Chapter 14: Wrapping It Up – Mitigations and Good Practices

Now we have found a lot of vulnerabilities, stolen secrets, and disturbed and intercepted communications, but how do we wrap up the story for our clients? How do we link this to existing industry good practices and how do we advise our clients in order for them to realize that they are not the only ones making these mistakes and, more importantly, on how to fix them? And, since this is the last chapter of the book, what do you do next and what kinds of things could you look into to satisfy your curiosity for research?

In order to advise your client on how to solve the problems you found, we will look into the sources you can rely on to relate your findings to good practices (basically to tell your client that their security is bad, and they should feel bad), then quick solutions to common problems, and, in the end, how you can continue bettering yourself at hardware.

We will cover the following topics in this...