Detecting and preventing data-crime in a petabyte world

Presented at Kiwicon 7: Cyberfriends (2013), Nov. 9, 2013, 4:15 p.m. (30 minutes).

In 2013 most medium enterprises are dealing with terabytes of data; large enterprises petabytes. This presents some difficulties when attempting to detect data-crime where often the traces left behind measure only in bytes. This talk will discuss this problem and look to the future in solving it and demo some free tools that can be used to expedite investigations.


Presenters:

  • David Litchfield
    David Litchfield is a computer security researcher working for Datacom TSS in Australia. He is the author of the Oracle Hacker's Handbook and co-author of the Database Hacker's Handbook, SQL Server Security and the first edition of the Shellcoder's Handbook. He is pioneer in the field of database forensics and developed the first comprehensive suite of tools for database breach investigations. In 2011, he helped investigate the Sony Playstation Network data breach, the largest breach to date, and was able to produce a detailed activity map and timeline of what the hackers did to the database once they'd broken in. He has worked for Accuvant, NGSSoftware, @stake, Cerberus Information Security and Exodus Communications and contracted for GCHQ and provided training and advice to the Security Service, the NSA and the BSI.

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