What 10 Years of Drive Stats Data Can Tell Us
Andy Klein presents a decade of longitudinal Backblaze Drive Stats data, analyzing failure metrics, lifetime telemetry, and reliability trends across enterprise storage drives.
Summary
OSINT and Reconnaissance Techniques
This presentation covers open-source intelligence gathering and passive reconnaissance methodologies. The speaker demonstrates tools and techniques for discovering security-relevant information without direct system interaction, including data mining, web scraping, and information synthesis from public sources.
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