About the Speaker
Karsten Nohl | Managing Director
Talk
Complexity in telco networks: Taming the beast
A new study of regional telcos that SRLLabs has undertaken has given us fresh and clear insights into the immense complexity of telco networks. Above all it has sharpened our understanding of the ways in which complexity creates critical, often overlooked, barriers to doing telco security to the high standard we are all striving for.
Vendor dependencies, diverse physical infrastructures, and diverse technologies – both old and new – greatly increase both the attack surface itself and the effort that’s needed to defend it. This talk will argue that reducing complexity should be a far greater priority for making telcos more resilient against hacking. It will point to how harmonization as well as retirements throughout the networking and security stacks can significantly improve cybersecurity posture. And it will point to the value of peer benchmarking in guiding those strategies.
Karsten is a cryptographer and security researcher. He likes to test security assumptions in proprietary systems and typically breaks them. Karsten is the Founder of Berlin-based Autobahn Security where his professional work includes testing telcos for hacking issues. Karsten was the CISO at Jio and Axiata.
About Autobahn Security
Autobahn Security is a platform that helps companies improve vulnerability management by aggregating, prioritizing, and remediating issues efficiently and transparently. We provide Cyber Fitness Workouts – actionable remediation guides that will help IT teams optimize IT-System against hackers, easily and quickly, even without security expertise. Our experience provides guidance on all steps of the way to achieve a measurably lower hacking risk. Its is made to support ongoing security efforts or help initiate them. Autobahn Security relies on over a decade worth of experience in white hat hacking, cyber security research, and Fortune-500-consultancy.
Website: www.autobahn-security.com