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Morning Security Briefing with The FBI

Presented by Martin Hellmer, Supervisory Special Agent, The FBI

Morning Keynote with Verizon: Focus Security Where It Matters Most

Enterprises are navigating the perfect storm of digital convergence, struggling to enable digitization across every area of their business while also maintaining a secure environment. The attack surface has expanded, increasing internal/external pressure and security program complexity, while making it nearly impossible to prove return on investment or effectively quantify actual mitigation of risk.

Presented by David Ostertag, Global Investigations Manager, Investigative Response, Verizon

AT&T Discussion: Minimize Risk, Maximize Trust - Lessons in Cybersecurity

Security experts agree that you can never achieve zero risk, so in a world of limited resources there are always tradeoffs to be made. In today’s world the key question is not, do we have a security program.  It’s do we have a security program that actually reduces our risk? For example, can I link my SOC activity back to my business risks?  Learn what other questions you should be asking, and hear why risk quantification and threat modeling are critical components of your multi-layered security strategy.  We’ll also discuss the journey to cyber resilience in the age of FUD.

Presented by Bindu Sundaresan, Strategic Security Solutions Practice Lead, AT&T Cybersecurity Solutions

@RISK Technologies Discussion: Using Artificial Intelligence to Thwart Cyber Threats and Proactively Protect the Enterprise

Specifically, “Network Consensus” synchronizes existing security products using: netflow and packet capture techniques, Dark Web Queries, and Attack Avenue testing in conjunction with IBM Watson’s Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing capabilities. The result is a real-time “situational awareness” for executives, managers and technical staff that provides a single view of the enterprise’s cyber security status and is measured through a balance scorecard.The benefits of automating Post Incident Digital Forensic Investigation (DFI) and its reuse for Pre-Incident Discovery will also be discussed. The objective of the session is to demonstrate how to transform an organization’s security and risk posture, to one that is predictive, preemptive and adaptive, in order to maximize cyber defenses and minimize risk.

PANEL 1: Incident Response Orchestration & Beyond : The CISO and Senior Leadership’s Best Approach to Cyber Defense

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. 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.

Moderated by Mike Smith, Senior Director, Security Solutions, CenturyLink

• Karl Gainey, Director of Sales Engineering, enSilo
• Rafael Los, VP of Solution Strategy, Armor Cloud Security
• Brian NeSmith, CEO and Co-Founder, Arctic Wolf Networks
• Ryan Spelman, Senior Director, Center for Internet Security

CenturyLink Discussion: Using Threat Intelligence to Improve Risk Management

Cyber threats are becoming more pervasive, invasive, and sophisticated. While traditional risk management practices are vitally important, new tools and techniques can greatly improve the efficacy of risk assessments and the treatment of risks they identify. One rapidly evolving capability is the use of threat intelligence tools to identify at-risk systems and networks. But not all threat intelligence tools are the same. In his discussion, Mike describes how to turn tactical threat data into a powerful threat management capability.

Presented by Mike Smith, Senior Director, Security Solutions, CenturyLink

Catered Lunch

PANEL 2: Ransomware: To Pay or Not Pay - That is the Question!

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. 

Moderated by Ryan Spelman, Senior Director, Center for Internet Security

• Mike Lettman, CISO, State of Arizona
• Karl Gainey, Director of Sales Engineering, enSilo
• Michael Haag, Director of Advanced Threat Detection and Research, Red Canary
• Martin Hellmer, Supervisory Special Agent, The FBI
• David Ostertag, Global Investigations Manager, Investigative Response, Verizon

Darktrace Discussion: AI and the Future of Cyber Defense

The cyber-threat landscape is changing. In addition to high-speed attacks, today’s most sophisticated threat-actors are playing a longer game – one that is silent and stealthy. Their objective is to disrupt operations, undermine trust, or simply learn trade secrets by going undetected inside networks.

Digital environments are changing too. Increasing digitization, the surge of IoT devices, and the cloud mean that network boundaries are more porous than ever. Securing the perimeter simply isn’t possible.

To defend against threats that are continually evolving, tomorrow’s cyber security must go beyond looking for yesterday’s attacker – it must find what it doesn’t know to look for. AI technologies have led to the emergence of self-learning, self-defending networks that achieve this – detecting and autonomously responding to in-progress attacks in real time. These cyber immune systems enable the security team to focus on high-value tasks, can counter even machine-speed threats, and work in all environments, including the cloud.

In this session, learn about:

• Navigating new types of cyber-threats, including weaponized AI 
• Overcoming the limitations of the legacy approaches to information security 
• Adopting an ‘immune system’ model for cyber security, powered by machine learning
• The power of AI to fight back autonomously against in-progress attacks 
• Real-world cyber-threats thwarted by machine learning, including IoT hacks and stealthy insider threats
  

Presented by Tommy Nguyen, Cyber Security Executive, Darktrace

PANEL 3: Protecting your Enterprise from the Human Element: Your Employees and Corporate Spies

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.

Moderated by Kent Warren, Senior Vice President, @RISK Technologies

• Jason Fuller, Cyber Security Expert, Mimecast
• Joel Quejada, Cybersecurity Innovation, AT&T
• Ladan Williams, Sr. InfoSec Analyst - Security Awareness Lead, Albertsons Companies
• Homayun Yaqub, Senior Director of Strategy, Forcepoint

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