Inside the Black Hat network operations center, volunteers work in geek heaven
Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run one of the more unusual examples of IT infrastructure on the planet: the Black Hat network operations center.
about the latest exploits, you'd expect the network to be under constant assault. Attacks do happen, but as one of the NOC crew explained to"It's very different than most environments, because when you look at the environments that you have, there's something to protect," said Dave Glover, who works by day on the RSA Netwitness Platform."You need to protect your cloud assets, maybe text databases, files, blah, blah, blah.That and the conference public Wi-Fi, of course.
For example, Grifter said, there have been cases where attendees have turned up with malware already on their laptops, and when that code tries to communicate with its operator's command-and-control servers it's picked up and acted upon by the team.Similarly, when unencrypted traffic is detected on the network, this is noted.
And then there's the issue of people trying to compromise the network itself, which happens pretty much every show. It's understandable that someone being taught new techniques or skills is going to want to try those out, Grifter pointed out, and often the quickest way to sort this out is to locate the source – sometimes in a training session right there and then – and pop your head around the door and tell them to knock it off, please.
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