The once and future rules of cybersecurity (SecTor keynote)

Cybersecurity has always been built on rules — some that save us, and some that nearly ruin us. A few have held true for decades, like "your users are the weakest link." Others, like "change your passwords every month," aged badly and left us chasing the wrong problems. Rules reflect the world in which they were written, and the world keeps moving.

In this session, HD revisits the rules we lived by in the 2000s, reveal which ones still matter, which ones failed us, and what new rules we'll need to survive the future.

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