Presented at
CactusCon 12 (2024),
Feb. 17, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
(60 minutes).
The Internet now touches and intrudes on almost every aspect of our lives. There is a flood of data available that identifies individuals at our fingertips, sometimes apparent, but more often hidden. Conducting investigations in this new world has provided new opportunities as well as technical challenges, and has raised legal and ethical issues along the way. Now with the smallest piece of information we can uncover crimes and corruption. Still, these same techniques can be used by malicious actors, authoritarian states, and even corporations for unethical and even nefarious purposes . In this presentation, Ken Westin will discuss real investigations and techniques he has used to track and unveil organized crime groups, white-collar cybercriminals, and disinformation and how these same techniques can be used against the innocent. Ken will also discuss why this Pandora's Box will continue to bring challenges to privacy, truth, and human rights and how we as a community can help to protect all three.
Presenters:
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Ken Westin
- Field CISO, Panther
Ken Westin has been in the cybersecurity field for over 15 years working with companies to improve their security posture, through threat hunting, insider threat programs, and vulnerability research. In the past, he has worked closely with law enforcement helping to unveil organized crime groups. His work has been featured in Wired, Forbes, New York Times, Good Morning America, and others, and is regularly reached out to as an expert in cybersecurity, cybercrime, and surveillance.
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