The Rise of Threat Actor Groups: What You Need to Know

Headlines as we left 2016 and predictions for 2017 suggest that the future of the IT department (including information security) looks to be increasingly reliant upon machines doing the work, courtesy of the adoption and explosion of automation technologies, artificial intelligence and machine learning. How capable can machines ultimately become in securing businesses from an increasing array of threats? What role does this leave for humans?

In this webinar we will look at the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence generally, what it means for businesses and its potential to improve efficiency and security. Which areas of security strategy may have the most to gain and lose in this transformation?

This webinar will:

• Consider the power of AI in threat intelligence, security operations and incident response
• Discuss how AI and predictive analytics can lower risk
• Question whether automation will always require the human factor

Threat intelligence is certainly one of the most talked-about areas of information security today. Recent research conducted by SC Media revealed that 46 percent of security professionals expect threat intelligence to be a very important part of their strategy in 2017.

But when it comes time to choose threat intelligence services and products it can be hard to know where to start. During this webinar, we’ll look at what types of intelligence will prove truly beneficial to your organization and how to get the greatest return on your investment.

Join this webinar to:

• Get best practices and case studies for implementing threat intelligence as part of your own information security strategy.
• Understand the important distinction between threat data and intelligence.
• Gain insight into the value of different intelligence sources and how to work with them.
• Learn about the importance of context in threat intelligence.

Actionable intelligence requires swift analysis and this is only possible with the ability to rapidly sort through vast quantities of data varying in size, source, and format.

Intelligence analysts need the right tools that empower them to make the quick, informed decisions that our national security demands.

Recorded Future and Lumify by Altamira provide a powerful big data fusion, analysis, and visualization platform that supports the development of actionable intelligence. Join this webinar to learn how your agency can:

• Accelerate the transformation of data to valuable insights using Lumify for Recorded Future.
• Discover complex connections and explore diverse relationships in your data.
• Enable sharing across your analytic tools and systems.
• Enhance your analysis with malware samples sandboxed by Recorded Future.

Lumify for Recorded Future enables analysts to quickly discover important relationships across a variety of data sources, driving a more efficient process for gaining actionable intelligence.

One of the best ways to develop an effective cyber defense is to think like your attacker and then develop a commensurate response. A professional penetration tester will explain the ways your IT environment actually comes under attack and offer step-by-step recommendations on how you can prevent those attacks.

In this webinar, learn:

• How online attackers choose their targets
• How cyber criminals research potential victims and find initial points of entry
• The methods attackers use to move laterally through your infrastructure to find sensitive data
• What steps you can take to prevent attackers from targeting your company
• How you can improve your defenses to make targeted attacks less effective

Ransomware hit between 1 in 3 businesses during 2016 and is the fastest growing malware threat according to the U.S. Department of Justice. If you've been laid back about ransomware attacks, now might be a great time to change your ways.

Join Bardia Omran, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at BT, and Allan Liska, Intelligence Architect at Recorded Future, to learn how you can use threat intelligence to help prevent a ransomware attack. This informative webinar will review strategic, educational, and operational approaches your company can employ to help in this fight including:

• Tactics and procedures you should consider implementing.
• How ransomware is used as a tool rather than a stand-alone weapon in targeted attacks.
• Common risks to avoid such as password reuse and the lack of safety training.
• How threat intelligence is used to contextualize indicators of compromise.


Bardia Omran is a Threat Intelligence Analyst in BT Security, UK. Previously, Bardia worked on a service desk where he gained an in-depth knowledge of operating systems. He has a keen interest in malware and has spent the past two years researching it and contributing to BT's Security Threat Intelligence product.

Allan Liska is a solutions architect at Recorded Future. Allan has more than 15 years of experience in information security and has worked as both a security practitioner and an ethical hacker. Through his work at Symantec, iSIGHT Partners, FireEye, and Recorded Future, Allan has helped countless organizations improve their security posture using more effective intelligence. He is the author of “The Practice of Network Security, Building an Intelligence-Led Security Program,” and “Securing NTP: A Quickstart Guide” and the co-author of “DNS Security: Defending the Domain Name System and Ransomware: Defending Against Digital Extortion.”

Finding threats on a corporate network is certainly necessary, but by definition it means the threat has already breached your perimeter and is embedded in your networks. You're now on the defensive. This special report webinar looks at techniques you can use to identify potential breaches before they enter your network.

You'll learn about using off-network threat intelligence to identify not only potential breaches before they attack, but also potential false positives and other network noise that might distract your team and technology from doing their jobs most effectively and efficiently.

While the value of threat intelligence is widely recognized and accepted in today's cyber landscape, many organizations are still struggling to actually implement a workable framework or know what kinds of intelligence might really be useful. Join this webinar for real-world actionable steps to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats, including:

• Understanding the difference between strategic, operational, tactical, and technical threat intelligence.
• Applying threat intelligence to monitor for emerging threats, better prioritize vulnerabilities, and more clearly understand your own threat surface.
• Find the parts of your security operations that can reap the most benefit from the application of relevant threat intelligence.

You’re tired of waiting. Tired of waiting for your technology to alert you that there’s already a problem. You want to be more proactive, sink your hands into those threat intelligence feeds, dig into those behavioral analytics reports, follow one clue after another after another, until it leads you to a would-be attacker, before they finish carrying out their grand plan. What you want is to be a threat hunter.

And why not? Organizations who use threat hunting find it reduces their attack surface and enhances their incident response speed and accuracy. Yet few have formal programs in place with clear methodologies and repeatable processes. Attend this webinar and you’ll learn:

• How threat hunting works
• What a formal threat hunting program looks like
• What skills any threat hunter should have
• The threat hunter’s essential tricks and techniques of the trade

It's critical to anticipate cyber threats and mitigate them before they impact the business of aviation. As technology continues to commoditize and threats evolve, applying best practices for reducing cyber security risk in the air transport industry is key. During this webinar air transport security expert, Dave Ockwell-Jenner at SITA, will explain how:

• Threat intelligence improves security operations center (SOC) efficiency.
• Threat hunting and incident response are enriched by threat intelligence.
• Intelligence sharing can be done right, in the aviation security community and beyond.

Dave Ockwell-Jenner has an extensive background in technology: from building one of the internet’s earliest major websites, to helping secure some of the world’s most critical systems. In his current role with air transport industry IT provider, SITA, Dave leads a team of cyber security professionals dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure against cyber threats. Cyber threat intelligence is a central part of SITA's security strategy, not just to defend the enterprise, but to extend a suite of capabilities to customers, partners, and the industry as a whole. Originally from the UK, Dave now lives with his family in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada — home to one of Canada's most vibrant entrepreneurial and high-tech communities.

We hear a lot of talk about threat intelligence and about how important it is to implement it, but we don’t get a lot of useful guidance on how a company that has yet to employ the technology can integrate it into an existing network. It's not sufficient to generate reports that have nuggets of crucial data mixed amongst the noise of network activity. You need to have staff that can analyze these reports and identify the crucial data, along with technology that makes it easier for crucial data to stand out.

- What you need to know about how to implement threat intelligence
- How to draw actionable information from the mass of data points that the technology generates

About the speakers:

Bryan Spano
Cyber Security Leader/Professional, CISSP, PMP

Experienced cyber leader with broad technical and business experience from military, federal law enforcement, and private sector roles. Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)

Chris Pace
Technology Advocate, EMEA, Recorded Future

Chris works for Recorded Future to engage and educate audiences on the power of real-time threat intelligence, using his extensive experience delivering security solutions to all kinds of organizations. Before beginning a career in information security, Chris trained as a Broadcast Journalist and also has worked in IT departments in the public and private sectors.

Ransomware can be more disturbing and damaging than any other cyber crime, and payouts seem to be on the rise. Now, a new brand of extortion is emerging, where criminals threaten to sell data obtained from ransomware campaigns on the cyber criminal underground. Join this webinar to learn about the mastermind behind an infamous ransomware campaign, the mindset of criminals no longer content with small payouts, what role threat intelligence plays, and the pros and cons of paying off criminals.

At this point in cyber security, mostly everyone knows what threat intelligence is, but how do you actually apply it? Many think feeds are the be all and end all for security teams. Feeds can be helpful, but in many cases they're binary and, while useful for comparison with internal security data, they might not give you the context you really crave.

In this webinar, we will:

- Go beyond feeds and look at specific technical, open, and dark web sources that, when combined, can open you to the multifaceted world of available threat intelligence.
- Discuss the varied applications for this intelligence, not just for your SIEM, but every phase of the information security lifecycle
- Show how the combination of a breadth of sources can save you hours of analysis time

About the Speakers:

Dave Shackleford - Analyst - SANS Institute

Dave Shackleford is the owner and principal consultant of Voodoo Security and a SANS analyst, senior instructor, and course author. He has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and network architecture and engineering, and is a VMware vExpert with extensive experience designing and configuring secure virtualized infrastructures. He has previously worked as CSO for Configuresoft, CTO for the Center for Internet Security, and as a security architect, analyst, and manager for several Fortune 500 companies. Dave is the author of the Sybex book Virtualization Security.

Chris Pace - Technology Advocate - Recorded Future

Chris works for Recorded Future to engage and educate audiences on the power of real-time threat intelligence, using his extensive experience delivering security solutions to all kinds of organizations. Before beginning a career in information security, Chris trained as a Broadcast Journalist and also has worked in IT departments in the public and private sectors.

Scratch the surface of the public internet and you'll quickly descend into the world of the deep and dark web. A place where secrets, malware and exploits are traded might not be a place where corporate teams want to tread.

However, the dark web holds a wealth of threat intelligence which, when put in the right context, can help organizations bolster their security.

By monitoring the hidden web for mentions of your brand or your industry, it is possible to pick up advanced notice of threats and exploits before they become an uncontrollable risk, but how do legitimate security officers mine the dark and deep webs safely, combine with technical intelligence from other sources, and use these data to their advantage?

In this webinar we'll look at:

• The security intelligence hidden on the dark web.

• Ways to monitor and mine below the surface web for information.

• Ways of feeding dark web information into other threat intelligence.

• How to turn threat intelligence and threat hunting into tools the business can use to improve its security stance.

Hashes, IPs, domains, oh my, what am I to do with all this data? Analyze it. For threat intelligence to provide the proper context, you need to understand your audience and the requirements for intelligence consumption. Open source intelligence provides a capability for collecting intelligence data, but without analysis and requirements, collection efforts could produce a wild goose chase and provide little value.

In this webinar, Rob Gresham, Senior Consultant with Intel Security, will cut to the chase to answer relevant questions such as:

• Do I have data in the dark web and is it being sold?
• What are my greatest risks and are they exploitable?
• Has that exploit been used?

Rob will discuss the contextual threat intelligence process, and share tips and tools that will help you make threat intelligence actionable beyond just the bits and bytes.

Creating a threat intelligence strategy is essential for a company to identify and prioritize threats effectively. Curating the necessary relevant data for this strategy, however, can be incredibly time consuming and resource intensive.

In this webinar, Greg Reith, Threat Intelligence Analyst at T-Mobile, will discuss how to use real-time threat intelligence from Recorded Future to create a forward-looking strategy, including:

• Identifying and analyzing hard-to-find threat data from the entire web including content in multiple languages.
• Gaining relevant intelligence effectively from large volumes of threat data with smart automation, alerts, and queries.
• Discovering trends and patterns that are useful in developing a forward-looking shift in strategy from multiple perspectives.

Find out how you can reduce the time to collect the necessary information for building an effective threat intelligence strategy by over 400 percent.

Today’s cyber security professionals have evolved well beyond simply reacting to data breaches.

Certainly every bit akin to James Bond's 007 agent in the battle against corporate cyber attacks, state-sponsored assaults on corporate data or targeted, criminal data breaches, executive leaders like you must now be prepared to not only mitigate attacks but have some data prior in order to better fend off these onslaughts.

As such, threat intelligence is no less essential in defending against today’s cyber attack than political intelligence is needed in the world of global affairs of state. This webinar looks at the changing landscape in threat intelligence and how to create actionable defenses from the multiple data streams available today.

Anticipate and prioritize unknown threats better in Splunk with richer IOC context from the entire web enabled by real-time threat intelligence from Recorded Future. We will be joined by Vijay Chauhan, Director, Global Strategic Alliances – Security Markets for Splunk ES, who will provide an overview of the Adaptive Response Initiative.

Watch this webinar and learn how to:

• Enrich data in Splunk with emerging threat indicators, actors, and new vulnerabilities from Recorded Future.
• Automatically correlate suspicious network observables with OSINT context from Recorded Future.
• Enhance the effectiveness of your security operations center (SOC) by actively prioritizing unknown threats.

Recorded Future combined with Splunk's Adaptive Response Framework empowers analysts to proactively identify, prioritize, and mitigate emerging threats.

During this premium webinar you'll learn the fundamentals for adding threat intelligence to your security operations center (SOC).

Whether you're just getting started with threat intelligence, or you want to brush up on the basics, this webinar will serve as your guide to setting up and integrating a successful threat intelligence strategy for your SOC.

Join SANS instructor Chris Crowley and Recorded Future's Glenn Wong for an overview on:

* Interaction from SOC functions to other parts of the business
* People and skillsets to make the SOC effective
* Processes to have a repeatable and effective operation
* How to quickly dismiss non-critical incidents with threat intelligence
* How to detect important incidents that are otherwise missed
* How to gain threat awareness beyond your network

Content is based on the new SANS MGT517 course entitled "Managing Security Operations: Detection, Response, and Intelligence."