Defending Against APTs: Understanding Your Enemy’s Plan of Attack

Colby Clark will present a rapid incident response methodology used by the FishNet Security Incident Management team utilizing a combination of best-of-breed solutions to rapidly facilitate all phases of an IR investigation of evolving threats. The methodology begins with identification from network indicators with NetWitness, triage and containment using FireAmp, and in-depth forensic investigations on system artifacts (memory, volatile data, and file system) using EnCase Enterprise.

Is your business safe from malware and targeted attacks? Sophisticated attacks now leverage social engineering techniques and malware to compromise those individuals already on the inside of your enterprise, and then target your data. This session covers the basics of how this continues to happen, despite more money than ever being spent on perimeter and endpoint defenses. We’ll present an eight step incident response model to help prevent, detect and respond to these attacks.

Today's accepted wisdom is that there are only two types of organizations, those that have been breached and know it and those that have been breached and don't. With this new vision comes the realization that building perimeter defenses is no longer enough, but that remediation, situational awareness and fast response time are what separate well secured organizations from the rest.

Join this panel as they discuss the transition to an incident response world and the important operational and philosophical battles that will define it - from the federal and commercial perspectives to using forensics for risk analysis and IT investment and the attribution debate.

Panel:

Tom Field, Vice President, Editorial, Information Security Media Group (moderator)
Bill Hau, VP of FireEye Labs,
Pete Allor, Steering Committee member of FIRST
Vernon Habersetzer, IR Team Lead, Walmart

This webinar will review the methodology lifecycle of a breach at an organization and highlight best-practices and efficiencies that can help your organization learn from breaches and continually strengthen your security posture.

Based on recent high-profile reports of attackers compromising victims long before the breach is discovered, many security professionals want to know: “Are we already compromised?”

Ben Feinstein, Director of our Counter Threat Unit’s operations and development teams, will discuss threat indicators and the subtle traces of an attacker’s tradecraft and presence in your environment. Ben will share findings from helping organizations defend against targeted attacks, focusing on tactics, techniques and procedures exhibited by organized cybercriminals and APT. He will also discuss using threat indicators to learn about the adversary and show how vital this intelligence is to successful incident response.

Key Topics:

· Understanding threat indicators that suggest your organization may already be compromised

· Inspecting networks and hosts for signs of compromise

· Strategies for response when attacker presence is found

Your business needs security solutions that are easy to live with and run on a daily basis. ESET has the best solution from this perspective. This webcast will highlight 2-3 specific atributes and focus the ease of management and implementation.

In this webinar, I will begin with a brief discussion of the different types of attackers, and show how all threat actors are not equal. Then, I will discuss four main ways attackers execute code in a Windows environment. Reviewing real cases of recent attacks, I will show how to detect file execution using static, dynamic, and advanced analysis techniques. I will show how to use artifacts such as the Windows registry, logs, prefetch files, and network data to determine whether an attacker executed files. Finally, there will be a discussion of tools used for forensic analysis, including free tools such as the ShimCacheParser and MANDIANT Redline.

Despite significant time and effort deploying multiple security solutions, incident responders know more than anyone that existing signature-based, “set it and forget it” security technologies have not stopped the advanced persistent threat. Signature- and rule-based technologies are easily evaded with today’s advanced targeted attacks, morphing malware and zero-day threats. Tools like FireEye’s Malware Analysis System are effective in dealing with zero-day malware, but being able to detect this threat does not mean complete resolution.

In addition, sophisticated attackers employ social engineering or take advantage of misconfigurations in security technologies to breach networks – without using any malware at all. Incident responders need full visibility of everything that is going through the network to understand the nature of how a threat originated, see what attackers actually did to take control over the network, and to answer the questions of what they did after they compromised systems. This session will provide an overview of Big Data Security Intelligence and Analytics and how full security visibility can answer the toughest post-breach questions so you can quickly determine the full source, scope and material impact of an incident.

When it comes to organizations experiencing some form of cyber-attack, the adage still rings true: it’s not a question of if but when. Advanced malware, zero-day exploits, and targeted advanced persistent threats (APTs) have kept organizations on their heels and searching for ways to protect themselves. Incident Response teams are being forced to re-examine their existing IT security defenses and attempt to stay ahead of the attack curve. Surprisingly, many incident response teams aren’t doing themselves any favors with practices they have implemented.

Attend this webinar to learn the top 10 mistakes that Incident Response teams make and what you can do to make sure you aren’t making them yourselves.

What vulnerabilities threaten the integrity of your software supply chain and data? Can your enterprise really influence software vendors to meet your most important security policies and remediate insecure software?

Action is needed, and urgently. An alarming 62 percent of all applications fail to reach compliance on their first submission, according to a study recently conducted by Veracode, Enterprise Testing of the Software Supply Chain. While few enterprises now have formal third-party testing programs, those that do find they dramatically improve vendor compliance while meeting industry standards.

Join this webcast with Chris Eng, Veracode's Vice President of Research, and you will learn:

•How leading enterprises now test their software supply chains.
•Analytics drawn from code-level analyses of thousands of third-party applications that support global enterprises.

For the IT employer utilizing contingent or contract worker(s) services there are best practices and considerations that need to be made in order to protect yourself and your employees.

- Do you know how to discuss pay rates, increases or bonuses?
- Do you know how to deal with full-time employment queries, how to properly deal with timecards or forms?
- How do you deal with punctuality, attendance, dress code etc?
- What do you do when you want to terminate or suspend a contingent worker?

These are the common questions we receive and we will provide tangible tools and information that can help protect you as an employer.

Most SMB's use a single point product for each of the different perceived security threats. This has worked in the past, but a far better approach is layering multiple products in a stouter defense.

Are you using or considering a next-generation threat protection solution? Join this webcast and learn how you can multiply the value of your investment by integrating network and endpoint security.

During this session you’ll learn best practices for protecting your network and your endpoints and servers from today's new breed of cyber attacks. You’ll also see firsthand how the integration of network and endpoint security solutions will help you:

・ Automatically confirm and prioritize alerts
・ Provide enterprise-wide visibility of infections to speed investigation
・ Drive remediation
・ Automatically analyze files from endpoints and servers