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Canary: Keeping Your Digital Assets Safer

Rob BathurstJeff Thomas

Rob Bathurst and Jeff Thomas explore deploying honeytokens and canary files to detect unauthorized lateral movement and insider threat access early.

Summary

Architecture and Background

We will present our research into the technical and political problems underlying SSL/TLS. We will also demonstrate a tool, currently called “Canary”, that will allow all types users to validate the digital certificates presented by services on the Internet.

Vulnerability Analysis

Evilrob is a Security Engineer and Penetration Tester with over 14 years of experience with large network architecture and engineering. His current focus is on network security architecture, tool development, and high-assurance encryption devices.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

He currently spends his days contemplating new and exciting ways to do terrible things to all manner of healthcare related systems in the name of safety. xaphan is a "Senior Cyber Security Penetration Testing Specialist" for a happy, non-threatening US government agency.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

He has been a penetration tester for 17 years, but maintains his sanity with a variety of distractions. He is the author of several ancient and obsolete security tools and the creator of DEFCOIN.

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