Trust in Networking: An Interactive Tour of our TCP/IP Decisions

As an Internet user, you engage in a huge collection of interactions all predicated in one way or another on trust. As a software developer, you actually sell trust to customers. Software engineers can no longer afford naiveté about how the trust points interact and how Internet networking really works.

In this talk we will take you into the heart of the trust interactions we all move through in networking — from DHCP leases to DNS resolution to BGP routing, to personal wifi usage, Javascript in web applications and why we should all be sending angry emails to the maintainers of RubyGems and NPM. Most importantly, we’ll discuss the areas where trust is inevitable and those where trusting can be dangerous - the places we can all do something about.

After that, we'll open it up to the floor for a “no question is dumb” session about all things networking/security, giving you the opportunity to ask industry veterans anything you want to know.

Drinks and socialization practice to follow at Handlebar, sponsored by Rapid7.

Our Speakers

Trevor Rosen is an Austin native and longtime Ruby developer who loves tinkering with open-source tech. In his day job, he's lucky enough to work for Rapid7 on Metasploit, where he manages the architecture team and works with some of the sharpest developers around, building industry-leading security tools and simulating cyber criminality.

Tod Beardsley is the Engineering Manager for the Metasploit Project, the world-renowned open source penetration testing platform. He has over twenty years of hands-on security knowledge, reaching back to the halcyon days of 2400 baud textfile BBSes and in-band telephony switching. Since then, he has held IT Ops and IT Security positions in large footprint organizations such as 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse. Today, he is passionate (some might say militant) about open source software development, open source security research, and data liberation. He can often be found on Freenode IRC and Twitter as "todb.”

egypt is a software developer for Rapid7 where he hacks things with the Metasploit Framework. Before coming to Rapid7, he was a Cybersecurity researcher for Idaho National Laboratory where he discovered numerous vulnerabilities in SCADA and Industrial Control Systems. egypt has presented at Defcon, BSidesLV, Blackhat, Derbycon and other venues. Note that egypt is not Egypt. The two can be distinguished easily by their relative beards --Egypt has millions, while egypt only has the one.