This speech would go over the top 5 most common ways to breach the physical security of a data center. This information has been gathered by the speaker over the course of his career as a physical penetration tester/red teamer. Topics covered will include social engineering, lock picking, and common construction flaws. Example of how these vulnerabilities were and can be used to attack a data center physically as well as solutions to these issues will also be covered.
Ryan Jone has worked in the information security field for over 14 years. His main focus has been on network, application, and physical security assessments and he has worked in these capacities with over 1000+ clients for a variety of business sectors with the primary the emphasis being on the government, banking, and medical industries. His work included testing web applications, network penetration testing, physical penetration testing, physical security assessments and planning, social engineering testing as well as designing information security remediation programs for these clients. He has spoken at at various events and conferences, including the Defcon Skybox talks. He was a cast member and technical producer of the 2007 TV show "Tiger Team" and is also currently the co-host of the security podcast "Exotic Liability." He is currently a Senior Security Consultant on the Application Security Team of Trustwave's Spiderlabs.