Track: Security: Lessons Learned From Being Pwned

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The Cyber is the Abominable Snow Monster chasing you down your perfect ski run. People get eaten by The Cyber every week. Most talk endlessly about the ever more ways it has developed of coming out of nowhere at and ruining your metaphorical SkiFree highscore. Instead, we talk about the times we almost got eaten whole, and, together we will learn how to fight it.

Track Host:
Christina Camilleri
Penetration Tester & Social Engineer @BishopFox
Christina Camilleri is a Security Analyst at Bishop Fox, a security consulting firm providing IT security services to the Fortune 500, global financial institutions, and high-tech startups. Christina’s primary areas of expertise are web application penetration testing, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and social engineering -- not only the psychological and physical involvement of social engineering, but also the manipulation and social influencing techniques that are able to exploit the behavior of others. She has attended and presented at local and international conferences on social engineering and has won highest scoring OSINT report for two years in a row in the DEFCON Social Engineering CTF. She’s an active and passionate contributor in the infosec industry, and a strong believer in user privacy, free expression, and innovation. Prior to joining Bishop Fox, Christina worked as an associate and senior information security consultant at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, where she primarily concentrated her efforts in social engineering, digital forensics, and application and infrastructure penetration testing.

Trackhost Interview

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What types of projects and questions are you focused on?
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My specialty is social engineering and web application pentesting. I really enjoy looking at the human side of security as people usually get so caught up in focusing on the technology side of security and tend to forget about the people that are behind it.

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Who is your target persona?
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Developers with a security interest - those who want to hear about the breaking but also about the fixing moving forward. We’ll look at how developers and security people have moved past the mistakes and focus on how to more effectively move on with addressing security issues.

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What are you goals for the track?
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Sharing real world attacks and mistakes made on both the org and individual's perspective, as well as addressing overcoming the circular hatred between development and security processes. Developers build great programs and hackers break them - that much we know all too well. Mistakes happen, things go wrong - what’s important is what we do with what we learned and how we prevent similar vulnerabilities to appear again.

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What do you want someone to leave from your track with?
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I hope someone walks away from this track with a better understanding of the value of security for them, as a developer and their organisation. For security folk, to better understand that problems do happen, and what we’ve learned moving forward.

10:35am - 11:25am

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2:55pm - 3:45pm

by Wim Remes
CEO/Principal Consultant @NRJSecurity & Board Member (ISC)²

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4:10pm - 5:00pm

by Joe DeMesy
Security Associate @BishopFox

Authors: Shubs Shah, Matt Bryant, and Joe DeMesy

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