Is there a big hacker conspiracy happening right now inside your business? Research coming out of the DEFCON hacker convention suggests there is.. Surveys taken during the annual DEFCON hacker convention always throw up a few obvious but nonetheless important revelations. How about this one: hackers love it when they find misconfigured networks, and they find lots of them because so many IT workers have no idea what a properly configured network looks like. Every year at DEFCON, Tufin Technologies survey the gathered security researchers and IT security professionals attending the convention (or hackers as they are called when they are not filling in questionnaires) in order to get a grip on the trends within the hacking community and how they impact upon corporate security strategies. The results of the 2010 The link for this article located at IT Pro UK is no longer available. . Observations from DEFCON highlight concerning patterns regarding vulnerabilities due to improper network setups affecting cybersecurity.. Hacker Insights, Cybersecurity, Network Misconfiguration, DEFCON 2023, IT Trends. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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