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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