New York 2021

Join Alethea Duhon discussing CISA’s Cyber Security Priorities for the Next 5 Years & Areas for Partnership

Among rapidly evolving technological advancements, the emergence of AI-enhanced malware is making cyber-attacks exponentially more dangerous, and harder to identify. As AI-driven attacks evolve, they will be almost indistinguishable from genuine activity, and conducted at an unprecedented speed and scale. In the face of offensive AI, only defensive AI can fight back, detecting even the most subtle indicators of attack in real time, and respond with surgical actions to neutralize threats – wherever they strike.  

In this session, discover: 

·         How cyber-criminals are leveraging AI tools to create sophisticated cyber weapons  

·         What an AI-powered spoofing threat may look like, and why humans will not be able to spot them 

·         Why defensive AI technologies are uniquely positioned to fight back  

As each organization implements a layered security program, across a distributed infrastructure and shared responsibility with their service providers, how can they gain visibility into malicious activity and orchestrate effective, business-wide responses to attacks?

Implementing great tools for IAM, PAM, Network, Data and Application security address many of the layers of controls required. Deploying solutions such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, MDR and XDR provide varying levels of visibility and detection and response, however these silos need to be far better connected for maximum effectiveness and return on your investment.

Join IBM Security to hear how we see this all coming together while keeping the solutions that are already working well for you.

Join Verizon’s Chief Security Evangelist, Dave Grady and Philippe Langlois, a co-author of Verizon’s legendary annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), for a look at the recent painstaking mapping of these two leading security frameworks. Langlois will explain how this effort can help security professionals improve how they communicate about cybersecurity incidents with technical and executive stakeholders alike

The SolarWinds SUNBURST attack was a rude awakening for many security teams, and it won’t be the last time Security leaders face tough questions about how an adversary evaded defenses and stayed hidden. With threats persisting inside the network for months, security teams need a new plan. In this session, CISO Jeff Costlow discusses strategies, including revising existing mental models and incident response processes, to build resilience in the fight against advanced threats.

Over the past few years, the number of organizations that have adopted cloud-based systems has grown exponentially, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In turn, cloud security has become a critical issue for IT security executives and their teams. McAffee reported an increase of 630% in attacks by external actors targeting cloud services between January and April of 2020. This uptick in cloud security breaches is projected to persist even after the pandemic as many companies continue to utilize the cloud and leverage its benefits.

While migrating to the cloud offers numerous advantages, it also poses certain threats and challenges. In a recent report by Oracle & KPMG, over 90% of IT Professionals felt their organization had a cloud security readiness gap. A significant concern for many who are adapting to a cloud-based workforce is misconfigurations and gaps in cloud security programs. Additionally, cloud-based infrastructure requires adopting new security policies and processes. Many companies believe their existing security teams lack the necessary skillsets and knowledge that the cloud environment requires, especially as organizations turn to multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and distributed cloud models.

This panel will highlight the areas where cloud systems can leave enterprises vulnerable, ways to minimize common misconfiguration errors, and other best practices to mitigate threats when migrating to the cloud. Our lineup of Industry Experts will provide their expertise on developing a robust cloud security strategy that addresses these issues and insight on how to stay secure in the future of cloud security.

Today’s adversaries are more motivated and capable than ever to find ways to exploit our systems and data. Unfortunately, no industry is immune—including our critical infrastructure.  As we have seen with recent attacks, adversaries and cyber criminals will stop at nothing when it comes to financial gain and causing disruption.  This includes financial services who remain under constant attack and need to stay one-step ahead. This session will focus on the who, what, and how organizations can protect their systems and data while ensuring their operations, brand, and revenue remain intact.

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. ​

Insider Threat has become increasingly problematic to businesses as the frequency and cost of these threats have risen over the last several years. In a global study conducted by Ponemon Institute in September of 2019, there was a 31% increase in overall cost of Insider Threat and a 47% increase in the total number of Insider Incidents from 2018.

Today, Insider Threat poses an even greater risk to businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Forrester Research, Inc. reported that in 2020, a quarter of all security breaches were caused by an insider and estimates that in 2021, Insider Threats will account for 33% of security breaches.

This panel will discuss the various factors that contribute to this increase in Insider breaches, how remote work has impacted the malicious & non-malicious Insider Threats facing businesses, and the implications this has on enterprises today. Our lineup of Industry Experts will offer their insight & provide best-practices on how businesses and their IT Security Teams should address these risks and adapt in order to defend against Insider Threats.

Secure access service edge has quickly emerged as a hot topic in cybersecurity, but what exactly does it mean and why should organizations care? As cloud migration, BYOD adoption, and remote work have skyrocketed in prevalence, it has become increasingly apparent that organizations need to think differently about security. While legacy tools like firewalls are no longer equipped to handle the modern IT ecosystem, SASE platforms like Bitglass are built for this exact moment. In this presentation, you will learn:

• The core components of a SASE platform like Bitglass.
• The functionality you need to secure cloud, web, and remote access use cases.
• Architectural considerations you should keep in mind when comparing SASE vendors. 

With the Passwordless Decade well underway, more and more organizations are asking the question: Why is now the right time to move beyond passwords?

George Avetisov, CEO of HYPR, will discuss the rise of organizations moving to the cloud, how the perimeter fades and the attack surface gets larger. Modern tools such as SNIPR and Modlishka make it easier for hackers to launch large-scale automated attacks, bringing credential re-use and two-factor-authentication attacks to record highs. 

How did we get here, and will mainstream adoption of passwordless security have an impact? We will explore how the rise of virtual desktop infrastructure and a remote workforce has affected workstation login and review how the evolution of authentication has impacted organizations’ identity and access management systems.

In this session, you’ll learn:

If you’re a growing modern business, you likely have an appetite for the secure access service edge (SASE). We hate to break it to you, but there’s no “secret sauce” when it comes to successfully implementing the SASE framework. Every organization is different, with variying priorities for protecting their employees, customers, data, devices, and applications. It’s best to look at SASE as a themed menu of converged technologies that allows you to choose ones that will deliver the maximum business impact. During this discussion featuring Menlo Security’s Senior Director of Cybersecurity Strategy, Mark Guntrip, he invites you to take a seat at the SASE table to learn about the deployment menu you can build for your organization. Attendees can expect to learn:

• Why Zero Trust and SASE are the perfect pairings
• How SASE enables organizations to taste productivity gains
• How organizations can create a mix of satisfying integrated controls

Cloud security is hard, not least because cloud platforms change so quickly.  This talk presents several lessons learned from security teams struggling to get their arms around the sprawl of modern infrastructure, using practical analogies from pandemics and earthquakes.

Nation States, Non-Nation State Actors, Hacktivists, enterprise cyber criminals, shadow government agencies, terrorist organizations, loosely affiliated groups are using this next level $#@! as we speak to conduct cyber warfare: irregular warfare and proxy attacks, disinformation and disruption campaigns, “truth decay” (‎RAND Corp); to manipulate and influence public opinion, foment criminal violence; infiltrate organizations to conduct fraud, scam, and harass; highjack legitimate real human accounts for impersonation; and to distribute malware. These are very interesting times we are living in and this is the new cyber battleground.

In 2020, there was an unprecedented growth in ransomware attacks and this trend shows no signs of slowing down. Rather, these attacks are evolving and becoming more harmful as cyber criminals become more organized and effective. It is predicted that in 2021, businesses will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds with an estimated cost of over $20 billion – 57 times more than in 2015, making ransomware the fastest growing type of cybercrime.

As a result, companies are transitioning from the traditional “trust but verify” method and implementing a Zero Trust model, requiring all users to be authenticated and continually authorized in order to be granted access and maintain access to company data and applications. By leveraging various technologies & techniques such as multifactor authentication, IAM, least privilege access, and microsegmentation, the Zero Trust model reduces the risk of a ransomware attack and minimizes the potential damage from a breach.

This panel will highlight where enterprises are most vulnerable to becoming a victim of ransomware and how utilizing a Zero Trust model minimizes this risk. Industry experts will discuss best practices to avoid a ransomware attack including adapting the Zero Trust model, what to do if your company is being held for ransom, ways to mitigate the damage caused by an attack, and how to recover afterwards.

Over the past year, the tools and tactics of cybercrime and cybersecurity adapted against a backdrop of enormous changes to our lives and businesses.

Join us to learn how cybercrime evolved in 2020, and identify ways to safeguard your organization against what’s out there.

We’ll explore:

• Top threats for businesses and consumers
• Emerging cybercrime trends and tactics
• Solutions you can employ to thwart future attacks

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.