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Next up at #shmoocon (for me, at least) is The Hacker’s Guide to Cybersecurity Policy in 2020, with Jen Ellis, Nick Leiserson, Leonard Bailey, and Kurt Opsahl
Opsahl is general counsel at EFF, Leiserson is LD for Rep. Jim Langevin of Rhode Island, Bailey is special counsel for national security in DOJ's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section. Ellis does policy at Rapid7 and will moderate.
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.@infosecjen leads off noting that there were 96 bills with the word cybersecurity in the title in 2019 - and that's not abnormally high.
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#shmoocon.
It's #shmoocon day 2 in Washington D.C. I'm at "Battling Supermutants in the Phishing Wasteland," which should be interesting, given that I've only lightly skirmished with regular mutants in the Phishing suburbs of Chicago.
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This will be a talk from @ZeroFox folks on modern fishing techniques.
@ZeroFOX Scratch that.
"This talk is not really about phishing but the economy behind it," Zach Allen, dir. threat intel of Zero Fox.
Also speaking is Ashlee Benge, who does threat intel at Zero Fox and is also an astrophysicist.
"This talk is not really about phishing but the economy behind it," Zach Allen, dir. threat intel of Zero Fox.
Also speaking is Ashlee Benge, who does threat intel at Zero Fox and is also an astrophysicist.
Greetings from #shmoocon, the well-loved D.C. cybersecurity conference. I'll be live-tweeting selected talks and other goings-on over the next three days.
Here's what I definitely plan on being at, but I'll consider requests and bribes.
Here's what I definitely plan on being at, but I'll consider requests and bribes.
Shmoocon is one of my favorite local conferences - it's a great mix of quality and intimacy. You're as likely to see a senate aide discuss infosec policy priorities as then-White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce talk about his love of elaborate Christmas lights.
The latter example was real. And great. #shmoocon.
Thinking a lot about all the amazing conversations I had this weekend at #Shmoocon, and there’s one thing that kept coming up in some of them that I’d actually like to push back against publicly.
I keep hearing variants on “it’s my job to make people paranoid,” and “it’s my job to scare users so they don’t make mistakes,” and I can’t keep letting this ideology go unchallenged.
Maybe that really IS in your job description... but I think about poorly how fear and intimidation work as educational devices in other contexts, and don’t think security is any different.
