Unpoisoned Fruit: Seeding Trust into a Growing World of Algorithmic Warfare
Davi Ottenheimer at AppSec California 2018
Artificial Intelligence, or even just Machine Learning for those who prefer organic, is influencing nearly all aspects of modern digital life. Whether it be financial, health, education, energy, transit...emphasis on performance gains and cost reduction has driven the delegation of human tasks to non-human agents. Yet who in infosec today can prove agents worthy of trust? Unbridled technology advances, as we have repeatedly learned in history, bring very serious risks of accelerated and expanded humanitarian disasters. The infosec industry has been slow to address social inequalities and conflict that escalates on the techincal platforms under their watch; we must stop those who would ply vulnerabilities in big data systems, those who strive for quick political (arguably non-humanitarian) power wins. It is in this context that algorithm security increasingly becomes synonymous with security professionals working to avert, or as necessary helping win, kinetic conflicts instigated by digital exploits. This presentation therefore takes the audience through technical details of defensive concepts in algorithmic warfare based on an illumnating history of international relations. It aims to show how and why to seed security now into big data technology rather than wait to unpoison its fruit.
Davi Ottenheimer of Flyingpenguin LLC
More than twenty years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. Co-author of the book “Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack,” published in May 2012 by Wiley. Author of forthcoming book "Realities of Securing Big Data" http://www.flyingpenguin.com/?page_id=87
Davi Ottenheimer of Flyingpenguin LLC
More than twenty years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. Co-author of the book “Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack,” published in May 2012 by Wiley. Author of forthcoming book "Realities of Securing Big Data" http://www.flyingpenguin.com/?page_id=87