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The Completion Backward Principle

geoffrey

geoffrey explores the completion backward principle at DEF CON 15, examining vulnerability-research and practical defenses.

Summary

Architecture and Background

Geoffrey Bennett: The Completion Backward Principle If you're responsible for the burglar alarm at your facility, do you understand how it's being monitored by the "Data Monitoring Group" flunkees? Are all those alarm conditions real?

Vulnerability Analysis

The Completion Backward Principle covers issues arising from Internet-enabled monitoring of burglar alarm systems, and possible mitigations. Spot The Fed will most assuredly be played at this talk.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

For the past seventeen years, geoffrey has been a Facility Security Officer and ComSec manager in support of various tla's. Securing computer networks, telephone systems, and buildings is not just an adventure, it's his job.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

He can often be found giggling, like a schoolgirl, at the thought of global warfare being waged upon nouns. geoffrey is also available for childrens' parties.

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