DEFCON is dead and security is cooked or is it?
Is DEFCON dead and Security cooked? A LinkedIn post by [[Jason Haddix]]
Points touched upon
- Jason Haddix, back from his sixteenth DEF CON, pushing back on the ‘last real DEF CON, security is cooked’ mood, having lived through the Metasploit, scanner, cloud and bug bounty panics.
- AI not replacing novel research, as seen from his Black Hat review board seat, with researchers bringing the insight and AI doing the middle of the pipeline.
- The strongest pipeline of new talent he has seen, and the disappearing entry level as the one fear he thinks is real.
- ‘We’re cooked’ takes written from inside a bubble, and an honest account of what AI actually did at DEF CON.
- Attackers getting AI too and demand for defenders going up, and the great remediation of more findings and more pain.
- What to actually do about it, the ‘last DEF CON anyone can afford’ worry, what would prove him wrong, and grief and adaptation.