ISSA-LA Security Summit 2024

The cybersecurity landscape is filled with illusions.

Traditional defenses focus on building ever-higher walls, but attackers are constantly innovating ways to bypass them. This talk explores the concept of the "Cybersecurity Mirage," where seemingly robust defenses offer a false sense of security; moreover, companies continue to spend billions of dollars chasing something that is not attainable. So many worry about the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), but they need to start with the Basic Persistent Threat. We need a paradigm shift and accept that the way we have been doing security is flawed and broken and to continue this way is the true definition of insanity.

Join me as I show empirical evidence of simple ways to confuse and frustrate attackers once they have broken through the existing flawed security solutions and embark on the path of Proactive Resilience. We will accomplish this with simple and easy to do network tricks that for some reason have been forgotten! It is time to remember them again!