Name: The Reality of Ransomware Attacks
Start: 2022-11-04T20:00:00Z
End: 2022-11-04T20:00:44.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.8

Absolute Software is a leader in Endpoint Resilience™ solutions and the industry’s only undeletable defense platform embedded in over a half-billion devices. Enabling a permanent digital tether between the endpoint and the enterprise who distributed it, Absolute provides IT and Security organizations with complete connectivity, visibility, and control, whether a device is on or off the corporate network, and empowers them with Self-Healing Endpoint™ security to ensure mission-critical apps remain healthy and deliver intended value. For the latest information, visit www.absolute.com and follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Resilience. It’s a word we’ve heard a lot this past year. From supply chains to telework infrastructure, and even our own mental health, we’ve all shown resilience in the face of the pandemic. Have our devices done the same?

The realities of digital transformation, combined with widespread work-from-home solutions, have ushered in a new wave of threats to endpoint devices. The result is a security landscape more complex than ever.

We commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study surveying IT and security professionals about the challenges they face today and uncovered an essential capability to overcome them: endpoint resilience.

Join Absolute and out guest speaker, Forrester’s Senior Analyst for Security and Risk, Chris Sherman, for a live discussion on the key data points and findings—and three recommendations to help your organization take a more proactive approach to endpoint security.

You'll learn:

- What endpoint resilience is, and how it solves current security challenges
- Ways to balance endpoint threat protection with detection, visibility, and control
- How to prove the ROI of security investments with a proactive strategy

Endpoint Resilience as a Proactive Security Strategy - with guest Forrester

Join renowned cybersecurity innovator and former CISO of Citi, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank, Charles Blauner, for a fireside chat with Absolute CEO, Christy Wyatt, as they explore managing complexity amidst the ever-evolving threat landscape

Together, they'll explore the biggest challenges facing security teams today, with topics including:
• The evolving role of CISO – where to focus amidst competing priorities
• How to measure – and mitigate – the impact of complexity
• The critical question that CISOs aren’t asking today – and what’s at stake when it’s overlooked
• The importance of endpoint resilience in risk management strategies

All attendees will also receive The Third Question white paper, featuring additional insight from Charles and:
• Todd Inskeep, former Cybersecurity Executive, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Lou Klubenspies, CISO and Senior Director, IT Risk, PerkinElmer
• Malcolm Harkins, Former CISO, Intel

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Featured Speakers:
• Charles Blauner - Former Global Head of Information Security, Citi; former CISO, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank; Partner & CISO in Residence, Teams8 Group; President, Cyber Aegis Consulting; Strategic Advisor, Absolute Software
• Christy Wyatt - President & CEO of Absolute

The Third Question: What CISOs Aren't Asking, and What's at Stake

You’ve made a solid investment in IT security. After all, you're not about to let your organization fall prey to cyber threats.

Here's the bad news: those top-rated, ironclad applications you've got securing your endpoints?

They are going to fail.

Causes can range from inadvertent user interference to conflict between competing applications. And whenever a failure occurs, remediation can take days. Or weeks.

If only there was a way to make those critical applications self-healing.

There is.

And our product experts can’t wait to show you how in our latest webinar.

You'll learn:

• What Application Persistence means, and why it’s so important
• Applications that can be persisted
• How to enable, configure and activate Application Persistence policies
• How to report on app health & compliance

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Featured Speakers:

Isha Khaira / Customer Success Manager / Absolute
Neeraj Annachhatre / Product Marketing Manager / Absolute

Application Persistence: How to Secure Your Security

Our study of over 10,000 schools and districts examines the effects of distance learning on endpoint health, device usage, safety, and security as schools adapt to remote and hybrid learning models in 2020/21.

Join us as we review the findings of our landmark report, highlighting key trends and revealing a strategic blueprint for modern learning environments. This is a must-see event for IT professionals working in K-12 education.

Learn vital insights on these topics and more:

• Managing school devices in distance and hybrid learning environments
• Visibility into remote classrooms
• Keeping data and devices safe

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Featured Speakers:
Surita Bains, Director, Product Management | Absolute
Dave Mundo, VP, Data Intelligence, Research & Development | Absolute

Distance Learning’s Impact on Education IT

This new era of remote work could just as easily be known as the era of sensitive data on remote devices. In fact, we've tracked nearly a 60% increase in instances of sensitive data on endpoints since the end of March*.

That's why we're providing you with even more ways to control yours — which we can't wait to show you in our latest webinar.

Our product experts will demonstrate the intelligence and tools you can use to manage devices with at-risk data — anytime and from anywhere.

You'll learn:

• How to improve critical compliance reporting using custom scheduled reports
• What to do when a device with sensitive information goes missing — but you’re not at your computer
• How to ensure security controls and freeze missing devices remotely using our new mobile app.

*Impact of COVID-19 on Remote Work and Distance Learning Dashboard 

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Featured Speakers:
Bryce Ashdown, Senior Director, UX Design/Product Management | Absolute
Kenny Pak, Lead Onboarding Specialist, Customer Experience | Absolute

Standardize your compliance reporting & control your remote devices

As an Absolute customer, you understand the importance of securing your devices, apps, and data. But a world of remote work has introduced new challenges. Since the end of March, we've tracked a 43% rise in incidences of sensitive data on endpoints.

You already have the tools at your disposal to manage and secure remote devices — and we’ll show you how to best make use of them.

• How to use Absolute to restrict access to devices and protect sensitive data — within your existing IT processes
• The many uses of Device Freeze, including forcing updates and responding to security threats
• Data protection tips using Device Wipe and Data Delete
• Plus: best practices for optimizing end-of-life workflow with Absolute

You’ll leave this session with practical advice for managing and securing remote endpoints.

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Featured Speakers:
Troy Knihnitski, Senior Customer Success Manager | Absolute
Murray Maleschuk, Senior Technical Product Manager | Absolute

3 Essential Actions to Manage and Secure Remote Devices

Absolute and featured guest Forrester, reveal key trends impacting endpoint health, fragility, and complexity – and the unexpected challenges introduced by remote work and distance learning.

Increased spend hasn’t improved endpoint security. New tools have introduced new vulnerabilities. The need to support remote work and learning environments has increased complexity on the endpoint – making existing approaches less effective overall.

Backed by results from The State of Endpoint Resilience™ 2020 – Absolute’s breakthrough annual study of 8.5 million devices, this webinar explores the hidden forces threatening endpoint resilience – and the steps necessary to protect against them.

Join Absolute’s EVP of Product, Ameer Karim; and Forrester’s Senior Analyst, Security and & Risk, Chris Sherman as they reveal the most significant trends shaping data and device security now and in the year ahead, including:

• Global trends in endpoint resilience – what IT and security teams are prioritizing and what’s getting missed
• Emerging challenges for CIOs and CISOs as environments evolve in the face of COVID-19
• Data-driven strategies for ensuring resilient, unbreakable endpoint protection

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Featured Speakers:
Chris Sherman - Senior Analyst Serving Security & Risk Professionals - Forrester
Ameer Karim - Executive Vice President, Product - Absolute

The State of Endpoint Resilience in 2020 | Featuring Forrester

Success stories from the front lines of the remote learning transition with  Eric Ramos, CTO of California’s Duarte Unified School District, as guest speaker.

Preparing for a new school year is always challenging — and never more so than now.

The learning environment you support could be a classroom — or a kitchen table. Devices need to be configured, issued, tracked, and monitored — whether new, returned this year, or still in students’ hands. New apps may introduce new vulnerabilities, and new programs will require new ways of measuring success.

The only certainty? Preparing for any eventuality — but how?

Amidst this year’s chaos, success stories have emerged. Absolute’s K-12 peer advice series is a forum for you to learn what’s working in other schools and districts, share your challenges, and gain insight from others tackling the same.

Our first session features Eric Ramos, CTO of California’s Duarte Unified School District, sharing the steps they’ve taken to:

• Maintain student/teacher connectivity and access to online curriculae
• Protect student safety by identifying and taking action on risky online activity
• Measure application ROI to justify budget expenditures
• Confidently leave their fleet with students — even turning the impossibility of device collection into an opportunity for emotional connection

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Featured Speakers:
- Eric Ramos - Chief Technology Officer - Duarte Unified School District
- Surita Bains - Director of Product Management for Education - Absolute

K-12 Peer Advice Forum - What’s Working for IT and Security Teams

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated with each passing day. It is crucial for companies to build a strong cybersecurity leadership team to address both present and evolving cyber threats. 

This talk from University of Washington's Deveeeshree Nayak will focus on the key strategies to build a leadership pipeline in cybersecurity to address common cyberthreats organizations will face. 

Key Takeaways:
- Best practices to build a strong cybersecurity leadership team.
- Key strategies to collaborate with a non-technical team.
- Tips to create a diverse and inclusive leaderships team.

How to Build a Successful Cybersecurity Team

Tune into this session and hear a walk-through scope on how to design a responsive playbook that will account for current threats and establish active continuum for security operations center (SOC) team. 

Key takeaways:
- Define the fundamentals and sync with best practice;
- Simplify your messaging and facilitate with actors;
- Align your business environment with postmortems.

Designing a Responsive Playbook

Perimeterless hybrid environments reliant on cloud infrastructure are a boon for threats. Sophisticated threat actors and insider threats are taking advantage of security gaps presented by this expanded attack surface.
 
Attend this webinar to learn the trends, required data, and detection summaries for key threats. You’ll hear about threats observed in real-life scenarios and how to improve your security posture and stop attacks early in the ransomware kill chain.  

Stay in front of emerging and unknown threats by ensuring you know about best practices in cloud infrastructure, preemptive ransomware and securing IoT and OT.

Speakers:  
Augusto Barros, VP, Cyber Security Evangelist, Securonix
Sina Chehreghani, Manager Incident Response, Securonix Threat Labs
Kayzad Vanskuiwalla, Director Threat Hunting & Intelligence, Securonix Threat Labs

The State of CyberSecurity 2022

As network environments get more complex (e.g., work from home users, BYOD and IoT devices, workloads migrated to public clouds), relying solely upon SIEM and End Point Detection and Response (EDR) solutions is not enough for effective cybersecurity.

This session will explore challenges these solutions face and the advantages you gain with advanced Network Detection and Response (NDR):
 
• Gain packet level visibility across your entire network environment (including public cloud)

• Fill the gaps in visibility left by EDR solutions

• Easily integrate into and complement an existing cybersecurity stack, improving an organization’s overall cybersecurity posture

We will introduce NETSCOUT’s advanced NDR solution, Omnis Cyber Intelligence, and demonstrate how it can improve incident response.

Overcome the Challenges of EDR with Advanced NDR

This session provides practical advice to establish cybersecurity metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs). We begin with an explanation of the differences between them and why each are needed. Examples of how to design metrics, KPIs and KRIs are provided. Areas of focus include cybersecurity measurements for all organizations, for processes & functions and in alignment with a control framework. The end game is to measure if processes and controls are functioning as designed.

We also walk through tips for communicating new metrics and go-to-green updates for metrics in red or yellow status. The session includes 22 metrics and seven resources for many more. All of this saves time and can assist with enhancing your program.

About the speaker:
Gideon Rasmussen is a Cybersecurity Management Consultant with over 20 years of experience in corporate and military organizations. Gideon has designed and led programs including Information Security (CISO), PCI - Payment Card Security, Third Party Risk Management, Application Security and Information Risk Management. Has diverse cybersecurity industry experience within banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, DoD/USAF, state government, advertising and talent management. Gideon has authored over 30 information security articles. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force, a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy and a recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award. Gideon has also completed the Bataan Memorial Death March (4 occurrences). He is certified in many programs including CISSP, CRISC, CISA, CISM, CIPP, ITILv3, and NSA-IAM.

Cybersecurity Metrics, KPIs and KRIs

IT and security teams across industries are supporting increasingly distributed workforces and a growing number of device options. Meanwhile, identity-based attacks are the top threat to organizations today, with a Verizon report from 2021 finding that 45% of organizations have suffered a breach due to identity-related threats. Staying ahead of these risks is critical, but since traditional approaches to identity security are often fragmented, complex, and lack agility, this is no easy feat.

By adopting an identity-first approach to security, organizations can elevate their security posture and reduce friction as they adopt hybrid and fully remote working models.

In this 45 minute discussion, ESG Senior Analyst Jack Poller is joined by Ryan Terry, Senior Solutions Product Marketing Manager at Okta, to discuss the role of identity in the modern security stack and explore tips and best practices for teams looking to bolster security and drive productivity across a distributed workforce. 

Topics for discussion include: 
- How to think about adopting an identity-first approach to security
- Balancing security with usability: How an identity-first mindset can mitigate risk while empowering distributed workforces
- Understanding Zero Trust: Why organizations are adopting the approach and how to decide if it’s right for your organization
- And more...

Bolstering Security in the Era of Remote Work

Over the past two years, virtual work has exploded and become the new normal for organizations, schools, and government. But with this new normal has come new dangers for staying safe and secure. 

CyberVista's George Monsalvatge wants to ensure users stay safe when connecting to networks from a variety of locations. In this presentation, he'll cover:
- Checking network connections.
- Signs of compromise.
- How to stop breaches.

How to Stay Safe While Working Virtually

Traditional threat intel is broken. We’re trained to conduct threat intel analysis based on what the industry has given us: wordy threat intel reports, long lists of indicators of compromise with little context, and TTPs that are difficult to take action on. 

Cyber deception, however, gives contextualized rich intelligence on attacker activity. Advanced deception environments, tailored to your attack surface, offer the next generation of threat intelligence collection and analysis. Deception environments are exceptionally effective because they generate known “bad” data. No one should be messing with them. The data they collect is clear and unequivocal. See how they offer clear signals in all the noise.

Start Gathering Your Own Threat Intelligence

Access to independent, current, globally sourced cyber threat intelligence at no charge.
 
We anticipate that the current conflict will lead to a growing number of cyberthreats. Threat actors will be trying to exploit the ongoing crisis for their own ends. To confront this potential wave of cyberattacks, businesses worldwide need to have access to trusted and timely threat intelligence.
 
Kaspersky are industry leaders in Cyber Threat Intelligence. At Kaspersky, we are pleased to announce, we are offering you access to some of our very latest threat intelligence at no cost.
 
Join our webinar to understand more about the features, and see a demonstration.
 
In this webinar Lee Rendell, Senior Presales Manager at Kaspersky UK, will talk you through what Kaspersky Threat intelligence service provides and why we are providing you access to the portal, the intelligence, and at no charge. We will run you through a demo of the Threat Intelligence Portal, to help you understand how this solution can benefit you and your organisation.

Threat Intelligence in action

Email remains the #1 attack vector, yet many businesses remain dismally unprepared for a successful attack. In this webinar, Michael Posey, Channel Presales Engineer at Vade, will examine the latest techniques hackers are using to bypass email filters and the tools and solutions for detecting and responding with precision.

The Email Menace: Understanding and Responding to the #1 Threat to Your Business

While the threat landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, organizations typically overlook (or poorly perform) the most foundational aspect of building a strong defensive posture -- the human element. Whether it is misconfiguring a system, clicking on a malicious link, or failing to detect or respond to an anomalous event, most breaches are successful because of human error or inattention. 

Tune into this webinar to learn:
- The key areas where humans create weaknesses.
- Review some common tricks that allow attackers in.
- Changing the mindset of your organization to be more security aware.
- Where to begin along with several takeaways.

It's Not the Silicon, it's the Carbon -- Those Darn Humans

Security vulnerabilities discovered in applications are almost always rooted in security flaws in source code. Here, weaknesses may be logical errors, missing validation, insufficient logging, poor secrets management, missing user permissions checks, unsafe string concatenation, misconfigurations, and much more. 

In this session, you'll learn the importance of incorporating secure code review in the software development lifecycle. While automated scans are helpful and powerful tools, they're no replacement for code review by human experts.

Secure Code Review: Catching Vulnerabilities at the Source

Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is quoted as saying "change is the only constant in life." It is no surprise this also applies to the information security world we are a part of. 

The threat landscape is constantly evolving as are the industry and regulatory requirements organizations must adhere to. How then are we to maintain a security strategy that accounts for these ever-changing factors? 

In this live session, we will discuss the key components of a sound security strategy and how to identify and address the changing threats, requirements, and other factors impacting your strategy.

Building Your Security Strategy To Manage Change

What you’ll learn:
Outlining the various solutions in the cybersecurity market
Today’s top security challenges
The differences between Product (XDR) and Service (MDR)
How to select the right solution for your organization
An overview of Secureworks ManagedXDR
Answers to questions that our speakers received during the live webinar

EDR. XDR. MDR. If you’re looking at the cybersecurity market today, there are a lot of acronyms floating around – leading to a lot of confusion.

How do you filter through the alphabet soup and find the solution that solves your unique security challenges? Please join Secureworks® and Frost & Sullivan for a discussion that will clear the confusion in the market and help CISOs understand what to consider in discovering the right solution based on their organization’s needs!

EDR, XDR, MDR: Filtering Out the Alphabet Soup of Cybersecurity

Effective cyber defense requires time-consuming analysis and a level of data aggregation and correlation that is at best an art, and at worst cost prohibitive. Meanwhile, attackers remain agile and inventive, rapidly changing their methods with minimal costs (to them).  Automation brings with it the promise of leveling the playing field, giving more time back to defenders and keeping us equally agile. Unfortunately, it is far more common that automation in cybersecurity expands already monolithic tool sets, extends vendor lock-in, and increases our support costs.  

This talk will outline a pragmatic approach to automation in cyber defense that increases efficiency without breaking your budget. Attendees will learn how to identify candidate tasks and workflows ripe for automation, apply a repeatable approach to introducing automation, and avoid common pitfalls in building a more automated cyber defense.

A Pragmatic Approach to Automating Your Defenses

Are you confident that your Data Protection strategy is effective? With cloud apps, mobility, and state-sponsored threats on the rise, your data is now in danger more than ever. Securing distributed data has become a top challenge in today's organizations, and most security approaches fail to approach the problem holistically. Therefore it’s time to take a step back and re-evaluate your security model.

5 Critical Steps to Secure Cloud Apps and Data

With the post-pandemic work environment taking shape, CISOs must now come to terms with permanently remote and hybrid workforces, the decline of VPNs and perimeter-based security technologies and other inalterable changes. At this “point of no return,” security leaders require an updated roadmap to effectively manage new and improved cyber threats and a user base stretched out across locations doing work with third party and non-sanctioned applications. Attackers are growing sneakier and more sophisticated in penetrating the less defined barriers of the new workforce. CISOs should rethink old strategy and risk models in order to secure their companies in this destabilized post-pandemic world.

Tune into this panel discussion including top experts in the cybersecurity sphere and discover how CISOs and other security leaders can guide their companies into a safer future. Some of the key discussion points will include:

- Top threats predicted to strike in 2023 and how security leaders can prepare.
- How to phase out legacy security technologies that may no longer be effective in this post-pandemic work world.
- The biggest challenges brought forth by hybrid and remote workforces and how to address them. 
- Rethinking and re-organizing your organization’s risk model.

CISO Security Tips to Manage the “End” of COVID-19

How to defend against inevitable security breaches

Fallen victim to a data breach yet? If not, your organisation is one of the lucky ones - for now. Cyber attackers are using ever more sophisticated attempts to execute attacks on a daily basis. Realistically, it's unlikely that an organisation can swerve an attack without robust cyber security measures already in place to prevent, detect and mitigate cyber threats. 

Hear from Akamai's Director of Security Technology and Strategy, Richard Meeus and:
- Understand the common attacks in the cyber threat landscape - from DDoS, to phishing, MFA and microsegmentation.
- Discover cyber security models and strategies to protect your organisation should it fall victim to an attack.
- Learn how you can provide your users with risk-free access to applications and services.

Have You Been Breached Yet? Are You Sure?

In today’s rapidly changing world, it’s very easy to lurch from issue to issue without stopping to pause and think strategically about where the issues are coming from and how you can prevent the next one from being a career-defining incident. 

In this talk, Quentyn will take a light-hearted view of eight issues he sees frequently today; how they have developed, and how to avoid them keeping you up at night.

8 Things That Keep CISOs Up At Night (You Won't Believe Number 4!)

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” —Winston Churchill. 

If the age of Covid has taught us anything, it’s that we need to be nimble and embrace change. But what breach lessons can we learn to help us navigate the future? 

Join BCyber’s Co-Founder & CEO Karen Stephens as she unpacks key breach themes and the lessons we can learn to help us prepare for the future. This is the chance to learn from the experiences of others rather than having to learn from your own breach!

Staying Ahead of the Breach

As engineering teams move faster and faster, we’ve seen application security “shift left” - with testing done earlier and earlier in the development lifecycle.  But the way teams test hasn’t changed - we’re still in a land of false positives, vetting applications against known vulnerabilities, and bracing ourselves for emergency patching when the next zero day hits.

By thinking like a hacker when testing applications - you can automatically find exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them while your code is still in development -- giving you stronger security while also increasing velocity

In this talk, we’ll discuss: 
The benefits (and limitations) of current approaches to application security
Balancing security and development velocity - how to build win/win scenarios
Setting realistic targets for application security programs based on known risks
Adopting a hacking mindset to help developers increase velocity and security both 
Using techniques like fuzzing and symbolic execution to ‘hack’ your applications in your own development pipeline

Think like a Hacker: How to Get ahead of Zero Days.

Recent cybersecurity incidents continue to show that public sector entities from local school districts to federal agencies are not immune to cyber threats. These range from ransomware attacks to data breaches involving sensitive student and staff data. 

Tune into this webinar that will examine trends, highlight examples, and share best practices for steps to take before, during, and after a cyber incident with a focus on public agencies and officials.

Public Sector Entities: Vulnerable and Less Prepared Cyber Targets

The evidence is in the news: threat actors are constantly on the hunt for weakly secured applications to exploit. Does your business have a target on its back? What can you do now to avoid becoming tomorrow’s data breach headline?

This webinar examines how cybercriminals are hacking applications and the need for effective application security. Inside, learn:

• How threat actors are exploiting unsecured software
• How we make exploitation too easy for the adversaries
• How a Protection Blueprint can change the tide
• And more

How threat actors hack your applications

Cyber attacks are not random acts that affect only a few. They are calculated ambushes that will impact you at some point -- whether you're prepared or not. Join this session as Jim Goldman discusses the state of cybersecurity, the implications of an attack, and what you can do to best mitigate your risk to protect yourself and your business. 

About the speaker:
Jim Goldman is the co-founder and CEO of Trava, a company created to protect small and medium-sized businesses from the potential damage of cyber threats through risk assessment, security strategy, and cyber insurance. He is a nationally published author and frequently requested speaker and subject matter expert on technical topics and security topics. Prior to founding Trava, he was a faculty scholar at Purdue University where he served as a professor and associate department head. He started a research lab serving the FBI and trust organizations for cloud computing companies that included Salesforce. And while at Salesforce he was responsible for enterprise-wide security governance, risk management, and compliance and built the company's first Security GRC organization.

It's Not Cyber Crime, It's Cyber Warfare

Geopolitical instability and cybersecurity are unavoidably intertwined. Organizations of all types can be at higher risk even if they’re not connected to a conflict. Cyberattacks are a weapon sometimes wielded even against nation-states not directly involved in a conflict. Going into 2023 Russia’s war in Ukraine will bring it with cyberthreats. Other nations too, including North Korea, Russia, China and Iran, are likely to raise organizational leaders’ concerns about security.

This panel will look at the current and near-future prospects for geopolitical conflict, including
• The role of cybercriminals in conflicts between nations, such as the Conti and Stormous ransomware groups’ support for Russia in the current Ukrainian conflict; 
• How nation-states weaponize cyber-attack skills to increase their power in the world;
• Where CISOs, CEOs, and other organizational leaders should focus security investments to respond to threats issuing from global conflict.
• What tools exist for companies to keep themselves from becoming “casualities” in an international conflict.

Moderated by: Rob Wright, News Director at TechTarget 

Panelists:
Kevin Kirkwood, Deputy CISO | LogRhythm Inc.
Ron Meyran, Senior Director | Radware
Deveeshree Nayak, Assistant Teaching Professor | University of Washington School of Engineering and Technology

Geopolitical Instability and Its Impact on Cybersecurity

Could your organisation truly survive a data breach and emerge unscathed? 

If the answer is no, or maybe, your cyber security strategy needs a rethink. The importance of preventing and protecting your organisation against a cyber attack is now a fundamental ‘must’, not simply an option. If your organisation was attacked, how would the attacker be detected and moreover, what response plan is currently in place and how could impacts be minimised?

In this fireside discussion, ESG Analyst John Grady is joined by Richard Meeus, Akamai’s EMEA Director of Security Technology and Strategy to explore how to bullet-proof your data for 2023. 

Join them to discuss: 
-  Why active prevention is now a security 'must-have' instead of a 'nice-to-have'
-  The risk organisations will face in 2023
-  How to minimise the impact of a breach
-  The state of ransomware in 2023 
-  And much more!

Get Ahead of the Game: Preparing for 2023’s Inevitable Cyber Security Breach

What if you could predict, and thus prevent, most security incidents in your organization? While we know 82% of attacks originate from human fallibility, effective risk management requires pinpointing the riskiest users. Fortunately, recent research has revealed the 7% of the workforce responsible for the majority of incidents. 

This presentation offers security professionals a new way to think about measuring user risk. Attendees will come away with:
• An understanding of how user risk can be quantified with data from security tools;
• Examples from leading security teams who’ve improved their organization’s cyber defense;
• An approach to the different stages of user-risk management, from feedback to tailored controls;
• Methods to mitigate workforce risk by applying risk-appropriate interventions; 
• Ways to use feedback to build trust and transparency and risk-based controls to enhance security protection;
• and more!

Master Security Kryptonite: How To Proactively Pinpoint and Mitigate User Risk

In today’s cybersecurity landscape, you can never let your guard down. Imagine you come into work to find your servers have been infected with ransomware.  Where do you go from here?   

By leveraging machine learning and true artificial intelligence, you can gain peace of mind knowing you have around-the-clock coverage to prevent cyberthreats and stop bad actors in their tracks. 

Join Jonathan Jackson – Director Sales Engineering, from the BlackBerry Cybersecurity team in APAC to learn: 

- The basic steps you can adopt now to prevent being exposed by threat actors. 
- How you can protect your organisation from threats lurking in the shadows 24x7x365. 
- It’s time to outsmart and outlast modern cyber threats.

Threat Actors Never Sleep ....Neither Can Your Security

In twelve short months, Zero Trust has gone from buzzword to the default security paradigm. The percentage of Asia Pacific companies with a defined Zero Trust initiative underway has increased dramatically, up almost 20% in 12 months. 83% of businesses now say Identity is important to their Zero Trust security strategy, and we’re seeing an interesting shift in the prioritisation of security over customer experience in the APAC region. 

According to Okta’s latest State of Zero Trust report, almost all APAC companies surveyed will have a Zero Trust strategy in plan or in play by the end of 2022. Many of these organisations have moved beyond the preliminary phases of implementation such as MFA, SSO and connected used directories. 

Join us as we invite guest security experts [name] from AWS and [name] from Crowdstrike to unpack the findings from this year’s report, and reveal what this means for the future Zero Trust adoption in APAC. 

What’s driving the rapid adoption of Zero Trust?
Why is the balance tipping in favour of Security over CX? 
Why should you prioritise Identity as the foundation of your Zero Trust strategy?   
How to accelerate your Zero Trust journey past the traditional and emerging phases?

Zero Trust - Revelations and evolutions of today’s default security paradigm

APIs are ripe and juicy targets for cybercriminals, and loaded with attack traffic that is invisible unless you have effective API security. APIs now consume as much as 60% of all internet bandwidth, but many of them have weak security architecture, which opens the door to data breaches, ransomware, malware, DDoS attacks, and other cyber threats.

Enterprises commonly don’t know how many APIs they have or which ones are dormant. Their APIs are like black boxes, leaving enterprises with a problem: they can’t protect what they can’t see.

Join this webinar to learn how cybercriminals are exploiting APIs, why the lack of visibility into API traffic is a serious problem for enterprises, and what you and your team should do now to mitigate risk. Presented by industry researcher and analyst Richard Stiennon, and API security expert Rob Dickenson, founder of Resurface Labs.

The Latest Trends in API Security: Learn How to Stay Ahead of Attackers

Quantum risk is the threat of capable quantum computers upending cryptographic methods, such as RSA or elliptical curve algorithms, widely used today for securing information flows through communication networks. A sufficiently capable quantum adversary would be able to decrypt sensitive data in short order disrupting the trust in the digital systems that increasingly undergird our society.

Join us to learn: 
What is quantum risk and when will it impact my organization?
How does encrypted data provide a false sense of security?
How to protect against a “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) attack 
How threat actors can use quantum computer to decrypt your data
 
Buckle up as we start your journey into quantum risk and understanding the coming storm.

Quantum Risk Is Here Now. Are You Ready?

2023 is shaping up to be another challenging year for CISOs. A possible recession, CISO liability for breaches, cyber Insurance and ransomware trends are just a slice of issues CISOs will have to contend with in the near future. 

This presentation will provide a look ahead into what is on the horizon and how we can best prepare our cyber defenses to protect our people, customers, and assets.   

About the speaker:
Mr. Zalewski, through his company S3 Consulting, provides the following security advisory services:

• Executive advisor for early-stage security companies
• CISO advisor to venture capital firms internationally
• CISO for companies requiring a temporary or part-time CISO
• International cybersecurity training and facilitation

He is the former CISO at Levi Strauss & Co and has held senior security positions at Pacific Gas & Electric and Kaiser Permanente.  Other positions Steve has held include senior engineering mgmt. roles in storage networks, data protection and enterprise operating systems.

His credentials include multiple patents in data protection and multi-processor operating system design and CISSP, CISM and CRISC security certifications.

Steve also co-hosts the CISOSeries Defense-in-Depth Podcasts and is a frequent speaker and panel moderator for webinars and industry events.

Top CISO Concerns for 2023 and How to Prepare For Them

Backed by decades of security experience, Towerwall learned that there is no single piece of technology or system that will keep your organization secure. 

That’s why Towerwall security experts developed a unique security approach that is not only consistent, repeatable and measurable, but also flexible enough to adapt to the changing threat landscape.

In this discussion, Towerwall Founder & CEO, Michelle Drolet outlines how your organization can deploy the 7 Dimensions and stay secure.

About the speaker:
Michelle Drolet, founded and CEO of TowerWall, is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. The Software Report recently named Drolet one of the Top 25 Women in Cybersecurity in 2021; she's also been named one of the Top CEOs to Watch in 2020 by CIO Views and The 10 Most Powerful Women in the Channel by VARBusiness Magazine. She sits on the Framingham Foundation Board Events Committee and the MassBay Cyber Security Advisory Board and is past chair of the Mass Bay Foundation Board, MetroWest Chamber of Commerce, and Framingham ESL. She is the founder of the Information Security Summit at Mass Bay Community College, New England’s premier event that gathers top security and risk management professionals for open dialogue on the latest threats, developments and trends occurring in information security.

7 Dimensions of Cybersecurity

Technology plays an important role in our day-to-day life. Whether it is working from home, managing our work schedules, or tracking personal routines and daily activities, we are majorly dependent on technology. With this reliance comes the biggest challenge of securing our information and preventing the risk of opening the doors to intrepid hackers. 

Tune into this presentation to hear TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav discuss some of the cyber security and risk mitigating techniques to achieve a risk-free cyber zone.

Entering a Risk-Free Cyber Zone

Ransomware continues to be a top security concern for cybersecurity teams, with no signs of abating in 2023. Instead, businesses must learn to live with the reality of expecting to be attacked and taking the right measures to react quickly when it happens. In this keynote presentation, ESG will present its latest findings on the prevalence of ransomware and provide best practices to help organizations make strides toward readiness, develop a plan for response, and recover quickly.

Ransomware Preparedness: Cyber Resiliency for 2023

The 2023 Threatscape

In today’s world, when it comes to ransomware attacks, it’s not a matter of if but when your company will be affected.

To avoid the painful outcomes ransomware ensures including, the prolonged shutdown of operations, lowered employee productivity, increased support cost, and reputational damages, it’s essential that organizations focus on creating a playbook for remediation and recovery that combine technology and process to get your operations back to normal quickly.

Speakers:
Alan Sanderson, VP of North American Sales at Absolute
Jeff Laskowski, VP of Global Professional Services at Absolute
Brian McGowan, VP of Global Security & Privacy at SharkNinja

The Reality of Ransomware Attacks

Endpoint Management

Endpoint Security

Risk Mitigation

Cyber Threats

Ransomware

Cyber Security

Network Security

Threat Analysis

Incident Management

Zero Trust

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IT Security

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IT Governance, Risk and Compliance

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The Reality of Ransomware Attacks

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