Legislation, financially driven attackers and high profile breaches have changed the economics of security. We need to rethink the motivations of attackers and the new attacker economy given a growing stolen identity information trade and the rise of organized electronic crime. We need to study "hackernomics", the social science concerned with description and analysis of attacker motivations, economics and business risk. In this video, Dr. Herbert Thompson vividly illustrates the laws of hackernomics and looks at how to think like an attacker.
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Dr. Herbert Thompson
Chief Security Strategist, People Security
Dr. Herbert H. Thompson is chief security strategist at People Security and a world-renown expert in application security. He heads the company's security education program and also directs research projects for some of the world's largest corporations.
He has co-authored four books on the topic including, "How to Break Software Security: Effective Techniques for Security Testing" (with Dr. James Whittaker, published by Addison-Wesley, 2003), and "The Software Vulnerability Guide" (with Scott Chase, published by Charles River 2005).
He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology, where he remains on the graduate faculty and also holds the CISSP certification.
