RSA Keynote Francis deSouza

Francis deSouza Group President Products/Services Symantec – Building a higher level of security intelligence.

Start out with a tale of an breach – and identifying the difference between good guys and bad guys the asymmetic difference between them.

Reference some new publications and Stuxnet 0.5 (evidence of a possible precursor to Stuxnet).

paraphrasing here – “we are charged with securing systems that were never designed with security in mind” – with this in mind we will never be able to catch up. Systems must be built with security principals in mind.

They are seeing the growth of “bullet proof” command and control systems – allowing the service to come commodization sample given was $85/month.

Big Data = Big Intelligence understanding whats going on in the threat landscape. They are getting more intel on attacks as they are run.  = situational awareness can become more proactive – giving users insights to potential threats based on Big Intelligence. I would like to see this in action – I think it will be a while yet before this is a reality.

Big Intelligence  will also allow companies to determine what is normal – and to have the ability to react when you see an anomally. To me this is key you need to know when something is wrong.

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