What Star Trek TNG Can Teach Us about the Future of Computer Security

Robert Hansen

Director of Product Management

Robert “RSnake” Hansen

Director of Product Management (Labs)

International presenter

Ran ha.ckers.org

Author– Website Security for Dummies– Detecting Malice– Cross-site scripting attacks

Hobbies– Breaking the web so you don’t have to

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Let me start by saying…

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Physical Security

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Transport and network security

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Made byHaewei

Drive encryption and the insider threat

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PCI Still Doesn’t Work In the Distant Future

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Biba and Bell La-Padula

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The Singularity is a Non-event

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We lose our battle for Privacy

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Single Points of Failure

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Firemen are more glamorous than Cops

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Agile development

Virtualization

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Surveillance and Advertising

Blacklists

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The Prime Directive

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Robert Hansen

Director of Product Management @ WhiteHat

@RSnake