Atlanta 2021

The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem report in October 2019 called IoT and OT device security, “one of the hardest problems to solve within the enterprise.” Join this webinar to learn how Forescout allows organizations to mitigate risk and embrace Zero Trust architecture for all managed, unmanaged, virtual or physical IP-connected systems across your extended enterprise.

This webinar will discuss how to:

• Eliminate risk by identifying, understanding and controlling access to all devices, users, apps and workloads
• Map data flows to design segmentation policies and simulate them for non-disruptive deployment
• Maximize ROI and extend Zero Trust architecture across campus, cloud, data center and IT/OT environments using your existing technologies

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.

Financially motivated data breaches are similar to and different from espionage motives data breaches. Dave Grady and John Grim will compare financially-motivated and espionage-motivated data breaches. Specifically Dave and John will cover the:

• Aspects of Financial Motive Breaches
• Aspects of Espionage Motive Breaches
• Comparison between motives and the countermeasures required

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.

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:

With the dramatic increase in distributed workforces and the growing adoption of cloud applications, companies face unprecedented levels of IP, data, and identity sprawl beyond the enterprise firewall. Every endpoint is an entry into your business, cybercriminals have more ways to break in than ever before, and human error on the inside is a constant risk. Historically, endpoint security has been a zero-sum game—with the odds inevitably stacked against IT. But rather than protect devices, what if you could just control the security of them?
In this presentation, see how Chrome OS and Chrome Browser are secure by design—embedding security into every workflow to provide proactive protection for users, devices, applications, and data, wherever work happens. This is cloud-first security control in the hands of the modern businesses that will thrive moving forward.

Over the past few years the number of organizations that have become reliant on cloud based systems has grown exponentially largely due to the pandemic. In turn this has forced cloud security to become an even larger threat posed at IT security executives & teams. The sheer number of cloud service based cyberattacks between January and October of 2020 increased 630% a report by McAffee states and shows no sign of slowing down in 2021.

According to a recent Gartner analysis the greatest threat to cloud security will be the “distributed cloud”. A distributed cloud is simply a hybrid cloud with a mix of business processes migrating to public & private cloud systems. While this allows for greater flexibility, lower cost and greater ROI it is posing as a significant threat to your organization’s cloud security. Cyber criminals look to focus on gaps in a cloud structure and misconfigurations, a significant concern for many who are adapting to a cloud-based workforce. This panel of industry experts will discuss the future of cloud security, best practices to mitigate cloud security threats, highlight areas where cloud systems are most vulnerable to an attack and ways to minimize common misconfiguration errors.