How To Write Like It's Your Job

You know how to hack all the things, and you do it well, but if you don’t write up your findings coherently, you’re not gonna get paid. If you accidentally insult or confuse your clients, you’ll have to spend time cleaning up messes instead of increasing your skills and advancing your career.

The consultants at Bishop Fox have the Editorial Department to back them up, but most security professionals don’t have an editor on call. So how can you take control of your writing without a dedicated person checking your work? After you write it, you must become the editor.

This talk will equip you with practical skills to clean up your emails today and level up your writing for the long term. Learn how to recognize your strengths and weaknesses as a technical writer, how to start and finish reports on time, and how to fix common typos that spell check won’t catch.

It’s frustrating to redo work. Check yourself before you wreck yourself so you can go home happy.

Brianne Hughes

As a former technical editor and now technical marketing writer for Bishop Fox, Brianne Hughes works with consultants to shape their findings and share their research. She compiled the style guide available at cybersecuritystyleguide.com and hosted SpellCheck: The Hacker Spelling Bee at DEF CON 26 and 27. She is Associate Executive Secretary for the DSNA, an Odd Salon Fellow, and she is on the board of directors at Wordnik.