Attack Trends – Steve Riley

• Works for Amazon
• Start using automation to protect yourself
  • People makes mistakes
    • Configuration vulnerabilities
    • Example, build one box and copy it to the rest of servers.
• Complexity, that’s where they hide in.
• Attack progressions
  • Confidentiality, availability, integrity
• Patch asap if you wait to long, more provision has to be done
• Botnets
  • Used for spam
  • Schools get hacked all the time.
• It cost less to deal with exposure than fix the system.
• LOL TCP/IP over Avian Carriers
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
• Attackers follow a pattern
• Encrypt everything, encrypt it all.
• Think remote acces, not remote store.
• My thoughts:  We should start thinking about security.

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