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Organizations are increasingly moving their workloads to the cloud to achieve greater agility, flexibility, and cost savings. In fact, spending on cloud infrastructure services will grow from $39.5 billion in 2019 to $63 billion through 2021 [according to Gartner].

However, when transitioning to the cloud, it’s critical to understand that cloud security is a shared responsibility between the cloud service provider and the customer. The cloud service provider typically secures the core infrastructure and services while securing operating systems, platforms, and data remains the responsibility of the customer.

As your organization formulates a cloud security strategy, it is important to remember that the #1 cause of today’s breaches is privileged access abuse. And it takes just one single compromised privileged credential to impact millions of data records and result in millions of dollars in fines.

To limit their exposure to these attacks, organizations need to move to an identity-centric approach based on a Zero Trust model: “never trust, always verify, enforce least privilege”. This concept should be extended to the organization’s workforce, as well as partners, privileged IT admins, and outsourced IT.

Our webinar, Best Practices for Securely Moving Workloads to the Cloud:
- Reviews the state of cloud computing;
- Details the key threats for cloud environments;
- Identifies 6 best practices for boosting cloud security confidence in a world of Zero Trust;
- Showcases how to apply these best practices to critical privileged cloud access use cases;
- Shares a customer success story; and
- Outlines the benefits of Zero Trust Privilege.

Is your perception of cloud security matching the reality?

We surveyed security decision makers worldwide to understand their perceptions of the cloud security landscape and compared this to empirical data sources monitored by Symantec.

Join Cloud security experts, Jim Reavis, Co-Founder & CEO at Cloud Security Alliance, and Kevin Haley, Director Security Technology and Response at Symantec as they discuss:

• Key findings from the 2019 Cloud Security Threat Report

• Real world examples of security threats and whether the perception of cloud security matched up to the evolving cloud threat.

• Emerging trends in cloud security that can help you respond to the evolving attack surface.

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Security teams are frequently blind to the IT and Operational Technology (OT) assets, internal and external connections, and vulnerabilities on their industrial control system networks. This visibility gap is one of the key challenges highlighted in a new survey report from the Ponemon Institute.

To learn more about the report and how its findings compare with your organization’s experience, please join Robert Healey, APAC Marketing Director, Tenable, for the webinar: “Cybersecurity in Operational Technology: 7 Insights You Need to Know.”

All infosec professionals responsible for and interested in effectively securing converged IT/OT environments are encouraged to join this webinar.

Vulnerabilities are a fact of life; risk comes with it. Today, companies, enterprises, & governments are embracing collaboration with hackers to find vulnerabilities before criminals have a chance to exploit them. Using 6 years of data from 1,300+ bug bounty programs & 100,000+ valid vulnerabilities, this talk offers new analysis of the most common vulnerabilities not found on the OWASP top 10.

Using containers in AWS enables agile orchestration of application capabilities and require less coordination and oversight than on-premises or virtualization infrastructure. While containers allow you to build and release fast, security teams need to assess how they maintain security for these new capabilities.

In this session, experts from AWS and Lacework will explain how to use Amazon Container Services to easily deliver applications, and how to automate container security so you can enable your DevOps team to build fast while remaining secure.

In modern cyber battlefield, we face new threats daily where signatures are not necessarily known. Identifying these anomalies in regular behavior is the core of User Behavior Analysis (UBA). Common UBA applications include detection of malicious insider threats, privilege misuse, and compromised accounts. Analytics tools help make sense of varied information provided by security systems to identify potential risks. At Adobe, we generate vast amounts of security data in form of application, system and other logs. In addition, we have environment context data like employee role details and configuration management database (CMDB) data. This security data is an immense source of security intelligence. If collected diligently, the answers are already present, but the trick is to ask the right questions. This information can be compared against a security standard to find security gaps that need to be remediated, which is reactive security. However, if we use machine learning techniques and other analytics tools to ask the right questions, we can proactively identify anomalous activities.

All of this is part of our broader strategy around Project ZEN – our zero-trust enterprise network initiative first introduced to the ISACA audience at CSX 2018. This talk will dive into more specifics about how ZEN works – specifically around UBA. We leverage UBA to help meet the most recent NIST guidelines around user passwords and remove the need for password changes at regular intervals. We will provide summit attendees with a blueprint they can use for a significant part of their own zero-trust network efforts. We hope that you can learn best practices from our approach that you can leverage in implementing more effective UBA at your organization.

Zero Trust is trending. Every expo show floor is inundated with this concept that promises to transform of corporate security from a well-known failed perimeter-centric model. In this session, we will discuss what is Zero Trust, why are enterprises adopting it to fix some of security’s biggest challenges and how to get started.

Passwords have been the de-facto standard for authentication in the last 40 years, but end users hate them. Not to mention they aren't considered safe anymore - 81% of hacking-related account breaches leveraged weak or stolen passwords. While password + 2FA is a recommended approach by NIST, 2FA may still be hackable.

WebAuthn promises a safer, phishing-resistant protocol and easier authentication standard for web applications. But can it live up to it's hype? Join this session to learn about WebAuthn and understand how you can build strong auth with WebAuthn into your applications.

New Services and Tools for Supporting First-line-practitioners and Law Enforcement Agencies.

In recent years, Europe has been at increased risk of extremist violence and terrorism – from Islamic fundamentalists, far-right fascist hate groups and others, fueled by online radicalization and encrypted communication networks. At the same time, national and international law enforcement agencies are battling growing networks of organized criminals that are increasingly taking their activities online, using the notorious underground ‘dark web’ to commit illegal acts.

Faced with these threats, the EU-funded TAKEDOWN project (https://www.takedownproject.eu) is developing tools to understand why people turn to terrorism or organized crime, and what can be done to combat the problem. Due to the increasing relevance of the cyber-domain, the project also addressed the issues of (cyber)terrorism and organized (cyber)crime and put a particular focus on the nexus or the hybrids of organized crime and terrorism. 
 
The webinar, presented by the coordinator of the H2020-project TAKEDOWN, will address…
- The outcomes of the research conducted in the project. Focusing on the main conclusions related to the nexus and the hybrids.
- The main practical outcomes of the project the two web platforms, www.firstlinepractitioners.com (for practitioners) and www.fightcrimeterrorism.com (law enforcement agencies and solution providers)

As your workforce becomes more distributed, security is even more critical. Protecting the network is important but it’s no longer enough to secure applications and data. That’s why adoption of a Zero Trust security framework is on the rise.

Interested in more data on how your peers are adopting Zero Trust to protect their apps, data and distributed workforce? Join our webinar where we’ll discuss:
- The full Zero Trust architecture and the steps to get there
- Where organizations struggle in reaching Zero Trust and how to overcome barriers
- Your peer’s top priorities for next year

The rapid adoption of cloud and mobile in the enterprise is powering the transformation of legacy IT systems to more modern technology and processes. The business benefits of speed and agility for the enterprise can’t be denied, but the challenge is that security is often not considered a part of this digital transformation. The result is new blind spots are introduced in this cloud- and mobile-first world and legacy security tools are ineffective when it comes to protecting your data.

In this session, we will discuss the new blind spots that exist in today's cloud- and mobile-first world and 5 steps you can take to help ensure that your data is protected.

Join this session to learn:

- About new blind spots that exist in today’s cloud- and mobile-first world
- Why legacy security tools are ineffective
- 5 steps to covering these new blind spots

Cloud is dramatically expanding your attack surface and introducing new visibility challenges into infrastructure security. Without foundational visibility, it’s nearly impossible to execute other cloud security programs supporting compliance, policy enforcement, and vulnerability remediation. Cyber Exposure is a cybersecurity discipline to provide visibility into traditional IT and cloud infrastructure to help you manage and measure cyber risk. Cyber Exposure allows you answer three fundamental questions in your cloud environment:
- Where are we exposed?
- What should we focus on first?
- How are we reducing exposure over time?

Join us as we demystify Cyber Exposure, show how it can help you secure cloud infrastructure, and provide best practices to help you get started on your Cyber Exposure journey.

Cloud computing provides improved security, agility and flexibility. However, integrating this new service into legacy IT environments comes with great concern.

The Cloud Security Alliance has recently surveyed over 700 IT and network security professionals from around the globe on security challenges in cloud environments. In this research, security, data loss and compliance were identified as the top 3 concerns when moving to the cloud. In the face of increasingly complex environments, cloud visibility and expertise are essential to ensuring a manageable, secure and fluent transition to a native cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment.

In this webinar Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager at AlgoSec will review and analyze the findings from the new CSA report “Cloud Security Complexity: Challenges in Managing Security in Native Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments”, including:

• Types of cloud platforms being used by companies
• Common challenges faced by companies when moving workloads to the cloud
• The many stakeholder involved in cloud security
• Methods of managing risk and vulnerabilities in the cloud environment
• Causes of network or application outages and the amount of time it took to remediate

It's easy blame employees for poor password and email hygiene, but in reality, human error isn't going to go away. Every organization will always have a "Kanye" with poor operational security and weak passwords. IT and Security teams have to acknowledge the “desire paths” across the security landscape, and ensure that we not only keep up, but facilitate ease of access while maintaining our security perimeter.

There’s no guarantee on the tech savvy nature or level of care an employee will bring to the table, so we need to move the table closer to them and provide a safe harbor where mistakes are allowed to occur. In this session Aaron Zander, Head of IT for HackerOne, and Gen Buckley, Senior Analyst for Security and Compliance at Okta, will discuss the various ways to enable a security culture without crippling your coworkers.