1010, 2025

DeepSec 2025 Talk: Securing the Death Star: Threat modeling in a galaxy far, far away…. – Coen Goedegebure

Sanna/ October 10, 2025/ Conference/ 0 comments

The Galactic Empire is on the verge of releasing its biggest, most valuable and most important asset: the Death Star. You, the newly appointed Chief Imperial Security Officer, are responsible for improving its security posture. The previous CISO was “let go” and now it’s your job to clean up their mess. Your boss, Darth Vader, is breathing heavily down your neck. He is not amused with the project already over budget in both resources and time, and security will only add to that. His unconventional yet persuasive leadership style convinces you to make this your top-most priority. How will you approach the massive task of securing the Death Star? This presentation will tell an untold story in the Star Wars universe in which the Death Star’s threats and mitigations were identified and prioritised before

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2408, 2017

DeepSec 2017 Keynote: Social Science First! – Dr. Jessica Barker

Sanna/ August 24, 2017/ Conference, High Entropy, Security

While the schedule is still preliminary, we have already some confirmations from our speakers. We are happy to announce Dr Jessica Barker as the keynote speaker for DeepSec 2017. Information security has a lot to do with interactions. Despite AI (a.k.a. Assisted Intelligence), „smart“ assistants (a.k.a. paper clips on steroids), and a metric ton of gadgets we still have a lot of contact with human beings. Marketing departments and tech people lost in code often forget this. Jessica will give you something to think about which you can’t discuss with Siri, Alexa, the Google AI, or even HAL 9000. Bruce Schneier popularised the concept in 1999: cyber security is about people, process and technology. Yet almost two decades later, the industry still focuses so much more on technology than the other two dimensions of

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