Information Security Group of Africa, meeting 9

Today we (Deloitte) hosted the ISGA (formerly WhiteHat) meeting. I was in charge from Deloitte's side. Apart from a few hiccups related to broken amps and late coffee it went off fairly smoothly. I got the chance to present, my presentation was entitled: "Threat Monitoring: Reading Risk the Wrong Way".

It basically provides a justification as to why threat monitoring is important, and how people ignore the "threat" component of the risk equation. A component of threat monitoring is having decent threat models. For this I discussed how security researchers have gotten the vulnerability life cycle wrong, and provided a corrected model based on combining the conclusions of several researchers.

The slides can be found here.