Threats to Our Security: Motivations and Targets

While network security is about intrusion detection, malware analysis, DDoS mitigation, etc, network security is also about the miscreants behind the malicious activity and their intentions. As long as the miscreant community is motivated to conduct malicious activity, we'll suffer from their actions. In order to better understand the fundamental reasons behind network attacks, this talk will explore what motivates the common miscreant and will examine what types of information and targets will help miscreants fulfill their objectives.