Algorithm manipulation and platform abuse
Evaluating Login Challenges as a Defense Against Account Takeover
Usage of Behavioral Biometric Technologies to Defend Against Bots and Account Takeover Attacks
Frictionless strong authentication is a critical driver for enabling ecommerce and many other modern technology systems to thrive. In this talk, I showcase the challenges of tackling modern sophisticated machine based attacks and other malicious human activity attempting account takeover using stolen or compromised credentials. This is followed by a quick dive into the engineered solution that can perform behavioral analytics utilizing biometric data and how it tackles machine learning problems at the scale of hundreds of millions of authentication attempts. Insight is provided into implementation challenges, machine learning model generation, and finally integration into a very complex ecosystem. This talk will also showcase wins and how this eventually enabled a zero-trust environment.
Anatomy of Account Takeover
In this 2018 presentation at USENIX, Grzegorz Milka, a security engineer at Google, discusses the security challenges associated with account takeovers.
All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
In 2005, Cory Doctorow published this presentation for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. In it, he explains how the internet, like all complex ecosystems, has parasites and suggests these relationships are not always negative.
