Security products don't have to suck

HAROON MEER

45 mins // March 22 @ TCC >>

ABSTRACT

It has been a decade and a half since FX famously quipped that by quality level, "we’d be better off defending our networks with Microsoft Word than a Checkpoint firewall."

Security products are still pretty terrible - but why? From usability to vulnerability counts - we still fare pretty poorly. This keynote examines why this keeps happening and plots a path to a different world.

Haroon Meer

Haroon Meer is the founder of Thinkst, the company behind the well loved Thinkst Canary. Haroon has contributed to several books on information security and has published a number of papers and tools on various topics related to the field. Over the past decade (or two) he has delivered research, talks and keynotes at conferences around the world.

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