Name: Real-World Applications for Better Security: Adlumin’s Threat Research Insights
Start: 2024-07-11T18:00:00Z
End: 2024-07-11T18:00:41.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 3.3

At N‑able, our mission is to protect businesses against evolving cyberthreats with an end-to-end cyber resilience platform to manage, secure, and recover. Our scalable technology infrastructure includes AI-powered capabilities, market-leading third-party integrations, and the flexibility to employ technologies of choice—to transform workflows and deliver critical security outcomes. Our partner-first approach combines our products with experts, training, and peer-led events that empower our customers to be secure, resilient, and successful. n-able.com 

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. 

N‑able’s VP, Product Management, Jim Waggoner and Head of Threat Research, Kevin O'Connor demystify network visibility and provide valuable takeaways you can implement today to mature your cybersecurity posture: 
- 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

How to Use Network Visibility in Your Cyber Security Strategy

In this on-demand session, Jim Waggoner and Lewis Pope break down the latest cyber incidents making headlines and explain what they mean for businesses of all sizes. From ransomware hitting critical services to supply chain compromises in widely used software ecosystems, the discussion highlights both persistent and opportunistic attackers, their evolving tactics, and the growing “as-a-service” criminal marketplace. 

Whether you’re an MSP protecting clients or an IT leader responsible for organizational resilience, this session arms you with actionable steps to strengthen defenses and respond to today’s fast-moving threats.

Inside the Headlines: How Threat Actors Are Exploiting Businesses Like Yours

N-able Head Nerd Lewis Pope explains how Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT teams can use cybersecurity tabletop exercises to improve incident response readiness. Learn how to design, facilitate, and get business value from these exercises -plus access free CISA and N-able resources to help you get started.

Watch now to strengthen your team’s response before the next cyber incident hits.

From Plan to Practice: Strengthen Incident Response with Tabletop Exercises

From credential abuse and ransomware to cyber extortion and unpatched vulnerabilities, small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are 3x more likely to be targeted than large enterprises due to resource disparities.

Join us for our 2025 Threat Report webinar and get a data-driven reality check on the evolving threat landscape targeting SMBs, exposing the gaps, trends, and real-world consequences organizations can no longer afford to ignore.

Combining threat intelligence from across the N-able and Adlumin ecosystems, Kevin O’Conner, Director of Threat Research, and Jim Waggoner, VP of Product Management, will share significant takeaways, trends, and vulnerabilities from the new 2025 Threat Report including:

· Top SMB threats in 2025

· Current trends in the SMB threat landscape

· Real-world SMB incidents and takeaways

· Threats that are real vs. just buzz

Whether you're a security practitioner, IT leader, or executive decision-maker, this webinar will deliver the context and clarity you need to assess your risk, strengthen your defenses, and build lasting cyber resilience.

2025 Threat Report Insights

Backups have been the last line of defense against cyberthreats—but today, they’re increasingly becoming the first target. We’ll cover how the cyberthreat landscape is evolving, three primary attack vectors used by modern threat actors, and ways to proactively defend.

Featured speakers:
- Keith Young, Principle Solutions Architect
- Stefan Voss, VP of Product Management

Data Resilience: Best Practices, from Attack Vectors to Remediation

AI-powered MDR makes security teams nimbler and more effective. In this session we’ll unpack ways AI helps highlight what really matters, how modern MDR has become an extension of your team, getting practical support from generative AI, and hear real stories from the field.

Featured speakers:
Robert Johnston
VP, GM Adlumin

Security Operations and Resilience for the Modern Threat Landscape

IT and SecOps are converging in a critical shift for modern endpoint protection. We’ll explore key drivers of this shift, why proactive and continuous endpoint hardening is vital, as well as practical strategies.

Featured Speakers:
- Lewis Pope, Head Nerd, Sec Ops
- Jason Murphy, Head Nerd, IT Ops

Beyond Defense: Accomplishing Endpoint Resilience

Once overlooked by threat actors, small and mid-market businesses today face the same sophisticated attacks as large enterprises. N‑able Chief Technology and Product Officer Mike Adler will explore what it takes to build true end-to-end resilience, outlining a holistic approach spanning the full attack lifecycle: minimizing the attack surface before an incident, reducing operational impact during an attack, and ensuring business continuity after.

Featured Speaker:
- Mike Adler, EVP, Chief Technology and Product Officer, N‑able

The N‑able Vision for End-to-End Cyber Resilience

Cyber resilience is crucial in today’s dynamic threat landscape. Our panel of leading cyber security voices will explore how organizations can rise to the challenge of these rapidly evolving risks. Topics will include the latest threat intelligence, the necessity of end-to-end cyber resilience, and lessons from research findings and real-world insights.

Featured Speakers:
- Francis Odum, Cybersecurity Instructor and Founder of Software Analyst Cybersecurity Research
- Kevin O’Connor, Director of Threat Research, N‑able
- Vinod Paul, President, Managed Services, Align

Security Roundtable: Discussing 5 Key Findings from Our 2025 Threat Report

Discover how the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape is reshaping the way organizations think about security. In this session, Sarah Armstrong-Smith will explore why building end-to-end cyber resilience has become mission critical—and how businesses can prepare for the challenges ahead.

Featured Speaker:
Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Former Chief Security Advisor for Europe, Microsoft

Preparing for Tomorrow’s Threats Today: The Critical Need for End-to-End Cyber Resilience

The tools that got you here won’t get you where you need to go.

If you’re still relying on legacy backup tools, bloated hardware, and time-draining admin work, you’re not just stuck, you’re falling behind. Our new MSP Growth Playbook reveals how outdated backup strategies are eroding your margins, hindering growth, and leaving your customers exposed.

In this unapologetically practical session, we’ll show you what high-growth MSPs are doing differently and how you can shift your backup from bottleneck to breakthrough.

You’ll learn:
- How to slash admin time by up to 90% and free your techs for higher-value work
- Why cloud-first, image-free backup is transforming margins for thousands of MSPs
- How to repurpose your data center instead of letting it drain profit
- What “ransomware resilience by design” really looks like with immutable, isolated backups
- How Cove’s predictable pricing model puts an end to cloud billing surprises

This isn’t about swapping one vendor for another. It’s about rethinking your entire approach to backup and unlocking time, margin, and flexibility that’s been buried under outdated systems.

Watch now if you’re ready to grow smarter.

Free Download - The MSP Growth Playbook

Rethink Backup or Get Left Behind - The MSP Growth Playbook

Choosing the right backup solution is never just about features - it’s about outcomes. In this live “Hear from a Peer” session, we spoke with Dave Brown, Director of Cloud Services at CSCM IT Solutions, a West Midlands-based MSP delivering IT services across the UK and beyond.

Dave has spent 15 years growing within CSCM, and he’s led their shift to Cove Data Protection. In this candid interview, he’ll share:
• Why CSCM moved away from traditional backup tools
• The operational and commercial impact of switching to Cove
• How Cove helps them deliver faster recovery and reduce support overhead
• Tips for other MSPs considering a change

If you’re still managing legacy backup, juggling multiple tools, or just not convinced by cloud-first options – this is your chance to hear directly from a partner who’s been there.

Watch to see what’s possible with Cove Data Protection.

Hear from a Peer! How CSCM Transformed Backup with Cove

IT teams and MSPs are under constant pressure to detect threats early - but threat hunting often feels like a black box.

In this webinar, Jim Waggoner and Kevin O’Connor guide you through a hands-on threat hunting session, showing how they identify, investigate, and surface hidden threats across cloud and endpoint environments.

You’ll learn:
- What threat hunting actually is (and how it differs from investigation)
- How to uncover threats hiding in normal traffic
- Why correlation across identity and endpoint data matters
- What sets apart a mature, effective threat hunting capability

Whether you’re new to the concept or looking to deepen your technical knowledge, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to act on threats more effectively.

Threat Hunting Explained: See It in Action, Learn How It Works

The Security Operations Center (SOC) is at an AI-fueled inflection point, facing an increasing volume, velocity, and sophistication of threats from cybercriminals armed with AI tools. To combat these challenges, many SOCs have turned to AI and ML tools, but the balance between AI’s potential and its risks remains a pressing issue — especially for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).  

Join us as we share the findings of Adlumin’s inaugural State of the SOC Report and provide a deeper look at how the Adlumin SOC is responding to today's cybersecurity threats. Will Ledesma, Director of MDR and SOC team leader at N-able, and Jim Waggoner, VP of Product Management at N-able, will share key insights from our State of the SOC Report including: 

- Where threats are coming from
- Benefits and challenges of AI  
- How AI has shaped and will shape the future of the SOC 
- Building the SOC of the future

This webinar is a must for any cybersecurity or IT professional. All registrants will receive an exclusive copy of the State of the SOC report.

2025 State of the SOC Report: The Impact of AI in SOCs

Ransomware is evolving faster than ever, outpacing traditional defenses and putting your critical data at risk. Are you confident in your backup and recovery strategy?

Join us for a session designed for tech professionals who want to stop wasting time on failed backups and outdated systems and start focusing on cybersecurity strategies that actually work. Learn how to enhance cyber resilience, prevent costly data loss, and free up IT resources for high-impact projects.

Don’t wait until it’s too late — learn how to fortify your cybersecurity strategy!

Strengthen Cyber Resilience & Stay Ahead of Ransomware - Socitm & N-able

N‑able is bringing together top industry experts for a partner-exclusive fireside chat series—designed to help MSPs and IT teams stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. Each month, we’ll feature a new specialist tackling critical topics like incident response, cyber resilience, compliance, and security blind spots that could be putting your business—and your customers—at risk.

For our March event, host David Weeks welcomes Ollie Spence, CEO of CybaVerse, a leader in cybersecurity innovation.

Ollie has built CybaVerse into a globally recognized, award-winning cybersecurity company, trusted by thousands of businesses worldwide. He’s passionate about helping MSPs and IT teams strengthen their security posture with automation and cutting-edge strategies.

In this session, David and Ollie will break down:
- The biggest security gaps MSPs and IT teams often overlook—and how to fix them
- The latest cyber threats targeting businesses today and what future-savvy teams are doing to stay protected
- Practical, scalable security strategies you can implement right away

If you’re responsible for protecting business-critical systems, customer data, or ensuring compliance, this session is for you.

The Cyber Experts Series – Oliver Spence, CEO, CybaVerse

The National Institutes of Science and Technology recently launched a new version of their cyber security framework, NIST CSF v2.0 to provide both government organizations and private industry a comprehensive set of cyber security guidelines. Better yet, this version can easily be integrated into existing frameworks and tools. 

In this session, Hilton analyst Ralph Villanueva will point out how the newly added governance aspect of this framework can boost the detection, respond and recover capabilities of any organization in the event of a cyber-security incident.

Improve Incident Detection and Response Governance with NIST CSF v2.0

Tune into this session from industry thought leader Vincent Amanyi as he highlights a robust strategy to develop core requirements and step-by-step approach to build a resilient foundation of your insider threat program.

Key takeaways:
- How to perform environment assessment. 
- How to establish a clean foundation that is central to your enterprise.
- Learn how to benchmark and manage your maturity journey.
- Develop the right mix of tool for monitoring.

Identifying and Building the Foundation of a Threat Program

How do you know the dangers you face regarding cybersecurity? A threat intelligence program is key to understanding the existing dangers.  However to be truly effective, threat intelligence must be relevant to your situation and environment. Ensuring  that threat intelligence is indeed intelligent in regards to your specific needs requires more than a basic data feed. The presentation from industry thought leader Charles Kolodgy will provide useful insight and information designed to allow you to align your threat intelligence with your specific needs by incorporating other components that complement threat intelligence.

Join this discussion to learn:
- What is threat intelligence and the specific value it provides.  
- How the MITRE ATT@CK framework is a useful tool for threat intelligence.
- Attack surface management is a valuable component of threat intelligence.
- Understand how threat intelligence and attack surface can be reconciled.
- How to evaluate the various cybersecurity threat intelligence offerings available.
- Harmonizing threat intelligence, attack surface, vulnerabilities, and business requirements when making cybersecurity decisions

Ensuring Threat Intelligence Remains Intelligent

APIs have become essential in today's digital ecosystem, enabling seamless data exchange, connecting applications, and driving innovation. However, as they contain valuable data, APIs can also serve as enticing targets for cyber attacks such as DDoS attacks, SQL injections, and cross-site scripting (XSS). A single API breach can jeopardize sensitive information and affect an organization's reputation, financial stability, and compliance. Therefore, it's crucial to have a robust API security program in place. 

In this webinar, we will explore the multifaceted landscape of API security and emphasize its pivotal role in modern enterprises' overall cybersecurity posture. We will delve into the foundational components of API security, explain how each relates to the evolving threat landscape, and discuss practical, actionable ways they can prevent cyber criminals from exploiting vulnerabilities in APIs. We will also provide insight into the capabilities of a mature, end-to-end API security program and define practical milestones to empower you to elevate your API security to the next level.

Key takeaways from this webinar include understanding how attackers' tools, techniques, and procedures are evolving, learning the components of API security and their respective roles, and taking actionable steps to assess and enhance your organization's API security posture. In addition, we will highlight forward-thinking strategies and how web application firewalls (WAFs) can help detect and block malicious traffic, and how API security solutions can provide comprehensive protection for your APIs and work with WAFs to ultimately protect applications and their data.

Elevating API Security

As we improve our defenses, the threat actors step up their game to cause more harm. We will take a practical approach and examine emerging threats from the Dark Web that aim to breach our defenses. 

Using practical examples, we will study these threats and discuss steps that you should be taking to prevent these cyber-attacks.

What to expect:
1. Introduction – Emerging Threats 2024
2. Ransomware Evolution
      - Less encryption, more exfiltration
      - Detection of data leaks
      - Testing for Ransomware attacks
3. Breaches in Cloud and Supply Chain
      - Know your data
      - Extend your perimeter
4. Addressing a Threat
5. Show ROI on Threat Detection and Prevention

Threat Intelligence: The Dark Side of Threat Detection

Unlock the future of backup and recovery solutions with Pure Storage and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in an exclusive TechTalk edition. Join us as we delve into groundbreaking insights from the recent report, "Reinventing Backup and Recovery with AI and ML." 

In this session, you’ll gain objective insights from ESG's research, which focuses on assessing the state of the backup and recovery market leveraging AI and ML. We’ll explore transformative impacts, current and future use cases, key stakeholders driving platform selection, and more. 

What you'll learn:

Objective insights from ESG's research on the backup and recovery market
Transformative impacts of AI and ML in data protection
Current and future use cases for AI and ML in backup and recovery
Key stakeholders driving platform selection

Don’t miss out on hearing directly from industry leaders as they dissect findings and offer actionable strategies. Gain an edge by understanding the transformative potential of AI and ML in reinventing backup and recovery. Reserve your spot now for this exclusive TechTalk event and revolutionize your data protection strategies for the future.

Cybersecurity Evolved: The Impact of AI and ML on Backup and Recovery

Cloud attacks are fast. Malicious actors leverage automation and other sophisticated techniques, executing attacks in less than 10 minutes on average. Security teams need to investigate and assess the situation to initiate an immediate response, but unfortunately, this is rarely the case. The overwhelming amount of data available in the cloud often needs more security context, slowing investigations to a crawl, as analysts are forced to collect and correlate evidence across multiple tools and domains manually.

So, how can security teams accelerate cloud investigation to combat these fast-moving threats? By joining this session, you'll gain valuable insights on:

- The importance of achieving the 5/5/5 benchmark for cloud detection and response – 5 seconds to detect, 5 minutes to triage, 5 minutes to respond.
- How to streamline investigation, minimizing manual effort from your security operations team.
- Key considerations for selecting security tooling optimized for swift investigation and response.
 
Speaker(s):
Matthew Rosenquist, Innovative CISO and Cybersecurity Strategist
Jamie Butler, Head of Runtime Protection and Response Strategy, Sysdig
Shantanu Gattani, VP, Product Management, Sysdig

Fast-Track Cloud-Native Investigations: Win the Race Against Bad Actors

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the ability to effectively detect and respond to threats is paramount for organizations across the globe. Traditional threat intelligence mechanisms have often been reactive, focused on addressing vulnerabilities after they have been exploited. However, with the increasing sophistication of cyber threats and the expanding digital footprint of modern enterprises, there is a critical need to pivot towards more proactive and dynamic strategies.

This presentation delves into the latest methodologies and technologies driving the future of threat intelligence. We will explore cutting-edge approaches to data collection and analysis, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms, which enable predictive threat modeling and real-time anomaly detection.

We will discuss the importance of expanding threat intelligence sources beyond traditional feeds, incorporating open source intelligence (OSINT), social media analysis, and dark web monitoring to gain a more comprehensive view of potential threats. The role of collaborative intelligence-sharing platforms will also be highlighted, emphasizing how they enhance collective defense mechanisms by fostering an ecosystem of shared knowledge and resources.

Beyond the Horizon: Use AI to Expand Threat Intelligence for Proactive Security

The thought of losing business-critical data can lead many to sleepless nights and lost weekends. The team at RC Willey, a home furnishing company and Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, got their peace of mind back with end-to-end immutability from Pure Storage and Veeam. Now, RC Willey can confidently restore in minutes, ensuring data resiliency in the event of a cyber threat.

In this session, RC Willey's Christopher Weiss will join Pure and Veeam to discuss how the powerful combination of Pure FlashArray//C and the Veeam Data Platform help his team know that their data is always available and quickly recoverable, no matter what.

What you’ll learn:
- Why you should consider FlashArray for backup storage, even if you still run spinning disk in production
- How Pure & Veeam’s focus on ease-of-use will reduce administrator overhead and reduce TCO
- What “end-to-end” immutability means in practice
- How Pure & Veeam provide industry leading cyber resiliency

End to End Immutability

Enabling threat detection and response should be a key consideration of managers and the senior leadership team. Speciﬁcally supporting threat detection and response processes  needed to deliver an eﬀective solution are imminent as organizations continue to face new and challenging operational risks. 

So what does this mean for any organization believing they are ready, or not? And how do they ensure that their  threat vulnerability and risk assessment (TVRA) is proportionate for the changing cybersecurity environment, while taking into account changes to operational eﬃciency and delivery of products and services to customers? 

Tune into this session presented by business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and major incident expert Steve Yates, as he discusses enabling threat detection and response for risks facing complex technology ecosystems. Yates will explore current threats and vulnerabilities and the need for a robust risk management process. In addition, he will delve into real technology major incidents, and explore where compliance is a key component of the end solution. Viewers are encouraged to share, in conﬁdence, their major concerns before the presentation if they wish to gain the most from this session.

 By the end of the session, you will be able to: 
- Be aware of the range of threats and vulnerabilities that you may encounter. 
- Form an understanding of a risk assessment framework for supporting cyber resilience. 
- Understand how an integrated technology framework can prevent significant disruptions.

About the speaker
Steve is a Founding Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute (FBCI), as well as being a Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) International Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) and Cyber Resilience Professional (CCRP).

The Processes to Deliver Effective Threat Detection and Response

Organizations worldwide are actively evaluating how to harness artificial intelligence and more specifically, generative AI, to capture the most value. However, as with most great opportunities, this brings risk and anxiety about protecting your organization. So how can organizations confidently go further, faster with GenAI? An eyes-wide-open approach is required to: 
 
Use AI to assist, augment, and automate secure access (AI for security) 
Secure the use of GenAI applications (security for AI) 
 
Join this real-world discussion between AI enthusiasts and learn how they're using AI right now to: 
 
Automate complex processes and streamline workflows to increase efficiency 
Ensure robust data privacy and compliance 
Bridge the gap between human expertise and AI potential to drive growth 
 
Don't miss this opportunity to gain expert insights from the forefront of AI innovation.

Use AI to outsmart threats and speed operations

Enabling Effective Threat Detection and Response

Organizations constantly face evolving cyber threats, and staying ahead requires more than just awareness—it demands actionable strategies to defend against adversaries. Join Mark Sangster, VP and Chief of Strategy, as he delves into Adlumin’s latest threat research and shares real-life examples of how to apply these insights to strengthen your own defenses.

Why You Can't-Miss This Webinar:
·        Sneak Peek: Learn more about Adlumin’s ransomware ransomware prevention capabilities used to thwart cybercriminals’ attacks.
·         Actionable Intelligence: Discover how to convert threat research into practical defense measures for your organization. 
·         Tailored Solutions: Learn specific strategies for protecting against ransomware based on Adlumin’s threat research and Mark Sangster’s upcoming book.

As a thank you for joining our webinar, we’ll send you the new Cyber Threat Insights 2024 Volume II report.

Real-World Applications for Better Security: Adlumin’s Threat Research Insights

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