Advanced Persistent Threats - The Hacker's Latest Weapon or Just Marketing Spin?

It is now widely known that SMBs are a key target for cyber criminals. They are now seen as the ‘low hanging fruit’ as SMBs generally cannot afford the same investment in cyber security initiatives when compared to larger firms. Unfortunately, as far as the cyber criminals are concerned, anyone on the internet is fair game. Unlike their larger counterparts, a cyber attack on an SMB can be very debilitating and can even cause the business to shut down. SMBs face their own unique challenges when it comes to defending against cyber-attacks. Within this presentation, you will hear about how the Invictus Games in Sydney in 2019 was secured using minimal funding and time as a case study. We will then explore some of the unique challenges faced by SMBs when it comes to cyber security. We will look at how focusing on your core business and risk management helps direct efforts to the right places in a cost effective manner. We will then explore what a typical attack looks like and discuss the basics that need to be covered to provide an SMB with an ability to defend itself from cyber-attacks while avoiding overspend.

Web APIs that handle critical workflows like login or new accounts creation are constant targets of attacks. Web site owners need to protect these endpoints in order to prevent account takeover as well as the proliferation of fake accounts.

In this presentation, we’ll look through real examples at how attackers evolve their strategies as soon as protections are in place. We’ll also provide some insights into the most effective detection methods in order to counter the evolution and to stay ahead.

And finally, we’ll discuss how the evolution of the Internet ecosystem is affecting the web security world and make the task more complex.

The cybersecurity industry has seen an investment of over $45 billion in the past 15 years. Hundreds of thousands of jobs in the field remain unfilled amid breach after breach, and the problem has come to a head. It is time for everyone―not just techies―to become informed and empowered on the subject of cybersecurity.

Knowing this, author Dr. Neil Daswani covers some of the largest security breaches and the technical topics behind them such as phishing, malware, third-party compromise, software vulnerabilities, and unencrypted data in his latest book, Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone.

In this session, Neil Daswani is joined by Sushila Nair where they’ll discuss:
- Effective prevention and detection countermeasures
- Meta-level causes of breaches
- Crucial habits for optimal security in your organization
- and much more!

Whether you are seeking to implement a stronger foundation of cybersecurity within your organization or you are an individual who wants to learn the basics, this webinar will answer your questions and prepare you for the future of cyber security.

This episode is part of Cyber Authors, a new series with Sushila Nair. We welcome viewer participation and questions during this interactive interview.

Businesses rely on AI models that transform data into actionable insights. Traditional methods for creating AI models require a lot of data that is collected at some central location. Federated Learning (FL), however, takes a different approach by turning the centralised paradigm on its head and moving models or functions to be executed to where the data is.

As a distributed process that does not require a single depository of data and where different parties can train an AI model without having to share the data, FL can be used in situations where data privacy is paramount.

This paradigm shift is also creating new opportunities to democratize AI, which has the potential to transform the data economy.

Join this month's episode of the Business Intelligence Report with Eric Topham, Co-Founder & Data Science Director at The Data Analysis Bureau, to learn more about how FL works and what opportunities it creates for consumers and enterprises.

Viewers will also hear from the experts about the different use cases for federated learning, especially in the context of customer privacy, regulatory compliance, and integrating siloed data. The topics up for discussion will include:
- The emergence of FL
- FL, the democratization of data and what this means for Big Tech
- How FL can be used as a privacy-preserving technology
- Business use cases for FL
- How FL can be part of your data strategy

Speakers
- Dr. Pedro Baiz, Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, AESE: Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering Group, Department of Computing at Imperial College London
- Max Robbins, CEO of AI Market

This episode is part of The Business Intelligence Report original series with Eric Topham, Co-Founder & Data Science Director at The Data Analysis Bureau. We welcome viewer participation and questions during this interactive panel session.

Cloud adoption is skyrocketing. The Hyperscale providers are reporting double digit increases in revenues. Cloud can be more secure than on premises environments, but the optimal word is can. Cloud security is a shared responsibility model. How business approach their part of the security, management and oversight of cloud is a critical part of the success puzzle.

In this session we’ll explore:

• Biggest Cloud Security Challenges of 2021
• Adopting a Risk Management Framework
• A life cycle approach that includes Security by Design and Privacy by Design
• Regulatory considerations and cloud privacy
• Tools that can help


Jo Peterson, Vice President, Cloud & Security Services, Clarify360)
Nicolas Moy, VP Security Engineering, Fairway Independent Mortgage

Cloud adoption has witnessed exponential growth over the past few years. It provides many advantages for both individuals and organizations. However, at the same time, many new cyber security risks have arisen due to this rapid growth of cloud adoption. A conventional risk management framework does not fit well with cloud applications, as those frameworks were designed for applications running in traditional on prem environments.

In this presentation we will discuss:

• New cyber risks that organizations are exposed to when they adopt cloud.
• Impact of Cloud breaches.
• Techniques used by attackers to breach cloud deployment.
• A framework for Cloud Risk Management.

Working remotely has become the new normal. This, and many other changes organizations adopted last year in response to the pandemic are likely to stay for the long term. According to Gallup, about two-thirds of U.S. remote workers want to continue to work remotely. So, how can organizations continue to support their growing distributed workforce at a time where reports of security threats have increased by 400% compared to pre-pandemic levels? 

Here is where the zero-trust approach to security comes into play. 

Join this month's episode of The (Security) Balancing Act with Diana Kelley and guests as they discuss the emergence of zero trust (“Trust Nothing, Verify Everything”) and what it helps achieve for enterprises in the age of cloud and remote work.

Viewers will learn about:
- The evolution of the security perimeter and the shift to zero trust
- Why zero trust is an approach and not a product
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTA) vs. corporate VPN
- Real-world stories and practical hands-on guidance from people who have deployed a ZTA

Speakers:
- Mari Galloway, CEO, Women's Society of Cyberjutsu
- Jonathan Nguyen Duy, Vice President, Global Field CISO Team, Fortinet
- Other Panellist TBA

This episode is part of The (Security) Balancing Act original series with Diana Kelley. We welcome viewer participation and questions during this interactive panel session.

Endpoint security remains a major challenge for organizations, and in November 2020, Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that global cybercrime costs will reach $10.5 trillion USD a year by 2025. That’s more than triple the amount that it was in 2015. With remote working still very much the norm, and hybrid workforces emerging, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of multiple endpoints and the risk they carry.

With the threatscape continuing to evolve and cyber attacks becoming even more sophisticated, experts are here to share how security leaders can take the complication out of endpoint security.

Join us to learn:
- Common endpoint threats from the first half of 2021
- Emerging endpoint threats and what to prepare for going forward
- Leading endpoint protection strategies and how they can be integrated into your existing security solutions
- And more

So you want to showcase your skills and speak at a technical conference? Great. Your voice matters. Conference organizers highly value new voices, and they are always on the lookout for ways to bring more talent to the stage. The good news is that there are opportunities abound and by submitting to conferences, you're honing in on your expertise, experience and knowledge, creating the most stellar of proposals. Join us for an honest discussion of cybersecurity industry influencers who weren't always used to being accepted when they initially submitted for speaking opportunities. They will share their stories of how they transformed every "no" into a "YES"!

A security operations center (SOC) is a dedicated site where enterprise information systems (web sites, applications, databases, data centers and servers, networks, desktops and other endpoints) are monitored, assessed, and defended by a team of information security professionals.

This session will give you insight of a SOC from a woman's perspective. You will be taken through some of the challenges faced by many of us today while working in a male dominated field. By the end of this webinar, you will have learned about the day-to-day activities in a SOC, how to manage your work-life balance, and how to acquire the skills that will help you grow in this field.

SolarWinds Cyberattack came as a wake-up call to many. An attack that most cyber-aware /savvy organizations could not detect for many months. It is a reminder of how an interconnected world can impact us all in a short time.
Join Sunil Sharma, Director of Cyber Defense for Middle East’s leading provider of strategic consultancy and tailored information security solutions and services company, Help AG, the cybersecurity arm of Etisalat, to discuss supply chain attacks, techniques, and tactics used by advisories to execute such attacks and strategies to detect and respond to supply chain attacks.

This presentation will describe the value added by deploying honeypots in an enterprise. How honeypots assist defenders across the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and their role in a Zero-Trust Architecture.

As users cost organizations billions of dollars due to simple errors or malicious actions, organizations believe that they have to improve their awareness efforts to make more secure users. The reality is that it takes a multilayered approach that acknowledges that users will inevitably make mistakes or have malicious intent, and the failure is in not planning for that.

Using lessons from tested and proven disciplines like military kill-chain analysis, counterterrorism analysis, industrial safety programs, and more, join Sushila Nair with author Ira Winkler on how to determine the appropriate countermeasures to implement and prevent cybersecurity breaches and other user-initiated losses. Join now and learn how to:

-Minimize business losses associated with user failings
-Proactively plan to prevent and mitigate data breaches
-Optimize your security spending
-Cost justify your security and loss reduction efforts
-Improve your organization’s culture

Business technology and security professionals will benefit from the information provided by these two well-known and influential cybersecurity speakers and experts.


This episode is part of Cyber Authors, a new series with Sushila Nair. We welcome viewer participation and questions during this interactive interview.

VERIS, the Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing, is a set of metrics designed to provide a common language for describing cybersecurity incidents (and data breaches) in a structured and repeatable manner. VERIS provides cyber defenders and intelligence practitioners with the ability to collect and share useful incident-related information - anonymously and responsibly – with others.

VERIS underpins the annual Data Breach Investigations Report. VERIS and its A4 Threat Model – Actors, Actions, Assets, Attributes – help codify incident-related information for threat modeling, intelligence analysis, breach mitigation, and detection / response improvement.

Key takeaways for this session include:
• Understanding cybersecurity incidents through the VERIS lens
• Recognizing the VERIS A4 Threat Model: Actors, Actions, Assets, Attributes
• Getting started in Threat Modeling with VERIS

Phishing and ransomware attacks continue to rise, according to Proofpoint’s State of the Phish report for 2020. Organizations in the U.S. are at risk, the increase in remote work due to the pandemic has fueled a spike in attacks, and phishing attempts are up by 14 percent compared to the previous year.

Email continues to be the number 1 delivery vehicle, but other social engineering schemes that rely on social media, voicemail (“vishing"), SMS phishing (“smishing”), and malicious USB drops are also of concern for organizations. Ransom demands are also on the rise, but according to the report, paying the ransom is not guaranteed to work as many companies that paid the ransom failed to receive a decryption key.

Join this month's episode of The (Security) Balancing Act as Diana Kelley and guests discuss why ransomware is surging again, which sectors are most at risk, the threat to enterprises and how it is being used for more than just ransom (ex: distractionware, destructionware, etc).
- The rise in ransomware under the cloak of the pandemic
- Why email continues to be the channel of choice
- The difference between fully automated and human-operated campaigns
- How to decide whether or not to pay or not to pay the ransom
- Why your backups may not be immune to ransomware
- Addressing the threat with best practices

Speakers
- Jessica Gulick, Founder & CEO of Katzcy Consulting
- Courtney Radke, CISO for National Retail, Fortinet
- Patrick Lee, Senior Incident Response Consultant, Rapid7

This episode is part of The (Security) Balancing Act original series with Diana Kelley. We welcome viewer participation and questions during this interactive panel session.

Breach detection efficiency is all about consistent monitoring, organization and communication, experience (and expertise), training and proper tooling.

So is mountain rescue.

If you fall in a crevasse, get caught in an avalanche or come off a ridge, your survival depends only on time.

And in a mountaineer's career you know this will happen, as you should know, working in IT Security, that you will be breached.

So let’s be prepared, and learn from 200 years of mountain exploration how to quickly and efficiently get out of a worst case scenarios.

Protecting your organization requires vigilance and skills combined with effective controls and detections, just having a SOC is not enough.

SOCs vary in size, scope and staffing across various industries, outsourced and in-house, they exist to monitor, detect, and respond to evolving threats.

Guarding against failures in the security architecture is not just about selecting the right tools and suppliers, it requires constant validation of your people processes and technology.

Attend this session to learn:
· Why SOC validation is crucial in confronting threat evolutions.
· The elements of a continuous SOC validation and improvement program.
· How continuous and automated red teaming and BAS make SOC validation achievable with existing resources.

Over 37 billion records were exposed in breach events in 2020 - by far the most records exposed in a single year, according to a recent report by Risk Based Security. How has remote working impacted your organization's security posture? What lessons can security professionals learn from the recent wave of breaches and what steps can enterprises take to strengthen security in 2021?

This keynote panel of security experts and industry leaders will explore the best practices for breach prevention, as well as share real-life lessons from the frontlines on what works and doesn't work.

Viewers will learn more about:
- The reality of data breaches
- Why data breach severity is rising
- Ransomware attacks on the rise (doubling from 2019 to 2020) and the threat to businesses
- Technologies that help with breach prevention, detection and response
- Why security awareness matters and best practices for educating employees to be cyber secure

Moderated by:
Michelle Drolet, CEO, Towerwall
Nico Fischbach, Global CTO, Forcepoint
Micheal Meyer, Chief Risk and Innovation Officer, MRSBPO
Andy Thompson, Research Evangelist, CyberArk
Trustwave (TBA)

This talk introduces the main security pitfalls that every developer needs to know about before writing and shipping code.

A recent non-official proposal of OWASP top 10 helps us better understand what weaknesses our contemporary systems face and how we can manage our daily job to avoid them. The new candidate, SSRF (Server-side Request Forgery), will also be highlighted in more detail.

What you will learn:

- What are the biggest mistakes we make while writing and shipping code?
- Why is OWASP top 10 relevant for our daily jobs?
- How can we avoid the most critical vulnerabilities?