Sean Juroviesky
Sean Juroviesky is a dedicated cybersecurity, risk management, and privacy advocate; speaking on those topics at conferences across the world including DEF CON, CypherCon, CornCon, BSides Rochester, SecretCon, Sec-T, and more. Sean also acts as a cybersecurity architect for a large music streaming provider. Beyond their professional pursuits, Sean finds joy in backpacking through the mountains with their adventurous Australian Shepherd, partner, and twins, embracing the serenity of nature and the thrill of exploration.
Sessions
In the run up to Google’s plans to dump 3rd party cookies, marketing firms (a $1.7 TRILLION dollar industry) were sent into a complete panic. These firms relied heavily on 3rd party cookies in order to better attribute CPM (cost per 1000 clicks) and how many of those clicks turned into sales. So advertisers could better study human behavior and trends in order to more effectively sell products.
As a former Security Engineer at the Largest Independent Digital Marketing firm in the world, I had a unique view into the evils that these companies were developing in order to not only maintain a view into consumer trends but to increase these views, increase the invasiveness of these techniques, and increase the cooperation between all levels of the industry from display point (streaming service), device point (iPhone, TV), location points (via ISP), to sales point.
This talk is a peek under the curtain for the server side data harvesting that agencies have developed, and how they’ve managed to twist this further invasion into so-called consumer protection and increased privacy.
The infrastructure team built out an automated and orchestrated solution to simplify it all, access, scaling ect. Alas the team who built it has left or is allocated to another project; services and infrastructure are breaking. This session will examine the challenges of lifecycle management that IaC can create, and uncover a few strategies you can use to prevent it.