Attack of the Canaries! (Interview)
from The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
This week we're joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroon walks us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network, how they maintain low false-positive numbers, their thoughts and principles on building their business (major wisdom shared!), and how a Canary helps surface network attacks in real time.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:00 Sponsor: Statsig
- 4:28 Start the show!
- 5:32 Canary tokens
- 10:03 The footprint of a Canary
- 14:23 The Homelab lens
- 16:43 Fingerprinting a Canary
- 18:45 Masquerading as many things
- 24:02 Ratio of Canaries to real hardware?
- 28:47 Sponsor: Sentry
- 32:26 False positives
- 34:11 How are attackers getting in?
- 39:10 How do you masquerade well?
- 41:45 Bootstrapping Thinkst and Canary
- 53:31 Adding too many things
- 59:35 Just be kind
- 1:03:21 Regarding dead Canaries
- 1:05:53 How Canaries get deployed
- 1:12:00 Sponsor: Changelog News
- 1:13:44 Do you care about hardware?
- 1:20:06 Adam's attack!!
- 1:25:10 Where else can/will you go?
- 1:29:04 Thoughts on the VC model
- 1:40:51 Save it for ++
- 1:41:40 Up next!
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