It’s Human to make mistakes – and attackers are banking on it

Falling victim to a Social Engineering Attack, Accidental Damage caused by excessive permissions and Misconfiguration are all elements of Human Error that Attackers will exploit – and persistently have done so to date. In this session we review what approaches could be taken to prevent such mistakes but also, and perhaps more importantly, limit their impact. The last point being – should we assume it is human to make mistakes, and so they will continue to happen – therefore our strategy should initially focus on reducing the impact of such incidents? We therefore will discuss isolating attacks from the initial point of intrusion, controlling user privileges and some methods for reducing and identifying misconfiguration.