The Art of the Breach

The Art of the Breach is designed to be a journey for anyone interested in physical security. Robert takes the audience on a trip from sidewalk to executive filing cabinet. During this adventure, Robert discusses everything from successful reconnaissance prior to the breach to ensuring an easy exit afterwards. Robert spends time at each step to go over the various options for moving forward. Some of these options are easy and straight forward while others require preparations and planning. Since every business is different, Robert brings in many different options a physical penetration tester might face. This includes steel doors, cameras, armed guards and aware employees. While many talks physical security talks focus strictly on the information security aspect of breaching, Robert will combine this with techniques used by first responders to enter a building. If you want to up your game on physical security or at the very least bring back some ideas for improving your company’s defenses, this talk is for you.

Physical access to an area or equipment is every hackers dream. However, this is often the most overlooked area in security. This talk takes the attendees through a step by step process to get from the side walk to the presidents filing cabinet so everyone can see not only the steps but how an attacker would plan the entire event. This ensures that every single audience member will have at least one point of value to bring back to their office.

About the Speaker

Robert Sell

Robert is the founder and president of the Trace Labs Organization which organizes crowd sourced OSINT for locating missing persons. Robert is also Senior IT Manager in the aerospace industry. He works at an international level and spends most of his time managing information security teams. While these teams focus on the traditional risk mitigation, most of Robert’s focus is on finding better ways of securing the business. Robert has spent an increasing amount of time building defenses against social engineering. He has spoken about the rising social risk at numerous events and on different security podcasts. In 2017 and 2018 he competed at the Social Engineering Village Capture the Flag contest. He placed third in this contest (both years) and since then has been teaching organizations how to defend against social attacks and how to reduce their OSINT footprint. In 2018 he actually managed a CTF while participating in a CTF at Defcon Vegas. Robert is also a ten year volunteer with Search & Rescue in British Columbia, Canada. In his SAR capacity, Robert is a Team Leader, Trainer, Marine Rescue Technician, Swift Water Technician and Tracker.