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Epistemology. How’s that for a $6 word? In a nutshell, epistemology is the
philosophical study of belief, truth, and knowledge. As it turns out, sometimes
the things that we believe aren’t necessarily true… hard to believe, right? In
the infosec community, there are many closely held beliefs; strong passwords are
important, users are dumb, you can never be 100% secure, defense in depth is a
good thing, infosec is relevant, the conversations that happen twitter are
valuable, metrics are useless, and many more. However, understanding the
underlying truth can be challenging, especially when our beliefs are so
entrenched in our community and the definition of what it means to be a modern
day hacker. This talk will examine some foundational infosec beliefs and how
infosec is viewed by others. Through examples and a little logic, I hope to get
us a little closer to the truth underlying our industry. Yes it will be ranty,
yes there will be diagrams and charts and things. But hopefully this talk will
challenge your beliefs about our industry and how we tackle modern day security
problems. Bruce Potter Bruce Potter is the CTO and cofounder of Ponte Technologies. Mr. Potter has
extensive experience assisting clients who are dealing with advanced threats
against their IT infrastructure. Over the last several years, Mr. Potter has
lead teams focused on incident response and attack remediation, software
development of advanced defensive technologies, and IT security architecture and
purchasing strategy. Prior to founding Ponte Technologies, Mr. Potter held
several jobs focused on security and network operations including managing
advanced security solution delivery for Booz Allen Hamilton managing network and
security operations for Network Solutions and CTO for a transaction processing
startup in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Potter has coauthored a number of books
including ” 802.11 Security” and “Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security”
published through O’Reilly. Mr. Potter also regularly writes articles and
presents at a wide variety of security conferences. Mr. Potter is the founder of
The Shmoo Group of security, crypto, and privacy professionals. Through The
Shmoo Group, Mr. Potter assists with a number of open source projects and the
yearly ShmooCon security conference held in Washington, DC.
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