"Random thoughts on security" Slidedeck from the short presentation for ISACA Belgiums NewYear event, Brussels 10th of january 2014.

1. RANDOM THOUGHTS ON SECURITY
Jan Guldentops, BA
ISACA BELGIUM New Year Event (Saturday January 10 2015)

2. The World is a dangerous place and will continue to
be so in 2015

3. Lots of people got hacked

4. Dataleaks in perspective
● Data Breaches in Europe: Reported Breaches of
Compromised Personal Records in Europe, 2005-2014
– 29 breaches , 645milj records
– 41% hackers, 57% organisation errors, internal abuse, internal
mismanagement
– 43% of all european citizens had their personal records leaked
– 56% of internet users
● http://cmds.ceu.hu/article/2014-10-07/data-breaches-
europe-reported-breaches-compromised-personal-records-
europe-2005

5. We are incredibly bad at assessing risks

6. We are all suckers
● Easily tricked into believing technologies
● Phising
– I really believe anyone can become the victim of a phising attack
● The ease people give up their privacy, put stuff in a
cloud they don’t know
● Optimism
– It is not always a moral duty !

7. What is so scary
● Foundation turned out not to be so sound
– SSL
● SSL
● Heartbeat
– Poodle
– BADSUSB
● Leaked data is actively mined !
– And not only by journalists
● New technologies and Hypes
– Internet of things, Cloud, “Big” Data, etc.

8. “It’s a valid business decision to accept the risk (of a
cyberattack), I will not invest $10 million to avoid a
possible $1 million loss.”
( Jason Spaltro – Sony )

9. There is hope
● Never been more :
– Security knowledge
– Security awareness
– Legislation
– Tools
– Frameworks / advice
– (Cool) technologies

10. Use your brain
● (Almost) everyone is
equipped with a brain
● Think !
● Question !
● Be critical
● Because common sense
is the most important
security solution there is

11. Thank You
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