An Inside Look into Defense Industrial Base Technical Security Controls

Architecture and Background

Copy of the slides for this talk are here: Extras: An Inside Look Into Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Technical Security Controls: How Private Industry Protects Our Country's Secrets James Kirk Senior Security Consultant / Rapid7, Inc. With an ever changing threat of nation states targeting the United States and its infrastructure and insiders stealing information for public release, we must continuously evaluate the procedural and technical controls we place on our national assets.

Vulnerability Analysis

This presentation goes into brief detail on how security controls are developed, reviewed, and enforced at a national level for protection of data classified up to Top Secret and some of the major flaws in the security approach to data privacy. The purpose of this presentation is to raise awareness of substandard security practices within sensitive areas of the Federal Government and to influence change in how controls and practices are developed and maintained.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

James Kirk is a Senior Security Consultant for Rapid7, Inc. who has over 11 years of experience in various information security disciplines.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

James, in his previous role, has served as a Special Agent for the Department of Defense (Defense Security Service) where he conducted numerous security audits of defense contractor facilities across the United States. dot com