How to Save the Environment, or Why Nobody Takes Your Security Advice

SOURCE Boston 2014

Presented by: Dan Crowley (unicornFurnace)
Date: Wednesday April 09, 2014
Time: 17:00 - 17:30
Location: Library

Some security advice is bad, not because it doesn't fix the problem it's aimed at fixing, but because following the advice isn't actually reasonable. This talk will demonstrate through various pieces of advice on how to reduce your environmental impact how perfectly effective solutions to security problems can be mostly to completely useless in the real world.

Dan Crowley

Daniel (aka "unicornFurnace") is a Senior Security Consultant for Trustwave's SpiderLabs team. Daniel denies all allegations regarding unicorn smuggling and questions your character for even suggesting it. Daniel has developed configurable testbeds such as SQLol and XMLmao for training and research regarding specific vulnerabilities. Daniel enjoys climbing large rocks. Daniel has been working in the information security industry since 2004 and is a frequent speaker at conferences including Black Hat, DEF CON, Shmoocon, and SOURCE.


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