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Obviously, the work I've been doing with Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has given me a heap of insight into this specific area of infosec over the last 4 years and the folks from DC felt my views on things might be helpful. That was all great and I was happy to share my thoughts from the other side of the world.
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How exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the infosec skills gap and what kinds of security work are still best left to humans? In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another.
How exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the infosec skills gap and what kinds of security work are still best left to humans? In 2016, Professor Brumley and a team of students from CMU were victorious in DARPA's first ever Cyber Grand Challenge that pitted automated cyber defense technologies against one another.
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held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. He responsibly reported this to the Georgia Secretary of State, but the issue wasn’t really addressed until after the 2016 election. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.
held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. He responsibly reported this to the Georgia Secretary of State, but the issue wasn’t really addressed until after the 2016 election. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.
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held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. He responsibly reported this to the Georgia Secretary of State, but the issue wasn’t really addressed until after the 2016 election. Halderman : In 2010, Washington D.C.
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So most of our apps are mostly upside tests over the internet. I joined a Discord server called InfoSec prep. I discuss this in greater detail in EP 44, where the SAN Institute is deliberately looking to hire people without CS degrees into the infosec world. TIB3RIUS: Well, actually, yeah, it depends. People like me.
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