Automated Human Vulnerability Scanning With AVA
0It will not be a surprise to you that of all the elements within our organisations and systems, the people are most likely to expose us to risk. In short we are a mess of emotional unpredictablity that threaten us all (and security professionals are the worst of the bunch).
Many very clever people have spent a long time teaching us this. This is not news.
So if this is the case, why in 20 years of modern information security have we done so little to actively protect them?
Technical vulnerability scanning is now mature and commoditised, allowing us to repeatably test and adapt our systems in the face of a changing threat landscape. The time has come to apply the same logic to our people, actively understand human connectivity and behaviours when faced with threat and understand the effect of this behaviour with our organisations.
This talk will discuss why this is a difficult challenge and introduce AVA, the first automated human vulnerability scanner that allows us to map the connectivity of our people, test them with a range of security threats and measure their behaviour. A tool built to make human security risk (and the effectiveness of our countermeasures and training) measurable.
Let's change the way we approach human security risk. Let's protect our people.
PRESENTED BY
Laura Bell
Black Hat - USA - 2015 Hacking conference
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