Babar-ians at the Gate: Data Protection at Massive Scale

Presented at Black Hat USA 2014, Aug. 6, 2014, 5 p.m. (60 minutes)

We are meant to measure and manage data with more precision than ever before using Big Data. But companies are getting Hadoopy often with little or no consideration of security. Are we taking on too much risk too fast? This session explains how best to handle the looming Big Data risk in any environment. Better predictions and more intelligent decisions are expected from our biggest data sets, yet do we really trust systems we secure the least? And do we really know why "learning" machines continue to make amusing and sometimes tragic mistakes? Infosec is in this game but with Big Data we appear to be waiting on the sidelines. What have we done about emerging vulnerabilities and threats to Hadoop as it leaves many of our traditional data paradigms behind? This presentation, based on the new book "Realities of Big Data Security," takes the audience through an overview of the hardest big data protection problem areas ahead and into our best solutions for the elephantine challenges here today.


Presenters:

  • Davi Ottenheimer - EMC
    Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of the book "Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack" published in May 2012 by Wiley. An expert in compliance, he served as a qualified PCI DSS and PA-DSS assessor with K3DES, and as a former Board Member for the Payment Card Industry Security Alliance and the Silicon Valley chapters of ISACA and OWASP. He formerly was responsible for security at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the world's largest investment fund manager (now BlackRock). Prior to BGI he was a "dedicated paranoid" at Yahoo! and responsible for managing security for hundreds of millions of mobile, broadband, and digital home products. Davi received his postgraduate academic Master of Science degree in International History from the London School of Economics.

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