Black Hat keynoter: If cybersecurity is everyone’s job, what’s the security team’s job?

LAS VEGAS. Black Hat kicked off here with a keynote by Dino Dai Zovi -- the mobile security lead at Square -- and with a record 20,000 participants expected to attend the two-day conference.

Dai Zovi posed the question, if security is every team’s job, what is the security team’s job? He said security teams will become “internal security software teams,” adding value through “self-service platforms and tools.”

He presented three organizing ideas for attacking security challenges: “work backwards from...