Presented at Electronic Document Conference 2019
( 2019, Jun )

Could PDF be a weapon in cyber wafare?

Session description

Today PDF is the format of choice for every kind of document used in all industries, governments and by all citizens. It is trusted by everyone to reliably communicate accurate information… but how can we guarantee a document and its information is truly safe, trustworthy, and authentic? Verifying the trustworthiness and provenance of the barrage of PDFs received by an organization is an exceedingly difficult task as individuals and organizations routinely engage with data shared by unauthenticated and potentially compromised sources. Further, the software used to process documents is error-prone and vulnerable to exploitation through maliciously crafted data inputs, opening the technology and its underlying systems to compromise.

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