confidence 2014: brian wohlwinder: asymmetric defense “using your home-field advantage”
DESCRIPTION
This presentation will focus on leveraging knowledge of your own environment to defend yourself. Consciously identifying and building protections around key assets and information that an adversary would target, allows for the most effective protection for the enterprise. We will discuss several attack/defense scenarios, the associated systems and infrastructure involved and key areas to protect. We’ll also show how effort invested to enumerate critical assets can allow the defender to quickly prioritize actions for the greatest effect.TRANSCRIPT
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Asymmetric Defense: Using Your Home Field Advantage
May 28, 2014
Brian Wohlwinder
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ASYMMETRIC DEFENSE
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Home Field Advantage
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Using your Home Field Advantage
• Understand and define your environment
• Study your opposition
• Proactive Defense
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Your Environment
Team– Tactical skills– Strategically focused
Knowledge– System of systems
Plan– Response actions
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Event Relativity
White Noise
Informative
Indicative
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Who is your opponent?
Threat to target mapping– Depends on what you have…– patient, determined and smart
Focus efforts– Try to protect everything and you protect nothing
Monitor what is leaving your network– Easier said than done
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Proactive Defense
Proactive defense– The fun part
Go hunting
Do this smartly
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Using your Home Field Advantage
Understand your environment
Study your opposition
Proactive Defense
Own it
Become a rock star!
…it really is that easy.
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THANK YOU.
Brian Wohlwinder
Senior Threat Researcher
General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions
www.FidelisSecurity.com www.ThreatGeek.com