How Much Damage Can the Network at a Hacker Conference Take?

For a normal organization, it would be a year’s worth of malicious traffic.

At the Black Hat conference, their network sees the same in about two days.

That’s what Neil “Grifter” Wyler (@Grifter801) said about the network behavior he sees every year at the Black Hat Conference. Grifter manages the conference’s network operation center (NOC).

I got a chance to talk to Grifter at the show about the network and what he and his team of network volunteers learn from this hacking onslaught.

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David Spark
David Spark is the founder of CISO Series where he produces and co-hosts many of the shows. Spark is a veteran tech journalist having appeared in dozens of media outlets for almost three decades.