RSA Conference 2012 -- Zero Day: A Non-Fiction View - Mark Russinovich

Last year, Mark Russinovich published the cyber thriller 'Zero Day'; chronicling a terrorist scheme to unleash a cyber-apocalypse. In this session, Russinovich explains the scenario, tools, and techniques that the attackers would have used and their feasibility and risk with demonstrations and references to real-world incidents. He also proposes how we can defend systems against this threat. Spoiler alert!

SPEAKER: Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Windows Azure Group

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[So1ipse]

Nah, the /really/ sad thing is the cost of everything that can possibly be explored or played with receiving a paranoid lockdown. the cost of computers no longer doing anything that the software companies don't give you permission to do, the cost of no one except multinational companies being able to release new software and in general of computers no longer being under their owners control will far far far exceed even the worst conceivable disaster that could even potentially occur.

[Frank Flores]

Rogue terrorists organizations creating cyberwarfare superviruses, like the US and Israel who created Stuxnet for example...

[RvLeshrac]

The "incentive" for securing systems should be "we don't haul your ass off to jail and dissolve your company unless you fail to take basic security steps." When you provide financial incentives, corporations just find ways to not implement anything and still obtain the cash.

[NoShit12]

20:22 ~ 20:36 - Was i supposed to laugh ?

[Hikaru Katayamma]

Interesting talk. We'll see just how much good the regulations (if the are ever implemented) do. I do computer security work and am constantly fighting with large companies/organizations and their security policies. Nobody wants to tighten the screws to access for facebook, myspace, etc.