping teams remember why security matters long after the session ends.

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OWASP Cornucopia

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