AI is sometimes spoken about as something that will, in the future, secure companies’ networks. However, cyber AI has already been deployed by thousands of companies to detect and fight back against increasingly advanced, fast-moving, and stealthy threats. This session will unpack the benefits and challenges of cyber AI. By exploring the advantages of different machine learning approaches and talking about the potential barriers to adoption, this session aims to arm attendees with the knowledge they need to evaluate AI cyber defense for their own organizations.

In this session, learn about:
• AI approaches and algorithms for detecting and responding to threats
• How human teams adopt (or resist) automated defense
• Threats contained by cyber AI, including hacked IoT devices, insider threat, and machine-speed attacks  

In this session, expand your understanding of the advantages of cyber AI with a deep dive into real world use cases. Learn how companies are using AI for cyber due diligence, cyber risk insurance, and policy compliance. This session will also include a live demonstration of Darktrace’s Threat Visualizer. Attendees will get to see cyber AI in action and visualize the data breaches and ransomware attacks making headlines.

Taking a “best practices” approach to cybersecurity may help you “check the box,” but key stakeholders - - the Board, business unit leaders, customers, regulators, partners and customers -- are demanding more. Companies must now demonstrate a whole new level of cyber-diligence, which means establishing and maintaining true visibility of their security posture and the likelihood of breach. This discussion will explore the intersection of security and enterprise risk, and will reveal how data drives better decision-making about security priorities.

Fact: A 2018 report researched by PwC interviewed 9,500 executives from 122 countries revealed that 54% do not have an incident response plan and 44% did not have an overall info security strategy. That indicates that the future of successful cyber attacks is inevitable. This panel discusses “Security Orchestration” which unites the security teams or “human element” with pre-existing automated tools and processes around security incidents. Effective alerts, automated incident response actions with solutions that integrate & communicate with each other can all assist in making sense of the breach and respond in an orchestrated fashion. A proper plan also includes a communication process incorporating the legal, law enforcement, insurance and public relations team along with non-stop internal security training of the entire organization. Today’s CISO needs to anticipate, and predict how the security challenges of the future may affect the business and be able to articulate that to the board along with eventually disseminating the breach to the media & public.

Security leaders have to delicately balance the needs of the Boardroom / C-Suite with the things you need to do as a practitioner to get the job done. Several effective, pragmatic strategies help embed operational efficiency into security operations. Conscious structuring and communication of these efforts will help CISOs and security leads gain support for risk avoidance, risk management, and frugal resource management.

Ransomware sales have increased by over 1,400% over the last two years. The impact of ransomware, destructive malware and related attacks is growing globally as the statistics illustrate. This panel addresses the question of whether your company should pay the cyber criminals with the fact that you may not retrieve your data regardless. Best practices including continually backing up your critical files to multiple locations including the cloud, the use of decryption tools when your assets are held for ransom, keeping your security software up to date and training the employees about the dangers of opening the wrong attachment or link.

With 90% of organizations feeling vulnerable to insider attacks and a majority of organizations confirming insider attacks against their organizations in the past 12 months, insider threat proves to be even more virulent than malicious attacks by actors beyond your network walls. On your payroll in one way or another, these dissatisfied employees, corporate spies and the like, have the means to harm your business. These insiders also have the ability to cause harm without meaning to! This panel will enlighten you on what insider threat & corporate espionage put at risk in your business. You will learn how identify threats inside your business (malicious and accidental) and leave with strong takeaways that will allow you to fortify your company defenses.