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Saturday, July 15 • 11:10am - 12:00pm
Developing a Threat Modeling Mindset
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Nearly every day we hear about another compromise of a system that involves a breakdown of security. In many cases, the reason for compromise can be traced back to vulnerabilities that were not found or understood and not mitigated. The attacker(s) used those vulnerabilities to carry out threats against the system.

Threat modeling is a way of thinking about what can go wrong and how to prevent it. Instinctively, we all think this way in regard to our own personal security and safety. When it comes to building or evaluating information systems, we need to develop a similar mindset. In this session, Robert provides practical strategies to develop a threat modeling mindset by: understanding a system, identifying threats, identifying vulnerabilities, determining mitigations and applying the mitigations through risk management.

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Robert Hurlbut

Principal Application Security Architect, Aquia
Robert Hurlbut is a Principal Application Security Architect / Threat Modeling Lead at Aquia, Inc. with 30 years of industry experience in secure coding, software architecture, and software development. He speaks at user groups, national and international conferences, and provides... Read More →


Saturday July 15, 2017 11:10am - 12:00pm CDT
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