RANDOM THOUGHTS ON SECURITYJan Guldentops, BA
ISACA BELGIUM New Year Event (Saturday January 10 2015)
The World is a dangerous place and will continue to be so in 2015
Lots of people got hacked
Dataleaks in perspective
● Data Breaches in Europe: Reported Breaches of Compromised Personal Records in Europe, 2005-2014
– 29 breaches , 645milj records
– 41% hackers, 57% organisation errors, internal abuse, internal mismanagement
– 43% of all european citizens had their personal records leaked
– 56% of internet users
● http://cmds.ceu.hu/article/2014-10-07/data-breaches-europe-reported-breaches-compromised-personal-records-
europe-2005
We are incredibly bad at assessing risks
We are all suckers
● Easily tricked into believing technologies
● Phising
– I really believe anyone can become the victim of a phising attack
● The ease people give up their privacy, put stuff in a cloud they don’t know
● Optimism
– It is not always a moral duty !
What is so scary
● Foundation turned out not to be so sound
– SSL
● SSL ● Heartbeat
– Poodle
– BADSUSB
● Leaked data is actively mined !
– And not only by journalists
● New technologies and Hypes
– Internet of things, Cloud, “Big” Data, etc.
“It’s a valid business decision to accept the risk (of a cyberattack), I will not invest $10 million to avoid a
possible $1 million loss.” ( Jason Spaltro – Sony )
There is hope
● Never been more :
– Security knowledge
– Security awareness
– Legislation
– Tools
– Frameworks / advice
– (Cool) technologies
Use your brain
● (Almost) everyone is equipped with a brain
● Think !
● Question !
● Be critical
● Because common sense is the most important security solution there is
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