Week 11: Operational Security

Attribution, infrastructure hygiene and the human errors behind famous operational-security failures

19 October 2027

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Good malware and good operational security are not the same skill, and the gap between them is where operators get caught. This lecture covers attribution, infrastructure hygiene, and the logs, metadata and human errors behind famous operational-security failures.

Outline#

• attribution
• infrastructure hygiene
• logs, metadata and mistakes
• human error
• famous operational-security failures
• “how did they get caught?”