Barry frequently presents at conference talks, workshops, and webinars. Barry enjoys working with peers to share, empower, and entertain with live interactive sessions. Forty years of public speaking experience is reflected in the talks below. Crafted conference talks tuned to the organizer’s audience. The general theme for all the talks is to help people understand,
Category: Cyberwar
DDoS Extortionist’s Behaviors
Smart and prepared organizations use DDoS Extortionist’s Behaviors as a Defensive Tool. We have a long history of DDoS Extortionists. In the early 2000s, we had DDoS Extortionists who would threaten “gambling sites” with a DDoS Attack 30 minutes before a match. This crew was later tracked by law enforcement and arrested. DDoS Extortion has
Conficker Working Group – Archive of Materials
Conficker Still Survives! While public attention to Conficker has faded since the widely publicized April 1st, 2009 “attack date”, the fact is that a huge number of computer systems remain infected with Conficker. As recently as late October 2009, the number of systems infected with the A+B+C variants topped seven million. The Conficker Working Group
Expected DoS Attacks – 10 Steps to Prepare for the Pain
Version 1.0 It is time to prepare for Expected DoS Attacks. There is no perfect anti-DoS solution. But with forethought, planning, coordination, and practice any organization minimizes the impact of the DoS attacks. What follows ten essential steps that have proven to help organizations prepare for DoS attacks. The fundamental principles you will find in
Breakthrough IOT Security to Secure Smart Cities
The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) announced their latest IOT Security tool. Automated IoT Defence Ecosystem (AIDE) is a platform built for IOT vendors and researchers. IOT is powerful capability that will be developed by innovators all over the world. The 25 billion by 2021 is a drastic underestimate. The IOT security threat is also underestimated. Read More
What Stops a Nation-State BGP Hijack?
Can Nation-State BGP Hijack Parts of the Internet? Yes, a Nation-State BGP Hijack is a threat on the Internet. Nation-States can orchestrate the manipulation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) via “hacked routers all over the world. These routers would then be used to inject bad, misconfigured, or non-authorized routes all over the world. The result Read More
Security Organizations
There are many Security Organizations in the world all working towards the goal of a more secure & resilient Internet. This is an ongoing list of known security organization. Security Groups 10 Years and Older Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) – FIRST is the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams. The
BGP Hijacking News, Blogs, and References Articles
Why Review BGP Hijacking News? There is a lot of BGP Hijacking and routing mistakes covered by in the press. It is one of those “controversial” and “exciting” news items. BGP routing incidents (intentional and unintentional) are great press because they have risk imposed on all telecommunications which at times is outside of the control
Hardware & Software Vulnerabilities are Guaranteed
The long years of experience have taught me through experience, hardware & software vulnerabilities are guaranteed. It is not a matter of “if” but when. The sad reality is that most hardware and software vendors are not ready for vulnerabilities when they happen. Their response ranges from “I’m going to take legal suit” against the Read More
Meaningful Security Conversations with your Vendors
How does any organization have productive and meaningful security conversations? This guide offers a simple and meaningful security conversation guide. These conversations would help the organization determine the real security risk from their vendors. This is an updated version of a set of questions Operators (and vendors) can use to have these meaningful conversations. With