Secure browsers

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This is a talk at St. Louis Secure World conference, Sept 2014 http://www.secureworldexpo.com/st-louis/home

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Secure Browsers

SecureWorld St. Louis9/14

David Strom, @dstrom

NSS Labs Secure Browser Report

Certainly you can turn up these security settings

• Block pop-ups• Increase your privacy controls• Refuse tracking cookies • And so forth

Secure browsers type A: sandbox

Secure browsers type B: lockdown

My testbed

• Qualys browsercheck• Ip-secrets.com for browser agent info• Html5test.com for specifics on that• Download sample PDF and Eicar test .EXE file• Malwaredomainlist.com for fun• Added a few phished emails to see what

happens

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2175897/securityecure-browsers-offer-alternatives-to-

chrom/security/secure-browsers-offer-alternatives-to-chrome--ie-

and-firefox.html