Contact

Good reasons to reach out

Speaking. You want me at your conference, meetup, or podcast.

Something I wrote. You read a post here and want to argue with it. Those are my favorite emails.

Work. I’m the Head of Offensive Security at Xora (opens in new tab). For professional contact, starting here is fine and I’ll point you the right way.

Everything else. Career questions, a bug you can’t explain, film photography, motorcycles.

I’m on the usual platforms too, all listed on the follow page, but I don’t check them nearly as often as email.

Secure contact

If what you’re sending is sensitive, encrypt it. My public key lives at /assets/pgp.asc:

pub   ed25519/5E670E89BE72067C 2026-07-30 [SC]
      BE62 D08A B216 85A3 4E10  B79F 5E67 0E89 BE72 067C
uid   contact@ryanbasden.com

If you’ve found a problem with this site itself, that’s covered by /.well-known/security.txt.