Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Carson Zimmerman (Microsoft, US), Megan Roddie-Fonesca (Datadog, US)
Neurodivergent minds bring brilliant pattern matching, insightful results, and glorious weirdness to your cybersecurity team. This talk shows how to harness it all — no pity party required. Expect laughs, lived experience, and practical strategies for building teams that truly work.
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Carson Zimmerman is the Chief Architect of Microsoft’s Security Operations Center (SOC), where he leads strategic initiatives to advance global threat detection and response. He is co-author of 11 Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, a widely adopted guide available freely at mitre.org/11Strategies. Previously at MITRE, Carson’s career spans the full spectrum of SOC roles—from tier 1 analyst, to engineer, to investigator, to SOC team lead.
Megan Roddie‑Fonseca is a Security Engineer at Datadog specializing in digital forensics, incident response, and threat hunting. She holds multiple GIAC certifications and is a graduate of the SANS Technology Institute. Beyond her technical expertise, Megan advocates for mental health in the security community as CFO of Mental Health Hackers and mentors through Cyber Patriot. She has contributed to OpenSOC Blue Team CTF events at DEFCON, BSides, and other conferences, bringing a blend of hands‑on SOC experience and community leadership to her work.
Carson Zimmerman (Microsoft, US), Megan Roddie-Fonesca (Datadog, US)
Neurodivergent minds bring brilliant pattern matching, insightful results, and glorious weirdness to your cybersecurity team. This talk shows how to harness it all — no pity party required. Expect laughs, lived experience, and practical strategies for building teams that truly work.
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Carson Zimmerman is the Chief Architect of Microsoft’s Security Operations Center (SOC), where he leads strategic initiatives to advance global threat detection and response. He is co-author of 11 Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, a widely adopted guide available freely at mitre.org/11Strategies. Previously at MITRE, Carson’s career spans the full spectrum of SOC roles—from tier 1 analyst, to engineer, to investigator, to SOC team lead.
Megan Roddie‑Fonseca is a Security Engineer at Datadog specializing in digital forensics, incident response, and threat hunting. She holds multiple GIAC certifications and is a graduate of the SANS Technology Institute. Beyond her technical expertise, Megan advocates for mental health in the security community as CFO of Mental Health Hackers and mentors through Cyber Patriot. She has contributed to OpenSOC Blue Team CTF events at DEFCON, BSides, and other conferences, bringing a blend of hands‑on SOC experience and community leadership to her work.
