DeepSec Press Release: Internet of Facts and Fear in the Name of IT Security — Bits, Bytes, Security and Geopolitics *

( Original press release was published on 29 August 2019 via pressetext.com)

Nobody is an island. This statement is attributed to the English writer John Donne. The sentence became known in the 17th century. In the meantime, this has changed as a result of digitization. The modern version of the statement should read: There are no more islands. Increasing networking is reaching more and more areas of everyday life and society. So this year’s DeepSec In-Depth Security Conference wants to look soberly at the Internet of facts and fear from an information security perspective. Systems are currently less isolated and much more complex than the theory of information security technically allows. The DeepSec conference therefore dedicates its two days of conference and two days of training to current technologies and their vulnerabilities. At the same time, at the DeepINTEL seminar conference, the relationship between geopolitics and IT security will be discussed on the basis of real life events.

Internet of Attacks instead of Things

Once you connect a system to the internet, you will feel it immediately. Worthwhile or vulnerable targets are automatically searched for and attacked. Connecting sensors, devices or actuators (known as “Things” in the Internet of Things) to a network is no different. The lectures at this year’s DeepSec conference…