Visit our new website for the show: www.SecureMaryland.org
Some Security Meet-ups in the Baltimore area:
CharmSec (meets the last Thursday of every month 7pm) – www.charmsec.org
The Ethical Hackers Club (TEHC) (first wed of the month – columbia MD) – http://www.meetup.com/ethical-hacker-club/
Hosts:
Raymond Gabler: Overall tech geek with over 15 years of experience in the Information Security/Risk Threat management side of IT.
Shawn Grimes from Shawn’s Bits.com . I’ve been a Security Engineer for about the last 10 years and I can be found on twitter at @shawng
Brandon Dixon is from 9b+ and George Washington University. I work as a security researcher and incident responder. I can be found on twitter @9bplus and blog at blog.9bplus.com
Topics
A) We’re back here is to hoping everyone had a good new year and holiday season.
B) I wanted to discuss a Review of 2011 and predictions for 2012 below
The BAD:
- Worst security Threat in 2011 – RG: Application attacks that leverage “non-OS” (JAVA, PDFs, flash, etc.), BD: exploit kit development and improvements
- Worst Breach in 2011 – RG: Playstation, BD: H.B Gary
- Trends you want to see stopped – RG: selling on FUD -never going to happen but what the heck might as well talk about it, BD: wrong focus
The GOOD:
- What have you seen in 2011 that helped with Security – RG: community software that was previously for sale only, BD: Sandbox technology
- Trends started in 2011 that you would like to see continued/grow: – RG: Meetups and sharing of information with the community much like we do here on SecureMD and “Hacktivism”, BD: Focus on targeted attacks
The PREDICTIONS
- What do you think the next big exposure is going to be in 2012 – RG “non-computer” computers (eg.embedded systems), BD: cloud-based solution leaks
- What would you like to see more of in 2012 – RG: stop over selling of Cloud security – everyone is jumping on the band wagon and they aren’t all experts 🙂 , BD: more focus on the full threat and not just the malware