Presentation: Digital Assets: 7 Lessons in Securing What's Next

Track: Innovations in Fintech

Location: Plymouth - Royale, 6th fl.

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Level: Intermediate

Abstract

Over the last 8 years the burgeoning space of digital assets including Bitcoin and Ethereum have grown from an idea to a $100+ Billion dollar market that’s increasingly used by people and companies around the world. As this space continues to mature, similarities and differences to existing Fintech applications continue to grow in both directions. This talk recaps on the past several years at the largest cryptocurrency company in the world and explores technical infrastructure and security lessons learned that apply to what’s next in Fintech. Topics include insider threat, red-teaming and moving fast without compromising security.

Speaker: Rob Witoff

Security Infrastructure Leader @ Google

Rob Witoff is an experienced engineering leader who builds usable solutions for hard problems.  By day he works primarily in detection & response engineering as a senior technical program manager at Google. Previously, he was the Chief Architect at Coinbase where his teams built all-things infrastructure and security.  In another life Rob spent the better part of a decade at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, first as a systems engineering lead on a successful laser communication experiment deployed on the International Space Station (OPALS) and finally in the IT CTO’s Office as a Data Scientist developing new capabilities for the Astronaut Office, accessing Mars Telemetry and institutional search. When his head is out of the clouds, Rob is a longtime entrepreneur endurance runner and Y Combinator founder of Apigy inc.

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