Niall Merrigan
Security Tech Person
Stavanger, Norway
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Niall is an Irish guy who managed to end up in Norway after finding out the country existed when he was in New Zealand. He works at Microsoft helping customers with their technology investments. He has very strong opinions on security, web tech, food and wine.
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The Evolution of Security Attacks and Threats
When someone says they have a secure system, someone will invariably try to prove them wrong. It all started in the early 1900s when Marconi claimed his wireless telegraph was secure and Nevil Maskelyne said "Would you be a kind old chap and hold my beer".
This jouney through the history of security attacks will show you the evolution of security attacks and people's response. You will learn that history repeats itself, how some of the most simple things in the world can be used to hack all the things
Won't somebody please think of the children!?
I have kids and they are online. I am a security person so I wanted to understand how to keep them safe. This led me down a dark and often disturbing path of understanding how online predators target children.
Do you know how quickly a child can be blackmailed online?
In this session, I will show you the various social engineering techniques that are used against kids, how features in very common social media applications are being used to harass others, sell drugs and aid in human trafficking.
I will provide advice, technical controls and resources that you can use to educate yourself and the community around you to help protect the next generation of IT professionals
Optimistic Security
Security is very often explained as being very experienced based. The more mistakes you have made, the more likely you are to be prepared in the future.
Unfortunately this is not always the case as there is so much information that our brains need to take shortcuts to keep up. This is where biases come into the equation, and this can have a detrimental effect on our ability to secure our private and business lives.
In this session, Niall will look at various things that can affect how we make decisions as well as complicate our ability to react when dealing with a security event. We will look at real world examples of this and what happened and what could have been done.
This session will ask you to do an introspective on your security practices and look for own biases so that you can protect yourself better.
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