ISSA Thought Leadership Series: Threat Reports Undone

- October is Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM). But one month is only the beginning, and lasting change takes consistent programs and nudges to cultivate a strong security awareness 365-days of the year.
- Join ISSA and Proofpoint as they discuss how to leverage CSAM to kick-start continuous programs to transform users from targets to defenders. In this session, our experts will cover:
- How to leverage monthly nudges and campaigns
- Extensive opportunities available by seasonal challenges and ‘domain days’
- How pre-packaged campaigns utilizing micro-learnings can make this a reality

Juliet “Jules” Okafor, will describe her professional journey and offer perspectives for workplace leadership and career innovation, while recounting adventures along the way, as she navigated life beyond graduate school. Jules will share details regarding her post-graduate journeys and current positions, and where she the current focus of our fields of security and privacy. She will talk about career innovation for you and your staff, in challenging economic conditions, work-life balance, diversity in the workplace, and strategies for professional growth.

In this podcast, Dr. Cole will provide a playbook for approaching organizational security from this perspective. You’ll learn how a proper foundation for security is key, followed by proactive threat hunting and active defense. You’ll also get a prioritized checklist of actions that you can take right away to reduce the risk of an attack and mitigate one in progress..

The constant barrage of security threats is not going to let up, and if you wait to respond, it will already be too late.

Organizations historically have relied on their Cybersecurity, IT and their Networking teams to purchase
technologies to provide defense-in-depth protection for their organizations. While this is necessary, most
organizations never think that their biggest risk is actually their untrained employees.
With the onslaught of phishing, malware, ransomware attacks and Business Email Compromise or CEO
Fraud, we are at a critical point that each and every organization needs to have a successful training
program in place to properly educate their employees on how to identify social engineering attempts, or
they are almost guaranteed to fall short of its security objectives and they will become a victim of
cybercrime, and in many cases this can be a very expensive lesson to be learned.
Ninety percent of security breaches are caused by Human Error. A successful security awareness training
program will not only educate your employees. A successful program will also empower them to make
changes to their behavior and embrace a security minded culture, securing themselves and in turn,
securing your organization.
But how can organizations take the next step beyond training when changing human behavior is such a
complex process. Traditional security awareness programs are not enough—you need to develop
Security-Minded Employees and make it part of the corporate culture.
In this webinar, Larry Cates, President and CEO, and Suzanne Gorman, Vice President, Information Security
and Risk Management Evangelist with Global Learning Systems will discuss:
● Setting objectives to make your program successful
● Biggest risks to any organization
● Elements of a Successful Security Awareness Program
● Quantifying Your Success

Usually, privacy and information security professionals have a shared mission to protect information. But what happens when their approaches and objectives conflict with each other or make it impossible for them to coexist within a specific use case? From the physical world to the technology realm, there has long been give-and-take necessary to find the right balance between privacy and security in protecting and defending. As privacy (or its more appropriate term, data protection) is about respecting the person, and their decisions around data use and depends heavily on security technologies to be effective, the importance of collaborating continues to increase but remains challenging. We will cover the history of these two worlds' relationship across the physical and technical domains. By reviewing cases, including the recent news that Apple will soon check for CSAM data on users' devices, we will discern how to discuss, understand and find the balance between security and privacy for different use cases, risk postures and constituencies.

Regardless of the industry, most organizations report to unique regulatory bodies with their own set of requirements– and meeting those requirements only becomes more complicated when data and applications are stored in the cloud. And on top of that, many companies find themselves lacking direction around Data Loss Prevention (DLP), legacy data archiving, data classification, document tagging, third party access, and other issues that can bring your organization out of good standing with those regulatory bodies.

How can your company quickly adapt your cloud controls, standards, and processes to maintain compliance under changing conditions?

In this webinar, our group of experts will provide guidance on tools and resources for your organization to develop a roadmap to better tackle your compliance needs in the Azure cloud.

The shift to cloud applications and remote work imposes fundamentally different requirements on network security. The Internet is your new corporate network and security needs to evolve from appliances and choke points to a ubiquitous cloud-based service. Join this webinar to learn how you can transform your security architecture and take advantage of cloud-native network security-as-a-service from Cloudflare.

In this webinar you will learn about:
- hybrid network architectures for the modern enterprise
- the shifts in network security requirements driven by the cloud and remote work
- how network security-as-a-service can help you maintain a consistent security posture in the hybrid work era

Dr. Wang will share her own career success story, how she chose this profession, how she evolved to her successful role today. She will give us a view of venture capital in security today, and what venture capital funds look at when considering funding from emerging technologies and trends, and how security fits into that pipeline. Chenxi will give perspective on how we might aspire to this career path—or as an investor, within the Venture Capital field. This will include skillsets, experience, the persona that works best, how negotiations and power of influence come into play, the benefits of such a field, and where and why we may want to engage.

Information security continues to evolve as the workplace goes hybrid

67% of security personnel are concerned that remote employees’ use of personal devices to access their work systems have hurt their organizations’ security posture. As hybrid work conditions become the norm, companies must find a way to keep their systems safe from cyber-attacks while keeping employees connected. This webinar provides solutions to the most common challenges facing security teams in the hybrid work environment.

• Learn about possible security issues stemming from remote work
• Ways to keep networks secure with little business interruptions
• Learn how password security can help protect networks

DDoS attacks have dominated the charts in terms of frequency, sophistication, and geo-distribution over the last year. Ransom DDoS attacks are also surging, crippling organizations' network infrastructure and taking them offline while demanding ransom in bitcoin. Unlike ransomware attacks, these ransom DDoS attacks do not even require the hacker to access an organization’s internal systems before they can be carried out.

There are no signs of DDoS attacks going away anytime soon. How do organizations ensure that their Internet assets are protected against threats of any size or kind?

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

* Key Q2 2021 DDoS attack trends
* Ransom DDoS threats — and what you can do if you are affected
* Steps organizations can take to make the impact of DDoS attacks a thing of the past

How can technology help with global privacy regulation compliance, data analytics, and help us manage shared APIs, multiple companies, divisions, and departments with different data utilization strategies. How can differential privacy allow us to engage in meaningful research or demographic studies with detailed and privacy-protected datasets? Where are we now in the art of data management, software architecture, and where will we be in five years or ten years? How does self-sovereign identity play into this? Which historical experiences are analogous to our privacy and data protection work now and why is today’s IoT, video surveillance, facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and machine learning world different?

In this podcast, Dr. Cole will provide a playbook for approaching organizational security from this perspective. You’ll learn how a proper foundation for security is key, followed by proactive threat hunting and active defense. You’ll also get a prioritized checklist of actions that you can take right away to reduce the risk of an attack and mitigate one in progress..

The constant barrage of security threats is not going to let up, and if you wait to respond, it will already be too late.