Next Generation Enterprise Security

Ground Floor, 18:00 Wednesday The single best way Humans transfer knowledge is through stories. We are a social species and there are no better stories than Star Trek episodes. Nearly every episode of Star Trek involves some sort of security inciden...

Ground Floor, 18:00 Wednesday

The single best way Humans transfer knowledge is through stories. We are a social species and there are no better stories than Star Trek episodes. Nearly every episode of Star Trek involves some sort of security incident. Everything from someone stealing data (or Data), insider threats, APT, malware, and more.

Even though the stories are fictitious, we can use them to help tell a story. We can start to ask questions like who is the biggest insider threat the ship faces: Data or Wesley? Why is security so terrible, does Worf ever do his job? Have these people ever heard of two factor authentication? Maybe the holodeck should be sandboxed!

Our industry is one of very serious questions and discussions, but sometimes you can be too serious. Rather than focus on serious security lessons, let’s have some fun. There are a lot of lessons to be learned in Star Trek TNG episodes.

In this session we are going to break down the security themes in Star Trek. Who are threat actors. Who are defenders. What are some mitigations that could be applied. There are many examples of recurring incidents because nobody fixed the problem the first time.

Josh Bressers