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Top Ten Challenges of Securing Smart Infrastructure Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP, CCSP, CPA I am Niloufer Tamboly I am a risk management professional and help companies manage risk, execute cybersecurity strategy and accept risks appropriately

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Top Ten Challenges

  • f Securing Smart

Infrastructure

Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP, CCSP, CPA

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I am Niloufer Tamboly

I am a risk management professional and help companies manage risk, execute cybersecurity strategy and accept risks appropriately based on quantified risk appetite. I am the organizer of the largest cybersecurity career MeetUp group. Since 2012, I’ve coached IT professionals transition to a career in cybersecurity. Connect with me on LinkedIn!

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Why Do I Care?

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What is smart infrastructure?

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Usability, not Security, is the focus

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Can’t identify or predict users environment

▸ Smart devices are ubiquitous so it

is diffjcult to identify or predict the users environment.

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Participants

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People

The User Shared Responsibility

Process

Vendor Diversity Security Operations Integrated Architecture

Systems

Resilient network

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Smart Infrastructure May Not Be Critical Instructure

▸ Identify the critical information and the infrastructure

because they may not be easily apparent.

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Devices Are Mobile

▸ Due to the small form factor,

devices are mobile and not all supporting infrastructure may be secure.

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Not All Smart Devices Are The Same

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Hardware Security

▸ Cost, Data, Life of Device

Considerations

▸ How much security can you expect

from a $10 device?

▸ What type of data is stored,

processed and transmitted?

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Using Standards of Yesterday

▸ This includes mistakes made years ago, but were only

recently discovered or disclosed which can have big implications in the future.

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High Level of Customization

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Increased Connectivity

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Evolving Threats

▸ New threats come up once a product

is released. ▸ Unknown unknowns

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Customer Engagement

▸ Educating the customer

and making them aware and engaged for security

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What Can We Do?

▸ Encourage users to participate ▸ Apply patches, firmware updates

timely

▸ Secure physical access to build a

defensive environment

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Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: ▸ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival ▸ Illustrations by Sergei Tikhonov ▸ Photographs by Unsplash

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