[AusNOG] Optus Hack

Damien Gardner Jnr rendrag at rendrag.net
Tue Sep 27 10:49:19 AEST 2022


Personally, I find putting Authentication on my API endpoints to be a
FANTASTIC first step towards API security.  And then not even using public
IP addresses in test environments is a pretty good second step..
</onlyhalfsarcasticherewhydoesthiskeephappening>

On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 10:46, Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> Obviously a big week in telco and cybersecurity.  As part of my work I am
> on the Australian Cyber Security Industry Advisory Committee as an industry
> representative.
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> I am keen to look at opening up a dialogue with more and more telco, DC
> and Cloud CISO’s on what they are doing around this issue and looking to
> take a proactive step towards best practice on customer data and system
> security.
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> There will be some pretty serious consequences of this hack on the
> industry and importantly we need to make sure we are as best placed to help
> each other continually increase in security posture through best practice,
> but also working with each other as an industry.
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> Are people keen on having a online/VC session sometime in the next few
> weeks where like-minded industry participants get together and discuss
> security, retention, encryption, threat detection etc.?  If so, just ping
> me directly and if there is enough interest I will send out an invitation
> to the list for a call.
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> Cheers
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