Name: Ransomware Reality Check: Education and Extortion
Start: 2024-04-02T17:15:00Z
End: 2024-04-02T17:15:15.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Adlumin is the security operations command center that simplifies complexity and keeps organizations of all sizes secure. Its innovative technology and seamless integrations create a feature-rich platform with everything sophisticated security teams need, while empowering service providers and organizations of any size with collaboration and transparency for a coordinated, mature defense. With a vendor-agnostic approach and preexisting integrations, Adlumin obtains security telemetry from across an organization to provide greater insights into security alerts and streamline workflows. 

This webinar will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to revolutionize data security. Industry experts Mark Sangster, VP, Chief of Strategy, and Ben McPherson, Head of Solutions Engineering, will discuss how AI is addressing emerging threats in the cybersecurity landscape and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) space. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn: 

- How AI can analyze vast amounts of data to identify and predict security threats. 
- Different ways AI can be used to detect unusual user activity that might indicate a security breach. 
-Methods for how AI can be used to scan networks and systems for vulnerabilities. 

As a thank you for joining our webinar, you’ll receive “The Ultimate Guide to Using Cybersecurity AI,” which includes key takeaways and recommendations for your security strategy. Additionally, one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Outsmarting the Adversaries: How AI is Transforming Threat Detection & Response

Explore the latest ransomware cyber-threat trends in this new research from the Adlumin Threat Research Team

The Adlumin Threat Research Team has been dedicated to tracking and analyzing the most important cybersecurity trends, including ransomware. Keeping up to date with these threats can make the difference between a minor event and an operational shutdown.

Join Kevin O’Connor, Director of Threat Research, and our host, Mark Sangster, VP, Chief of Strategy at Adlumin as the pair reviews significant takeaways, trends, and vulnerabilities in the new Threat Insights 2024 Volume I report.

In this webinar, you’ll receive:
• Exclusive Insights from Adlumin’s Threat Insights 2024 Volume I report
• Detailed Analysis of Emerging threat trends in cybersecurity, including the latest in ransomware attacks
• Strategies to implement Proactive Vulnerability Management in your cybersecurity strategy

As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you our new Threat Insights 2024 Volume I report. Additionally, one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Highlights from the New Threat Insights 2024 Volume I Report

Cybersecurity professionals preach the power of multi-factor authentication (MFA), but what happens when a cybercriminal goes around it?
 
Join Adlumin’s Mark Sangster and Kevin O’Connor as they demonstrate MFA bypass techniques using EvilGinx 3. In this webinar, you’ll also see how attackers can leverage hijacked session cookies and EvilGinx phishlets to compromise user accounts and access. The pair will also dive into how to combat these attacks, along with the benefits of a fully visible network for cybersecurity.
 
As a thank you for joining our webinar, you’ll receive “The Executive’s Guide to Cybersecurity,” that includes key takeaways and recommendations for your cybersecurity strategy. Additionally, one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Watch a Live EvilGinx Demonstration to See How Cybercriminals Bypass MFA

Community banks are the lifeblood of local economies, but they often face unique challenges, especially when it comes to juggling extensive compliance regulations with limited resources. Spend 15 minutes with Adlumin's Vice President, Chief of Strategy, Mark Sangster, and Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer, ICBA Innovation, Charles Potts, to gain the knowledge and tools to protect your bank and your community!

The Balancing Act: Security vs. Budget in Community Banking

Don’t let a “Black Hole of Visibility” Form in Your Network

As organizations grow in size and complexity, their internal networks often become a “black hole” in terms of visibility. To keep these networks secure, this visibility needs to be managed, but time and budget seldom allow IT and cybersecurity professionals to gain actionable insights. Join Adlumin’s Vice President, Chief of Strategy, Mark Sangster as he demystifies network visibility and provides valuable takeaways you can implement today to mature your cybersecurity posture. 

During the webinar, you will learn:

- Why going beyond Endpoint Security and basic integrations is critical for network integrity
- How to empower your team with automation and AI  to defend against ransomware and other cyberattacks
- How to simplify cyber-threat visibility to make it accessible for SMBs

As a thank you for joining our webinar, you’ll receive our “Three Critical Elements for the Perfect Security Operations Mix” White Paper, with key takeaways and recommendations for your cybersecurity strategy. Additionally, one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

How to use Network Visibility in Your Cybersecurity Strategy

In the latest Industry Tip Tuesday session, Adlumin’s Mark Sangster, Vice President, Chief of Strategy, and Kevin O’Connor, Director of Threat Research, review Adlumin’s latest Threat Insights report just for the legal industry and highlight what you need to know. Spend 15 minutes learning effective strategies that provide you with the knowledge and tools to protect your legal organization.

Industry Tip Tuesday: Threat Hunting and Legal Firms

Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t new, but learning how we can harness it is constantly evolving. Explore the cybersecurity transformation with our upcoming webinar, where we uncover the adoption of AI in cybersecurity products. Hear how security providers embrace AI to fortify their defenses and elevate analyst capabilities.

During this session, you will learn:
• How the surge in machine learning usage is reshaping cybersecurity
• Ways to incorporate AI across detection, investigation, and incident response strategies
• Why the incorporation of a human element is still required when applying AI

As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you Gartner® “Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for AI in Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response.

Additionally – one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card for attending.*

*The attendee will be notified by email after the session.

Gartner, Emerging Tech: Top Use Cases for AI in Threat Detection, Investigation and Response, Travis Lee, Matt Milone, Elizabeth Kim, John Collins, 27 October 2023.
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Revolutionizing Cybersecurity: The AI Advantage

How expansive is the 2023 security naughty list? Join cybersecurity expert and vice president Mark Sangster and director of threat research Kevin O’Connor as they countdown the top cybersecurity events of 2023, including the PowerDrop vulnerability discovered by Adlumin’s threat research team, and Playcrypt Ransomware Gang.

What you will learn?
- Lessons learned about PlayCrypt Ransomware Gang (definitely on the naughty list)
- How Adlumin discovered and remediated PowerDrop 
- How to give a boost to your EDR and NGAV

As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you the Winter Threat Report. Additionally – one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Naughty List Review: Counting Down the Top 10 Cybersecurity Incidents of 2023

Managing a cybersecurity program in the mid-market is as challenging as trying to cook Thanksgiving dinner all by yourself. Carving the turkey while mashing the potatoes and roasting the brussels sprouts is impossible to do at the same time. Imagine if you had an extra set of hands or two to consolidate and automate tasks.

Join Mark Sangster, VP, Chief of Strategy at Adlumin, and John Bruggeman, Consulting CISO, as they break down the perfect recipe for advanced technologies in support of detection and response. The pair will cover:

• The benefits of a Managed Detection and Response solution 
• Adding threat intelligence to your security strategy 
• Ransomware threats and how to combat them 
• Keeping incident response in your back pocket 

As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you Three Critical Elements for the Perfect Security Operations Mix White Paper! Additionally – one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Your Recipe for the Perfect MDR Cybersecurity Strategy

In an era of escalating cyber threats making headlines, it's paramount for educational institutions to fortify their defenses. By reducing vulnerabilities and improving their ability to detect suspicious activities, these institutions can mitigate the risk of devastating cyberattacks. 

Join us for an enlightening discussion featuring cybersecurity expert Mark Sangster, Adlumin's Chief of Strategy, and Coree Kelly, Regional Information Security Officer of High Desert Education School District. Together, they will take you beyond the news stories and deep into the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats. 

This discussion will cover: 

- Emerging trends in cyberattacks. 
- A clear and actionable 5-step process for assessing risks and safeguarding investments against disruptive cyberattacks. 
-The five critical questions to consider when evaluating an investment manager or fund. 
 
Join us as we equip educational institutions with the knowledge and tools needed to protect their future against cyber threats.

Protecting Education: Addressing the Escalating Cyber Challenges

October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. While there are many resources to help your organization and its employees stay secure, are they enough? Join cybersecurity expert and Vice President Mark Sangster and Director of Threat Research Kevin O’Connor as they take you through the top five strategies to grow your organization’s security program based on original research from our latest threat report.  

During the session, you’ll learn how to grow your cybersecurity program by learning how to:
• Take your proactive defense to the next level with MFA.
• Implement SOAR to halt attacker activity 
• Prioritize patching to limit vulnerabilities 
• Grow and scale your security awareness training 
• Identify internal threats

As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you our latest threat report, which upon download, will enter you into our Cybersecurity Awareness Month contest. Additionally – one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card. 

Finally, we would like to thank our partner, Ardham Technologies, for sponsoring our webinar.

Five Strategies to Mature Security Posture

As we enter a seasonal inflection of back to school, criminals will use this time of change to exploit your personal and organizational accounts. Join experts as they prepare you for the season and map out a training plan to empower your people and ensure criminals get an "F" this year. 
 
You’ll walk away from the session understanding how to: 
- Use risk management data and accurate phishing lures to build comprehensive awareness training
- Maximize your resources and programs to increase return on investment
- Conduct testing that improves resilience
- Meet regulatory requirements and demonstrate program success to your leadership

As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you Mark Sangster's white paper, The Importance of Proactive Security. Additionally – one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Four Seasons In One Day: Protect Your Org during Back to School

The boom of cyberattacks and echoes of responding to regulatory and state legislature outpace the resources, from both a budgetary and personnel standpoint, available to small to medium organizations. So, how can they keep up the pace against today’s rising tide of threats? 

Join cyber experts Mark Sangster, VP at Adlumin, and Dave Grubber, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), as they outline a rapid roadmap to successful cybersecurity using consolidation to drive efficiency and manage cost. You’ll walk away from the session having learned the following:
- What are network protection must-haves?
- How to navigate compliance
- Best practices for streamlining your security operations using AI/ML
- How to thoughtfully approach your cybersecurity budget and make the most of every dollar.


As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you our new overview guide, The Executive’s Guide to Cybersecurity. Additionally – one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

The ABCs of Cyber: Assets, Budget, and Consolidation

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, organizations face the constant challenge of detecting and mitigating sophisticated attacks in a timely manner. Implementing automation and machine learning into a threat hunting strategy is key, but what does that look like in practice?

Join Kevin O'Connor, Adlumin’s Director of Threat Research, as he demonstrates how his team discovered and remediated PowerDrop, an insidious PowerShell script for command and control attacks targeting the U.S. aerospace defense industry.

During Kevin’s live demo, you will learn:

- How Adlumin's Threat Research Team used Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to detect and remediate PowerDrop
- Daily threat hunting methodologies employed by O'Connor and his team
- Exploring the advantages of AI and ML in the field of threat hunting
 
As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you our new overview guide, The Executive’s Overview to Proactive Cybersecurity: Harnessing the Power of Security Operations. Additionally – one lucky participant will receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

Decoding PowerDrop Vulnerability: AI and ML in Adlumin's Threat Hunting

A cybersecurity journey is not a sprint – it’s a marathon filled with obstacles set up by cybercriminals angling to extort your organization. Just like preparing for a marathon, there are small changes participants make when training that you, a cybersecurity professional, can draw on to strengthen your security and impress business leaders. 
 
Join Mark Sangster for a cybersecurity boot camp where he’ll review the top 5 security tactics that you can implement today. From there, he’ll explore utilizing a Security Operations Center (SOC) to find and remediate threats in just 90 minutes.

5 Cybersecurity Best Practices to Impress Business Leaders

A Fireside Chat with Adlumin and Sky Lakes Medical

Join us for an engaging webinar, "Cybersecurity Strategies for Healthcare Organizations.” In this exclusive session, we will provide an overview of Sky Lakes Medical's unique security challenges, focusing on three key areas: Security Challenges, Operational Challenges, and Customer Experience. Together, we will examine the evolving threat landscape and discuss effective strategies to safeguard healthcare organizations from cyber threats.  

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the experts and gain actionable knowledge that can enhance your organization's cybersecurity posture.

Cybersecurity Strategies for Healthcare Organizations: A Fireside Chat

As a cybersecurity professional, you understand the benefits of a Security Operations Center (SOC), but translating the need to your business leaders can be daunting, especially when it comes to AI. ChatGPT, hyped-up marketing and general confusion about AI and machine learning compound the problem. Join Adlumin expert Mark Sangser, VP, Chief of Strategy, as he explores these topics and masters the translation from the ones and zeroes of security to the dollars and cents with which non-technical business leaders are fluent:

- How proactive security programs reduce risk and improve business outcomes in the face of cyber threats
- Why full visibility across your organization is critical to stopping threats in their early stages
- How AI and machine learning accelerate response times and empower security teams to contain threats

Lastly, Mark will evaluate various security solutions and provide a structured means of explaining capability and benefits to your business leaders.

Selling the Benefits of a SOC: Explaining AI to Business Leaders

Adlumin for Educational Institutions

As ransomware continues to plague educational institutions, both by sophisticated threat actors like ransomware gangs and state-sponsored adversaries, the imperative to bolster cybersecurity measures becomes increasingly apparent. Educational leaders are acknowledging the urgency of investing in robust defense mechanisms. Yet, the process is hindered by the complexity of the cybersecurity landscape, replete with acronyms and exaggerated claims, making it daunting to discern the most suitable technologies and solutions.

Join cybersecurity expert Mark Sangster, Vice President, Chief of Strategy, for our Industry Tip Tuesday series, where he takes a 15-minute deep dive into security challenges facing the education industry.

Ransomware Reality Check: Education and Extortion

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