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DeepSec 2020 „The Masquerade“,
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Information security is a field of many skills. There is no doubt about this. Modern technology and the digital world we all live in require a decent set of varying talents. So what do you really need to know? How can you accumulate all this knowledge without being reborn twice? Do we stop at DevSecBioLawOps, or can we add some more words as German native speakers routinely do?
The presentation will take you through the wonderful world of information security throughout the decades. You will arrive at a model of today's infosec world - or at least at the picture found in advertising. We will compare this to reality and see if we can derive any meaningful conclusion from historic and current facts.
In the spirit of BSidesLondon's Rookie Track: Rookies and long-time infosec veterans welcome!
Presenters:
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René 'Lynx' Pfeiffer
- DeepSec In-Depth Security Conference
René was born in the year of Atari's founding and the release of the game Pong. Since his early youth he started taking things apart to see how they work. He couldn't even pass construction sites without looking for electrical wires that might seem interesting. The interest in computing began when his grandfather bought him a 4-bit microcontroller with 256 byte RAM and a 4096 byte operating system, forcing him to learn assembler before any other language. After finishing school he went to university in order to study physics. He then collected experiences with a C64, a C128, two Amigas, DEC's Ultrix, OpenVMS and finally GNU/Linux on a PC in 1997 (let's leave out the wonderful world of Windows 3.11/95/NT4). He is using Linux since this day and still likes to take things apart und put them together again. Freedom of tinkering brought him close to the Free Software movement, where he puts some effort into the right to understand how things work - which he still does.
René is currently occupied with system administration (old school, I know), teaching at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien and Burgenland, conducting secure coding/design trainings, security/penetration/compliance testing, and writing lecture notes.
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