Think Different - A Jobsonian Look at Information Security

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Presented at BSidesPittsburgh 2014 by

Grecs

In the day-to-day drudgery of attempting to engineer secure systems or defend them, we blindly apply time tested security practices to solve the issues we come up against. All too often however we become complacent … and even sometimes lazy ... in how we do things. We accept the way things are done because that's they way they have always been done. But did we ever stop to consider why we do those things we are doing? And are they even relevant anymore? This talk examines the psychology of why we tend to stagnate as a human race, provides examples from other fields where others have successfully innovated with unique approaches, and presents several information security practices we need to toss aside along with their proposed alternatives.