About the Speaker
Nick Palmer | Senior Solutions and Customer Engineer
Talk
Don’t let your network let you down: A spotlight on telco attack surfaces
Telecom networks are more complex and exposed than ever, with sprawling infrastructure that includes legacy systems, 5G, APIs, cloud assets, and third-party services. This growing attack surface presents serious risks to availability, security, and customer trust. This talk will examine the unique challenges telcos face in managing their external attack surface and the urgent need for continuous discovery and monitoring. Through real-world examples, we’ll explore common blind spots like shadow IT and misconfigurations, and offer practical strategies for reducing exposure. Learn how proactive External Attack Surface Management (EASM) can turn visibility into resilience—and prevent your network from becoming your biggest risk.
Nick Palmer is a security IT professional with over two decades of experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security. Nick is a cyber security technologist, security advocate and business problem solver. Previously he has worked for a variety of industry leading companies including: Attivo, Microsoft, TrapX Security, HP. In his role with the technology team at Censys, he helps customers uncover threats and vulnerabilities before they become risks.
About Censys
Censys is the leading Internet Intelligence Platform for Threat Hunting and Attack Surface Management. We provide governments, enterprises, and researchers with the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the internet to defend attack surfaces and hunt for threats. Censys scans 45 times more services than the nearest competitor across the world’s largest certificate database [>10B], reducing the likelihood of a breach by 50%.
For more information, please visit: censys.com