This post is a very high level summary of Day 2 at the Boston ReWork Deep Learning Summit 2015. Day 1 can be found here.
The first session kicked off with Kevin O’Brian from GreatHorn. There are 3 major problems facing the infosec community at the moment:
- Modern infrastructure is far more complex than it used to be – we are using AWS, Azure as extensions of our physical networks and spaces such as GitHub as code repositories and Docker for automation. It is very difficult for any IT professional to keep up with all of the potential vulnerabilities and ensure that everything is secure.
- (Security) Technical debt – there is too much to monitor/fix even if business released the time and funds to address it.
- Shortfall in skilled people – there is a 1.5 million shortage in infosec people – this isn’t going to be resolved quickly.