News stories about major data breaches have become increasingly common. Companies that are suffering from these breaches range from small startups to major multi-national corporations and even Federal government institutions. The blame gets pinned on a variety of actors including “hacktivists,” foreign governments and organized crime groups. Meanwhile, IT staff are dealing with vulnerability scan and penetration test report results containing long lists of susceptibilities with obscure names like: DoS, RCE, XSS and SQLi. We’re told that these vulnerabilities make our networks and applications insecure and that they put us at risk of being the next company in the headlines…but how does it all fit together and what does it really mean? This session wwas intended to help executives better understand the real-world risks that IT security teams warn us about. The presenter discussed the most common types of vulnerabilities, the potential consequences, who is exploiting them and what we can do to prevent them. 

 

Contributors: NTT Security
Categories: 2016 Fall - Carlsbad, Summit Presentations
SRC Type: Category Specific, Info Security, Information Technology (IT)