Author Archives: Sean Ennis

During the Black Hat 2016 NOC outbrief session, Grifter, aka Neil Wyler made a counter-intuitive statement to the crowd of roughly 500, eager to see which of their online activities would be exposed center stage: “I look forward to the day when I can’t see anything you’re doing on the Black Hat network”. Wait… what?…

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By Wednesday morning at Black Hat, the traffic profile switched from compartmentalized, per-classroom monitoring to a more distributed and chaotic sea of general conference wireless. This meant a shift from mostly student laptop-generated traffic, to about 90% of all Black Hat activity being generated by mobile devices. Choosing how to monitor an environment like this, given no…

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A glimpse into training day. Yesterday marked the official start of Black Hat 2016, kicked off with various training courses spread throughout the convention center. For the RSA NOC team this meant a chance to validate yesterday’s installation and get an initial glimpse into the activity within and around the classroom and conference networks before the…

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