“In theory, practicing security means taking low-cost baby steps in every area possible, treating time spent practicing security as a small, incremental investment that grows.”
Davi Ottenheimer is the founder and president of flyingpenguin, with more than 20 years’ experience managing global security operations and assessments— including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics teams. He is also a member of the faculty at Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS), serves on the board of a couple of security startups, and guest lectures at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. In 2012, while consulting with VMware engineering, Davi co-wrote the cloud security book Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack. Lately, he is the head of product security for a popular database company and has been working on his next book, The Realities of Securing Big Data, about the societal risks inherent in unsecured machine learning and AI.
If there is one myth that you could debunk in cybersecurity, what would it be?
I sometimes hear people attempting to prove our folk tales and fables false. It is tempting to use personal expertise to debunk fantastical-sounding cybersecurity stories of inhuman skill, unearthly severity, or the astronomical likelihood of attacks. Yet, behind ...
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