New York 2020

Prior to defending an organization against a determined attacker, their techniques must be understood. This presentation provides an adversarial viewpoint to inform network defense leaders how the attackers see their organizations and are able to be successful with their objectives, even when well defended. The presenter will draw upon over 17 years of personal experience as a Red Team operator and leader to illustrate how your organizations are viewed, through the eyes of an adversary.

Today, 94% of cyber-threats still originate in the inbox. ‘Impersonation attacks’ are on the rise, as artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to automatically generate spear-phishing emails, or ‘digital fakes’, that expertly mimic the writing style of trusted contacts and colleagues. Humans can no longer distinguish real from fake on their own – businesses are increasingly turning to AI to distinguish friend from foe and fight back with autonomous response. In an era when thousands of documents can be encrypted in minutes, ‘immune system’ technology takes action in seconds – stopping cyber-threats before damage is done. Find out how in this session.

If you’re not regularly referring to the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon’s 2020 Mobile Security Index or the company’s other recent research reports, you’re missing out. This presentation will highlight key findings from Verizon’s recent research reports – and will explain how security leaders can use these reports to fine-tune their security programs and educate their stakeholders and employees about risks specific to their industry.

When threat actors exploit weaknesses in an organization’s IT infrastructure, the consequences can be devastating to productivity, reputation, and financially. Without treating cybersecurity as an ongoing process, hackers can find, weaponize, deploy, and attack your infrastructure faster than your team can patch the vulnerability leaving your infrastructure unprotected. Your systems may be secure today, but next week, a cybersecurity criminal may discover and exploit a critical vulnerability in your environment. Join us as we discuss how continuous vulnerability management can be executed effectively.

The growth of workforce mobility and recent dramatic increase in workplace flexibility is requiring businesses to enable users more fluid, yet secure access from anywhere, at any time, and from any device to distributed applications and resources residing in data center and multi-cloud environments. In our “age of any access,” what should organizations consider to fortify their security posture and what innovations are on the horizon? Pulse Secure CEO, Sudhakar Ramakrishna will discuss how secure access has evolved, where Zero Trust model is being applied, and new technologies being put to task to ensure user productivity, operational visibility and compliance.

Security teams today are being overwhelmed by the massive amounts of data collected by their various protection tools and in most cases, these security teams do not have the budget to hire external Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts. As such, companies are looking to implement an automated response system by using SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) tools in an effort to relieve some of the burden on their already understaffed security teams and increase efficiency.

In a recent survey of more than 1,400 IT security professionals, 79% reported that their organization has existing automation tools and platforms in place (29%) or are planning to implement them within the next six months to three years (50%). However, this is not a simple solution for many companies as the successful implementation of automation requires a well-trained and educated team. In fact, 56% of organizations from this same survey indicated that they don’t currently have the in-house expertise required to effectively use these tools. This presents a problem as the shortage of gap between workforce demands and skilled cyber security professionals in the field is larger than ever and steadily increasing. According to another report, it is projected that by 2021, 3.5 million cyber security jobs will be unfilled; that’s a 350% increase in open positions from 2013 to 2021.

This panel will provide an understanding on SOAR tools, the importance on training your security team to understand and leverage these tools to more rapidly detect and respond to threats, and ways to attract and retain talent.

It is important to recognize that, overall, the industry has an effectiveness problem. The escalation in threat activity and the talents shortage in the industry has created a situation where, despite lots of products and cybersecurity spend, we aren’t getting better protection. To put a finer point on it, there are over 3,000 vendors selling products in the industry. The total spend last year was $120B+ and even with all of that there we almost 4,000 breaches — a 96% increase over the previous year.​ The key takeaway from these breaches is that they are NOT product failures.​ They are operational failures. ​To prevent these kinds of breaches from happening again in the future, we believe, the industry needs to adopt a new approach – an operational approach – to cybersecurity. ​

The rate of change information technology and security experienced over the past few months has been unprecedented. What’s even more challenging, cybersecurity is itself in a state of transformation as CISOs grapple with new paradigms like cloud security while trying to build a next-generation architecture in the wake of threats that have proven they can evolve faster than traditional controls like signatures, intelligence feeds, and sandboxes.

As pernicious threat actors deploy ‘enemy-AI’ to breach defenses and act on their objectives, the window of time to detect and respond has shrunk dramatically. Can artificial intelligence, specifically deep learning, which has revolutionized areas like self-driving cars, computer vision and medical image diagnosis be used to solve these cybersecurity challenges?

Deep learning is the security weapon of the future as attackers evolve their techniques using sophisticated malicious, morphing malware, ransomware variants created at unprecedented volume and velocity.

Attend this online session with Nayeem Islam, CEO and Founder of Blue Hexagon to learn about how deep learning has evolved, why advances are possible today, and why it is ideal to address the new threat landscape of automated attacks without having to rely on an army of security analysts. He’ll also share some recent real-life examples of evasive threats and ransomware that deep learning caught and traditional security controls missed.

As organization adopt new technologies and utilize the cloud for business innovation and growth, security teams are challenged with ensuring that those initiatives and missions are successful. To do that they are faced with creating an effective security program from a fragmented patchwork of solutions and data sources that really don’t interoperate very well without a great deal of development work.

According to a recent survey, last year 69% of organizations suffered a data breach caused by an Insider Threat, even with a data loss prevention (DLP) solution in place. While malicious users are a legitimate threat to an organization’s security, another study found that 64% of incidents were a result of human error made by an employee. In fact, 78% of Chief Security Officers confessed that even they have clicked on suspicious links.

These statistics demonstrate that having a DLP solution in place with a centralized IT Security team is not sufficient in protecting company assets. Organizations must also address the human element and provide effective ongoing training and education to all employees within the organization.

This panel will discuss the importance of understanding and detecting the various types of Insider Threats that put your organization at risk, as well as provide insight on how to prepare a prevention and defense strategy against an insider breach.

Your vendors often handle your most sensitive data. This presents significant challenges as security, procurement, sourcing, IT, and privacy teams struggle to vet and manage vendor risks in real time. So, how can organizations proactively monitor vendors to protect against emerging threats? Additionally, how can risk exchanges help organizations manage the third-party risk management lifecycle with more efficiency? In this session, we’ll answer these questions and breakdown how risk exchanges offer a mature approach to vendor risk monitoring.​
• Understand third-party risk management trends and challenges ​
• Gain actionable insights on how to monitor third-party risks and performance​
• Learn the benefits of a third-party risk exchange​
• See how you can protect against third-party threats such as data breaches, etc​.

With the proliferation of COVID-19 across the globe, the need for a remote working strategy has become paramount to keep businesses running. Technologies such as Chromebooks, Chrome Browser, and SaaS applications have helped make this strategy a reality, providing access to critical data wherever employees may be working from during this challenging time. However, this way of working has created new security challenges for IT departments, who may not be equipped to address these issues. In this session, we’ll walk through many of Google’s solutions, such as Chrome Enterprise Upgrade, BeyondCorp Remote Access, Chrome Browser Cloud Management, and others, to ensure your business can keep secure, even in a remote working environment.