“We use a lots of honeypots in a lot of different ways. The concept really scales to almost any kind of thing where you can create a believable fake or even a real version of something. You put it out and see who turns up to hit it or break it. There are honeypots, honey-nets, honey-tokens, honey anything.” Brian Witten – Chief Product Security Officer, Aptiv
Source: bbc
About Brian Witten
As Senior Director of Symantec Research Labs (SRL) Worldwide, Brian Witten is responsible for leading all research and development by SRL. Brian joined Symantec Research Labs 12 years ago and created Symantec Research Labs Europe along with several new technologies now used in Symantec’s enterprise and Norton consumer offerings.
Throughout his time at Symantec, Brian has led product engineering teams that helped build and deliver award winning mobile, cloud, and desktop products including Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP.cloud) and Norton Mobile Security.
Brian’s work at Symantec directly contributed to embedding security into over one billion Internet of Things (IOT) devices. Over the past 20 years, Brian has helped build security into countless things ranging from spacecraft to consumer electronics, critical infrastructure, and other systems now used in banks, hospitals and manufacturing companies around the world. Prior to joining Symantec, Brian worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. military’s central research and development organization where he managed an R&D investment portfolio of more than $150 million in U.S. and international efforts. Prior to DARPA, Brian served as an officer in the US Air Force.
