Kathy Zant · Security · Technology · AI Governance
See what’s coming. Before it becomes a problem.
Zantastic is the consulting and advisory practice of Kathy Zant, bringing two decades of information security, WordPress at scale, and technology leadership to the decisions organizations are making about AI today.
THE THROUGHLINE
Technology changes. The failure patterns rhyme.
Learn how systems fail.
Nearly 5,000 hacked WordPress sites cleaned. Years spent inside real compromises, attacker behavior, remediation, and the uncomfortable gap between policy and what actually happens.
See what changes at ecosystem scale.
WordPress turned individual technical problems into ecosystem questions: disclosure, trust, incentives, governance, adoption, and decisions that affect millions of sites.
Apply the pattern before the crisis.
AI governance is the next version of a familiar problem: powerful technology moving faster than the systems organizations use to understand, control, and take responsibility for it.
EXPERIENCE, NOT ABSTRACTION
Built in the messy part of technology.
~5,000
hacked WordPress sites cleaned
CNA
Helped bring Defiant / Wordfence on as a CVE Numbering Authority with MITRE
Wordfence
Recognized as a top-performing security analyst; authored the malware cleanup process used by a leading WordPress security brand
20+ years
across information security, WordPress, technology leadership, education, and emerging AI governance
ADVISORY & CONSULTING
When the decision matters, bring experience into the room.
Zantastic works with leaders navigating decisions where technology, risk, governance, and real-world behavior overlap. The engagement follows the problem—not a predetermined service package.
AI governance & technology decisions
Practical governance, risk thinking, policy, adoption strategy, and the questions organizations should be asking before AI becomes embedded in critical workflows.
Security & WordPress strategy
Strategic security guidance informed by years of incident response and deep experience across the WordPress ecosystem—not routine maintenance or a development-agency engagement.
Executive perspective
An experienced outside voice for complex technology decisions, emerging risks, and situations where the obvious answer deserves another look.
SPEAKING & EDUCATION
Make the complicated useful.
Kathy speaks about security, AI governance, WordPress, and the human decisions behind technology—turning technically complex subjects into ideas audiences can actually use.
Is Your WordPress Site Legally Ready for AI?
AI governance, legal readiness, and what site owners need to understand as AI systems interact with the open web.
The Hacker Mindset
Understanding attackers by learning to recognize the assumptions, opportunities, and patterns they see.
Technology through a human lens
Keynotes, workshops, webinars, and conference sessions built around practical insight rather than abstract futurism.
A trusted technical educator
Years of talks and educational content across security, WordPress, leadership, and emerging technology.
KATHY ZANT
Technical enough to know what breaks. Strategic enough to ask why.
Kathy Zant has spent more than two decades working where security, technology, business, and human behavior meet. Her career has moved from cleaning compromised systems to helping shape security practices across the WordPress ecosystem, leading marketing for major WordPress products, and now examining how organizations can adopt AI without surrendering judgment, accountability, or control.
Zantastic is the umbrella for that work: consulting, advisory engagements, speaking, education, and the projects that don’t fit neatly into a single category.
Zantastic LLC
The best time to think about risk is before everyone agrees it’s a risk.
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