Hacker2Hacker and the State of Computer Security in Brazil
Summary: A Sourcefire speaker at the 6th Annual Hacker2Hacker Conference in Sao Paulo reported that Brazil's technical security community has the skills, working on web fuzzers and shellcode creation techniques, but that the business community is extremely distrustful of the security industry and treats "hacker" as nearly synonymous with "criminal." Graça Sermoud of Decision Report led an H2CSO panel at the conference and praised the bravery of panelists given the potential risk to their reputations, while over 600 business professionals watched the panel live.
Bottom line: In Brazil, the White Hat versus Black Hat distinction is foreign to the business community and most of the IT industry, so security leaders there face reputational risk simply for being associated with the field - a gap that 600 business professionals watching the H2CSO panel suggests may be starting to close.
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