Day 2’s recap is going to be rather short and for that I apologize. I spent a good portion of the day tweeking and twiddling with my presentation. My presentation went well. No technical failures and I got all my points across. I would have been happier with it being a little smoother, but over all, I am happy.
I did manage to take in one of the keynotes, “The Underground Economy.” Andy Auld from SOCA and Keith Mularski from the FBI gave an interesting talk about how the computer crime economy works. They spoke about the different forms of malware and spam, digital currencies, exchangers and then talked about the organized criminal networks that they have come across. A very interesting talk even if a number of the slides where rather difficult to see.
The next session I attended was “Is IT Risk Management Just a Fad?”. I expected a talk that would compare and contrast what I call “checklist security” and information security risk management. Unfortunately, that was not the case and I did not really take anything away from this talk.
They final talk I attended was the “Collateral Hacking” panel. It consisted of moderator Hugh Thompson and panelists, Andrew Nash from PayPal, David Ostertag of Verizon Business Services and Ira Winkler of ISAG. From the description, the panel was going to talk about what happens when your co-tenant in a cloud is attacked, hence the title of Collateral Hacking. Unfortunately, it quickly lost its way and ended up being far off topic.
-Kevin
