John Aron, letters of marque, what does a "junior" job look like with AI?

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Guest Bio: John is the CEO of Aronetics. An avid climber and runner, John has spoken at many conferences about topics like ZeroTrust, BIOS/UEFI security, communication security, and malware. Aronetics is a technology-enabled service provider. 

 

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Show Topic Summary:

 

John joins us to discuss “letters of Marque” in an effort for hackers to ‘hack back’... the overreliance on automation, and communication siloes. We also talk about what a ‘junior position’ in infosec looks like with AI doing all the “Level 1 SOC Analyst” type roles normally given to someone fresh to the security industry.

 

Questions and topics:

1. Is infosec over reliant on automation? Automation comes with its own challenges.

   1. Documentation woes

   1. Automation is usually found in userland

 

Aronetics’ Thor provides defense and counter-offense tamper-proof technology digitally tied to 

 

Letter of Marque - good idea, or geopolitical disaster waiting to happen?

Siloes and communication -best ways to overcome those in an org and outside?

How do we overcome siloing?

 

Overcoming security challenges?Identity management - 2FA is everywhere, there’s already ways around 2FA, so what now? 3FA? Biometrics? Make everyone carry around physical tokens that we can lose?

 

Blog post: https://www.aronetics.com/post-quantum-cryptography/ What do we need to protect against? Nation states with quantum computers? Rubber hose cryptography?

 

Crime thrives in areas of low visibility. https://www.aronetics.com/unknown/ 

 

https://www.aronetics.com/inside-the-breach/ (threat detection - the crime thrives in low vis areas)

 

Show points of Contact:

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Amanda Berlin: @infosystir@infosec.exchange (Mastodon) @hackershealth 

Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned

Bryan Brake: @bryanbrake on Mastodon.social