Tag: infosec

Day 1 – Tues June 11 2013: 3:30pm – “Keynote: How hackers operate: Live demonstrations of current methods of breaching networks and stealing information”, by Derrick Webber, penetration testing and digital forensics team lead, CGI Derrick demonstrated some practical applications of the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET). He demonstrated how to conduct a phishing attack to […]

Day 1 – Tues June 11 2013: 12:55pm – “Keynote: Changing landscape of risk” This presentation offered a high level survey of the changing risk landscape. I didn’t take many notes at this session. There was plenty of good discussion, but nothing noteworthy.

Day 1 – Tues June 11 2013: 11:45am – “Big Data” This presentation was a panel discussion discussing big data I didn’t take many notes at this session. There was plenty of good discussion, but nothing noteworthy. One funny quote from the session: “NSA’s Prism = the best data backup program ever.”

Day 1 – Tues June 11 2013: 10:55am – “Information security adaptation: Survival in an evolving threat landscape”, Carl Herberger, VP of security solutions, Radware This presentation (I couldn’t find his exact slides, but I found this alternate copy from this location) provided a great overview of the current threat landscape. The presentation offered great statistics […]

Day 1 – Tues June 11 2013: 9:50am – “The Honey Stick Project: Opportunistic threats and human vulnerabilities”, Scott Wright, @streetsec, security coach and consultant, Security Perspectives Scott’s presentation was one of my favourites at SC Congress 2013. Here’s a summary of Scott’s presentation: In 2011, an experiment was conducted where “lost” smartphones were allowed […]