Contributing Analyst: Brian Maroney
Walk through DEF CON 34 long enough and cybersecurity starts looking a lot less like cybersecurity.
There’s a semi-truck. A boat. The new electric Volkswagen ID.Buzz. Hotel locks spread across a table. Cameras, embedded systems, wireless gear, industrial equipment, old computers, arcade machines, lock picks and enough exposed circuit boards to make parts of the convention look more like somebody’s garage than a cybersecurity conference.
None of this is necessarily new to DEF CON. The Car Hacking Village, for example, has been around for years. Lock picking, hardware hacking, wireless security and embedded systems have long been part of the culture.
But seeing all of it together makes something pretty clear:
There aren’t many things left that don’t involve software, connectivity or a computer somewhere inside them.
For the people responsible for protecting a business, that’s important.
Cybersecurity has become much bigger than the network.
