The Foundation Is Rotting and the Basement Is Flooding

The Foundation Is Rotting and the Basement Is Flooding

Explore a conference talk that delves into the critical issues plaguing modern information security infrastructure. Examine the foundations of cybersecurity, from common sense approaches to the state-of-the-art technologies. Investigate technical debt, low-level attacks, and design flaws in trusted computing bases. Learn about virtual memory, paging, and potential vulnerabilities in these systems. Discuss the challenges of communicating security concerns, balancing security with usability, and managing information security debt. Analyze the concept of risk modeling and return on investment in cybersecurity. Gain insights into worst-case security scenarios and examine OS X security as a case study.