Abstract

2012 has been a year of security incidents. As per the 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon, there have been a total of 855 incidents with a staggering 174 million compromised records in the last year! Some of the recent incidents to hit the headlines include Gamigo (8.2 million user login credentials), eHarmony (28 million passwords reset), Nexon (13 million gamers ID theft scare), Yahoo! (450,000 username and passwords compromised), LinkedIn (6.5 million passwords stolen) and earlier breaches at Last.fm, Formspring, Nvidia, Microsoft India Store, Sony, RSA, Epsilon, etc. There were also other attacks such as Flame, Stuxnet, and Anonymous group taking down or defacing websites such as MTNL, Indian political parties’ websites, British Prime Minister, Home Office website of the British government, Chinese government, etc.

Ashish will attempt in his talk to connect the dots between the various incidents, and how to avoid common pitfalls in corporate security incidents and reach the ‘Cape of Good Hope’ through common best practices.