Name: Threat Prevention Anchored by Strong Security Hygiene and Posture Management
Start: 2022-05-16T15:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-16T15:00:20.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.3

This channel features presentations by leading experts in the field of information security. From application, computer, network and Internet security to access control management, data privacy and other hot topics, you will walk away with practical advice for your strategic and tactical information security initiatives.

The current data security and privacy protection landscape is awash with tools, acronyms, buzzwords that promise to make data breaches and privacy incidents a thing of the past. Yet hotel chains, healthcare providers, banks, department stores and even governments constantly fall victim to data breaches, ransomware or nation-state attacks. 

The plain truth is that tools are only as good as the people that use them and the processes that go with it. Two thousand years ago, the Roman empire had better military tools than the nations they conquered. Yet through time, the Romans fell to the barbarians and are merely remembered through their ruins. Likewise, companies with the latest and most buzzworthy technology implemented still manage to fall victim to attacks. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader Ralph Villanueva will tap into over 15 years’ experience of data security and privacy protection to show why ultimately, the people behind the tools and the processes they use matter more in securing your organization’s data. 

Key Takeaways:
 - How to best deploy tools in the most cost-effective way to optimize benefits.
 - How to best deploy tools to mitigate data security risks from internal and external threats. 
 - The importance of a balanced and holistic approach to data security that equally considers people, processes and technology.

Tools are Nothing: Why People and Process Matter More in Data Security and Privacy

Cyberattacks are continuing at pace and we're regularly hearing of new data breaches. But who is responsible for ensuring the security of personal data? 

Traditional data protection approaches are failing against modern attack vectors. Organizations need future-ready strategies that go beyond compliance checkboxes to create resilient security frameworks. In this session, we'll explore the current risks to personal data & privacy and delve into the range of models that can be used to protect your organizations critical assets.

This webinar will take you through examples of recent data breaches, identifying the challenges being experienced, learning from what went wrong and how best organizations can plan for the future. Such planning will investigate current good practice, adding some “steroids” to them such that organizations can hopefully stay in front of the next “breach”!

Steve Yates – Chairman of the Resilience Association, will share frontline experience about critical data assets security and protection of user privacy.  

Key Takeaways:

- Be aware of the challenges being experienced in the protection of data security & privacy;
- Understand how best to plan your data resources and capacity to meet tomorrow’s defense;
- Discover the core organizational elements needed for the establishment of a strategic, tactical and operational solution

Strengthen Data Security Strategy for Tomorrow's Resilience Defense

AWS infrastructure offers robust native security mechanisms, but the shared responsibility model places critical configuration burdens on app owners. This creates gaps that attackers can actively exploit through misconfigurations, privilege escalation, and cross-service vulnerabilities which can compromise entire cloud deployments.

Security automation emerges as an essential defense strategy for threat modeling, enabling businesses to enforce security best practices from deployment through ongoing operations. Automated security controls provide continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection, and optimized remediation across AWS services. This ensures a consistent security posture while reducing human error and response times.

Join Ernesto Marquez, Founder and Project Director at Concurrency Labs, to explore proven AWS security automation strategies for threat mitigation.

Key Takeaways: 

- Implement automated security controls that enforce best practices across AWS services 
- Deploy continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection for multicloud environments 
- Configure automated remediation workflows for common security vulnerabilities 
- Integrate AWS security automation tools into comprehensive threat modeling frameworks 
- Establish governance policies that maintain security consistency across cloud deployments

Deploy Automated AWS Defenses for Threat Prevention

As cloud supply chain attacks escalate in sophistication, traditional SBOMs alone prove insufficient for comprehensive security. While SBOMs provide valuable component inventories, they lack runtime verification capabilities—creating a critical blind spot that malicious actors increasingly exploit. This gap between static analysis and runtime behavior represents one of the most significant vulnerabilities in modern cloud environments.

The "Bill of Behavior" (BoB) approach addresses this challenge by providing vendor-supplied profiles of expected runtime behaviors. Generated using eBPF technology, BoBs codify legitimate syscalls, file access patterns and network communications. This enables immediate anomaly detection without custom rule creation, allowing organizations to verify software integrity throughout the supply chain and during execution, dramatically reducing the attack surface while simplifying security operations.

Join Dr. Constanze Roedig, Key Researcher at SBA-Research and Founder of Fusioncore.ai, to discover how this emerging standard complements existing SBOM frameworks to create verifiable trust in your cloud ecosystem.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand how Software Bills of Behavior (SBoBs) create verifiable trust between vendors and clients
- Learn practical implementation strategies using existing OCI distribution standards
- Discover how BoBs significantly reduce attack surfaces across both runtime and supply chain vectors
- Explore immediate benefits of receiving vendor-supplied behavior profiles with software packages
- Discover how CNCF Kubescape allows anomaly detection out of the box

Beyond SBOMs: Runtime Verification for Bulletproof Cloud Supply Chains

Organizations are rapidly adopting AI technologies without fully understanding the security implications. This is creating unprecedented vulnerabilities in cloud environments. In turn, with AI accessible to all stakeholders, the human factor has become the weakest link in cybersecurity defense strategies.

This session addresses critical considerations for IT and cybersecurity leaders to balance business innovation with risk management. Learn how to establish ethical AI frameworks, implement proper access controls, and build awareness programs that protect your organization while enabling AI adoption.

Join Kathleen Mullin, vCISO and Consultant, to explore practical strategies for securing AI in cloud environments while maintaining business agility.

Key takeaways:

• Define clear RACI matrices for AI business risk ownership and accountability 
• Assess whether AI solutions truly meet business requirements vs. alternative approaches
• Establish data governance and access controls specifically for cloud-based AI systems 
• Develop comprehensive AI awareness programs for organizational stakeholders 
• Evaluate current and future cloud AI risks within your security framework

Considerations: Securing the Cloud And In Specific AI

As organizations accelerate cloud adoption, sophisticated security technologies often create a false sense of protection while the most significant threats emerge from within. Human behaviour continues to be the weakest link in cloud security, not due to malicious intent, but through everyday mistakes that inadvertently expose critical systems.

When they create friction, security measures designed to protect can inadvertently increase risk as users will find shortcuts to achieve their legitimate objectives. This session explores the psychology behind user decision-making and reveals how threat actors exploit human nature to bypass cloud defenses, turning legitimate business processes into attack vectors.

Join Simon Ratcliffe, independent management & technology consultant, to discover practical strategies for human-centered cloud security.

Key Takeaways:

- Identify psychological triggers that make users vulnerable to cloud-based attacks 
- Recognize how security friction drives risky user behaviors and workarounds
- Design user-centric security that reduces human error without compromising protection 
- Develop indicators to detect insider threats before they escalate 
- Build security awareness programs that create lasting behavioral change

Securing the Human Element: Why People Remain Cloud Security's Top Vulnerability in 2025

Insider threats are one of the most challenging security risks in multicloud environments, where authorized users can exploit fragmented access controls and limited visibility across platforms. When organizations lack comprehensive oversight of user activities, data flows and privilege escalation paths, the risk posed by human error and malicious insiders is much greater.



Multicloud architectures amplify insider threat risks through inconsistent identity management, scattered audit trails, and complex permission structures that create blind spots for security teams. Strategic threat modeling designed around insider risks enables organizations to map user access patterns, identify privilege abuse scenarios, and implement behavioral monitoring across all cloud platforms before incidents occur.



Join Sandeep Tripathi, IT Solutions Designer at Daimler Truck AG, to discover systematic approaches for detecting and preventing insider threats in complex multicloud environments.



Key Takeaways: 

- Identify insider risk scenarios across cloud platforms using threat modelling frameworks
- Implement comprehensive user behavior analytics and cross-cloud activity monitoring
- Limit insider threat impact and lateral movement using zero-trust access controls.
- Develop incident response protocols for insider-driven security breaches
- Create governance frameworks for managing privileged access in multicloud environments

Mitigate Insider Threats in Multicloud Through Strategic Modeling

Every minute your cloud infrastructure grows, it creates new entry points for potential attacks. As organizations rush to embrace cloud innovations, they're unknowingly building digital labyrinths where traditional security measures fall short.

Cloud security threats are often perceived as purely technical challenges, but the human factor remains one of the most significant and underestimated risks. Misconfigurations, weak passwords, phishing attacks, and inadequate training open doors to breaches even in sophisticated environments. Employees inadvertently expose sensitive data through social engineering, while administrators overlook crucial updates. Insider threats pose significant risks when cloud systems are accessible from anywhere.

Join Jyotirmayee Pradeep Kumar, Vice President of Cloud DevOps at a leading global bank, to explore human factors in cloud security threats.

Key Takeaways: 
- Human error as the leading cause of cloud security breaches 
- Phishing attacks and social engineering threat vectors 
- Managing insider threats in distributed cloud environments 
- Essential security awareness training and culture development 
- Zero Trust architecture implementation strategies

Managing Human Risk in Cloud Security Operations

AI technologies are simultaneously completely transforming business operations and creating new security vulnerabilities that cannot be addressed by technical safeguards alone. When implementing AI-driven solutions, human oversight is the biggest differentiator between secure innovation and catastrophic data breaches. As such, human intervention is both the biggest vulnerability and most significant defense in organizational security architectures.

To address this challenge, IT leaders can build a security champions program—a network of engaged employees who understand AI-specific threats and serve as frontline defenders. This group bridges the gap between security teams and other business units. They spread security awareness throughout the organization while maintaining operational efficiency.

Join Vincent Amanyi to discover proven strategies for empowering a team of security champions who can help safeguard your organization's AI initiatives and digital assets.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn to assess AI-related security risks across all business functions
- Design a people-centric security strategy that combines technical controls and human intelligence
- Establish and structure an effective Security Champions Committee with clear roles and responsibilities

Fortifying the Human Firewall: Cultivating Security Champions in Today's AI Landscape

In today's threat landscape, where the average data breach costs organizations $9 million, your employees represent both your greatest vulnerability and your strongest defense. As AI-powered threats become more sophisticated and remote work expands the attack surface, traditional security awareness approaches are failing to create lasting behavioral change. The human element remains implicated in over 80% of breaches, yet most training programs still focus on compliance checkboxes rather than cultivating security champions.

Effective security awareness requires a strategic approach that addresses psychological barriers, leverages behavioral science and creates sustainable security habits. By reimagining how we engage employees—from executive leadership to frontline staff—organizations can transform their security culture from a perceived burden into a competitive advantage that measurably reduces incident rates and response times.

Join Ralph Villanueva, with 15+ years leading enterprise security awareness programs, to discover proven methodologies that transform employee behavior.

Key takeaways:

- Implement psychological triggers that convert passive training participants into active security defenders
- Design role-specific awareness programs that address the unique risks of different departments
- Measure training effectiveness beyond completion rates with behavior-based security metrics
- Secure executive buy-in by connecting awareness initiatives to tangible business outcomes
- Deploy just-in-time learning techniques that deliver training when employees are most receptive

Transforming Human Risk: 10 Battle-Tested Strategies for Modern Security Awareness

Organizations are investing heavily in advanced security tools. But the most critical—and vulnerable—component of cybersecurity defense is people. As AI-driven attacks and quantum-era risks emerge, the gap between technological capabilities and human cognitive readiness threatens to widen dramatically.

Security professionals face unprecedented pressure when responding to incidents. Even with robust detection and recovery tools, factors like stress, fatigue and decision paralysis can significantly increase recovery times and amplify damage. This presentation introduces an expanded MTTR formula incorporating the "Human Cognitive Factor"—a groundbreaking approach that addresses the psychological dimensions of security response that technology alone cannot solve.

Join Sandra Estok (Founder & CEO, Way2Protect) to discover why preparing employees will determine your organization's survival in the 2026 threatscape.

Key Takeaways:

- Master the expanded MTTR formula that quantifies how human cognitive factors impact recovery timelines
- Identify early warning signs of team cognitive impairment before they compromise your security posture
- Implement practical strategies to build psychological resilience and decision-making clarity under pressure
- Establish metrics that measure human performance alongside technical metrics for comprehensive security assessment
- Learn how leadership decisions about culture, team structure, and psychological safety directly influence threat response effectiveness

Strengthening Your Human Firewall: Closing Cognitive Security Gaps Before 2026

Both endpoint security and endpoint management are becoming more challenging, largely driven by an increasingly complex threat landscape and a greater number (and assortment) of both managed and unmanaged endpoint devices. This, combined with an overabundance of tools deployed to deal with these threats and devices, has created a false sense of security and the inability to process all the data being collected.

 To combat this, organizations are making efforts to integrate the teams, tools, and processes involved, and these efforts are having a positive impact on visibility and awareness. Similarly, organizations are eager to adopt new tools like Autonomous Endpoint Management to help them achieve their goals.

In this session from Endpoint Management and Security Gabe Knuth, you’ll learn both what research reveals about the challenges facing organizations, the risks associated with the status quo, and the path forward to improving overall endpoint management and security.

Overcoming Increasing Endpoint Security & Management Challenges

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the 2026 threatscape reveals an increasingly complex and dynamic environment. Attackers are leveraging AI-driven exploits, supply chain vulnerabilities, and sophisticated cloud-native attack vectors to target critical infrastructure and sensitive data. Meanwhile, regulatory landscapes and compliance requirements are rapidly evolving, demanding stronger governance and resilience strategies.

This session explores the top cloud security threats projected for 2026, including identity compromise, API exploitation, misconfiguration risks, and multi-cloud visibility challenges. It also highlights forward-looking defense strategies, from zero-trust architectures and autonomous remediation to AI-powered detection and response. Participants will gain actionable insights into building a proactive cloud security posture that not only addresses today’s risks but anticipates tomorrow’s challenges.

Emerging Risks, Evolving Defenses and the Future of Cloud Security

AI-powered digital transformation creates a critical security paradox: the systems accelerating innovation are prime vulnerability points. As our data volumes multiply with AI pipelines, organizations face new risks that traditional security frameworks never needed to cover. With AI-related breaches projected to increase significantly in 2025, securing these data flows has become a board-level priority.

Security teams have to be able to balance transformation speed with robust protection across the entire AI ecosystem. This requires rethinking data governance, implementing continuous validation protocols and establishing clear visibility into automated decision paths—all while maintaining the business velocity that AI enables. The challenge isn't just technical; it requires new governance models that align security, data science and business objectives.

Join Oksana Denesiuk (Senior Product Manager, Solution Consultant - Billing, Kaiser Permanente) to discover practical frameworks that will secure AI systems without sacrificing innovation speed.

Key takeaways:

- Identify hidden vulnerability points in AI pipelines that traditional security tools miss
- Implement data lineage tracking and validation protocols across your automation ecosystem
- Establish board-ready metrics that measure AI security posture and data protection efficacy
- Deploy zero-trust principles specifically designed for machine learning environments
- Balance security controls with the speed and scale benefits that drive AI adoption

Neutralizing AI Vulnerabilities: The New Cybersecurity Imperative

AI is a friend, but it can be a terrible foe when not properly used. In cybersecurity, we also see AI as an enabler of cyber-criminal activities and security errors. In this talk, we will focus on what you need to know to defend your enterprise against AI-enabled cyberattacks. We will also discuss how to protect yourself and your company against errors caused by the improper use of AI.

Learning objectives:

- Understand emerging AI-enabled cybercriminal trends
- Recognize and avoid mistakes that stem from blindly trusting AI
- Apply AI effectively to reduce and manage your organization’s threat landscape

I vs AI – AI Threat Landscape 2026

As cyber threats evolve in complexity and impact, organizations need to consider a new strategic direction for addressing "The 2026 Threatscape." This presentation explores whether companies should implement strategies that account for Low Probability, High Impact Events and what it takes to become a High Reliability Organization (HRO).

Organizations that transform into HROs can achieve a return on their cyber-resilience investments and enhanced customer confidence. This requires organizations to acknowledge all failures regardless of size, embrace complexity, empower front-line employees, build resilience and leverage subject-matter experts—all while confronting the rise of AI-powered threats.

In this session, we'll identify potential "undisclosed" risks of significant global disruption and explain why organizations must be perceived as reliable.

Steve Yates - Chairman of the Resilience Association, will share frontline experience on building resilience into both cyber resources and organizational structure. He'll discuss critical scenarios organizations must plan for, while addressing third-party dependencies and the essential human element of cybersecurity.

Key Takeaways:

- Analysis of Low Probability, High Impact Events, with focus on Global Supply Chain vulnerabilities and critical third-party dependencies
- Core components of the High Reliability Organization framework, including principles for embedding resilience processes into daily operations
- Practical strategies for navigating the next wave of Digital Resilience, including challenges to Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) amid technological advancement
- Case studies of recent significant disruptive events that tested major global organizations, with observations on effective defensive capabilities
- Actionable insights for developing a comprehensive strategic approach incorporating training, knowledge transfer, cross-organizational collaboration, and compliance measures

The 2026 Threatscape – Is it Time for a New Strategy?

As AI rapidly transforms the technological landscape, organizations face unprecedented security challenges that mean cybersecurity approaches must evolve. The convergence of AI with enterprise systems introduces new vulnerabilities, from confidential data exposure to emerging threat vectors that traditional security frameworks simply aren't designed to address.

The democratization of AI tools has created a dangerous security gap, with users routinely entering sensitive information and developers uploading proprietary code to public AI systems without adequate safeguards. This vulnerability extends to IoT ecosystems where AI-enabled devices must operate securely even in physically accessible environments—from factory floors to smart buildings. IoT manufacturers typically implement inconsistent, device-specific security protocols rather than adopting industry-standard frameworks, creating fragmented protection against evolving threats.

Cybersecurity leaders play a significant role in this context. They must transition from purely defensive roles to become strategic partners in AI governance, actively shaping AI policy and strategy to address these emerging challenges. Join Rob Clyde, Past Chair of ISACA and Chairman of Crypto Quantique, as he shares essential insights on securing your organization in the AI era.

Key takeaways:

- Learn essential cybersecurity considerations for IoT and other critical systems in the AI era
- Understand how cybersecurity professionals must actively shape AI policy and strategy
- Gain insights from ISACA's recent research on the current state of AI and cybersecurity
- Explore real-world examples of cyberattacks and vulnerabilities involving AI-powered IoT devices
- Discover strategies to address Shadow AI and protect sensitive information in AI systems

Securing the AI Frontier: Evolving Cybersecurity for Tomorrow's Threats

AI is accelerating attacker speed, scale, and creativity. The result isn’t just “more threats,” it’s more inefficient security; overlapping controls, blind spots in identity and SaaS, and testing that lags behind change. The answer isn't in implementing another tool. Instead, it’s about operationalizing control optimization; measuring how each control actually reduces risk in the face of AI-aided techniques and reallocating investment accordingly.

In this talk, Evgeniy Kharam shares a practical, vendor-neutral way to quantify effectiveness: define adversary-centric objectives (ATT&CK-mapped), set baselines, continuously validate controls across identity, endpoint, SaaS, and cloud, and translate outcomes into ROI the business understands. He’ll cover quick wins (days, not months), common pitfalls, and how to use these metrics to justify roadmap and spend for 2026.

Key takeaways:

• A simple model to measure real control effectiveness against AI-driven tactics
• How to find and fix “control drift” created by digital transformation
• What to automate in continuous validation—and what not to
• A board-ready ROI narrative that ties security outcomes to business risk

The Control Optimization Imperative: Security ROI in the Age of AI Threats

Tune into this session to learn about the importance of identifying and protecting various types of assets within organizations and how using a multi-layered approach of implementing security solutions can reduce the risk of a potential cyber attacks and threats. Attendees will discover how threat actors locate sensitive information about their targets that can lead to compromising a company and stealing data. Furthermore, viewers will gain hands-on experience in getting started with using popular tools within the cybersecurity industry to identify security vulnerabilities on their systems and network while learning how to secure them. Lastly, viewers will explore the need for developing an incident response plan and creating a team that's well-prepared to catch any security event and handle any incidents.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand the need for data protection and defense-in-depth.
- Discover how organizations leak sensitive data without knowing.
- Get started with identifying potential security vulnerabilities.
- Explore the need for incident response planning and procedures
- Build an incident response team.

Protecting organization data against cyber attacks, threats and data breaches

When the headline says “Cloud Breach Due to Misconfigured Server,” we’re only getting a small part of the story. Critical information on what really went down rarely becomes public knowledge. 

But in order to keep cloud data secure, it’s essential to understand how attackers are exploiting the cloud API control plane, and expand the blast radius well beyond the initial misconfigured resource in order to inflict real damage. 

In this session, Josh Stella, Chief Architect at Snyk, will walk through the ways control plane compromise attacks happen, and why you need to go beyond traditional cloud security posture management in order to spot the deeper design flaws in your environment that make these attacks possible.

Attendees will gain an understanding of:
-What the cloud control plane is and why attackers need access to it
-How to identify control plane compromise risks in your environment
-Why cloud security hinges with secure design, and where to start

How Hackers Compromise the Cloud Control Plane

Preventative measures are top-of-mind when it comes to protecting your organization from ransomware attacks, but the reality is that even the best efforts can sometimes be thwarted. Often, organizations learn that despite their best efforts, they have been hit by a ransomware attack. How can you plan for this possibility and what do you do if it happens?  

Join Nic Hernandez, Systems Engineer at Clumio, as he discusses important topics in ransomware protection:

● Why choose a cloud-native data protection solution for mission-critical data in AWS
● Best practices for ransomware recovery
● The importance of RTO in business continuity
● How to optimize your backup plan to reduce cost 
● Importance of cross account/region recovery in the event of a disaster

Get Backup & Running: Ransomware Protection & Recovery in AWS

Businesses are now spending $170.4 billion on information security annually, according to research from Gartner. Despite this huge investment, IBM's annual security report found that the average cost due to a data breach rose from $3.86 million in 2020 to $4.24 million in 2021, the highest in 17 years. Headlines call out the latest victims, including some of the world's biggest corporations. But how can businesses protect themselves when employees are scattered, data is exploding, and devices are proliferating?

In this expert panel, cybersecurity experts will discuss best practices for proactively protecting your organization from the most common threats, and what to do when a breach does occur. 

Join us to explore:

-- Preventing breaches from external and internal threats
-- Tools and techniques for detection and response
-- How the speed of response to a breach can minimize its effects
-- Adapting breach protection to hybrid work models
-- How modern architectures such as IoT and edge affect a breach prevention strategy


Panelists include:
Jeroen Hekelaar,  Manager, Solutions Engineering EMEA, SonicWall
Carl Leonard, Cybersecurity Strategist, Proofpoint

Sources:
https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/resources/threat-reports/state-of-phish
https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/resources/e-books/legacy-dlp-crumbles-in-the-cloud
https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/resources/threat-reports/state-of-phish
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/resources/analyst-reports/gartner-market-guide-insider-risk-management
https://www.sonicwall.com/2022-cyber-threat-report/
https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/resources/white-papers/voice-of-the-ciso-report

Don't Become the Next Cautionary Tale: Top Breach Prevention Strategies

This talk will detail how to plan your application ecosystem landscape to withstand multi-layered attack.

Key Takeaways:
• Understand which tools are better aligned with your stack.
• Apply best practice to develop active simulation exercise.
• Review of disaster recovery as monthly initiatives.
• Align your business continuity to critical assets.

Planning Your Application Ecosystem Landscape to Withstand Multi-Layered Attack

Hackers will never stop their attack attempts, and organizations must be aware they could be breached any second! So tune into this presentation to discover:
• How to best prepare against those attacks? 
• What tools to leverage?
• How can your security team detect even the latest, more sophisticated foes and, most importantly, how can you respond to their attacks?

Join Dr. Erdal, corporate CISO and president of the Global CISO Forum, to learn how you can master your breach detection learning from real-life examples.

The Art of Breach Detection

Today's security operations centers (SOCs) are inundated with an endless stream of alerts, vulnerabilities, and threat intelligence. But the reality is that no matter how large or well-resourced a security operations team, there will always be more work to do. So the next-gen SOC must be calibrated to work smarter, not harder. 

In this webinar you will learn:
•  What are the main inefficiencies in SOC operations.
•  How to use technology to address the inefficiencies.
•  How to use people and processes to address the inefficiencies.

The Next-Gen SOC: Optimizing to Make the Most of Limited Resources

Having a vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) helps improve network defenses and enhance mission assurance, helping you

launch faster
with less risk
while safeguarding sensitive data

Get the expert playbook on VDPs from the DoD, Keurig Dr Pepper, and HackerOne. In less than an hour, you’ll learn how to create a VDP that expands your vulnerability awareness, builds compliance into your processes, and moves you to a higher level of security.

Understanding Your Attack Surface Through Vulnerability Disclosure

To create secure applications at the speed of DevOps, teams embrace the shift left mantra. But inserting security into app development can appear as a speed bump and even as an obstacle to continuous deployment. If 2021 proved anything it is that securing your applications still has to be priority. But it doesn’t have to be drag. By adopting a DevSecOps mindset and embedding security into the product lifecycle, teams can be fast and secure. 

Please join guest speaker Janet Worthington, Forrester Senior Analyst, and Daniel Shugrue, Digital.ai Sr. Product Marketing Manager, to hear the latest on where organizations are in the shift left transformation, the state of application security, and where teams can dig in to further their DevSecOps efforts.

Create secure applications at the speed of DevOps

As the pandemic continues to affect both business and personal lives, expectations of a ‘return’ to pre-pandemic conditions have faded from most plans. Underlying trends that have always driven information security, such as new technologies, greater compliance mandates and more severe security incidents, continue to be significant change agents. The 2022 Thales Data Threat Report, based on data from a survey of almost 2,800 respondents from 17 countries across the globe conducted by 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, reviews and analyzes these trends and changes.

Many organizations continue to be unprepared for the security challenges of diverse threats, ransomware, accelerating cloud transformation and hybrid work. In fact, according to the report’s survey 21% of all respondents said they had experienced a ransomware attack. Furthermore, 22% of respondents worldwide said they have paid or would pay a ransom for their data.

This webinar will review the changing landscape of data security risks and threats. Specifically, you can expect to learn about:
• Leading sources of data threats
• Ransomware preparedness and how it has changed breach economics
• Breaches and their impacts weigh on security planning
• Data sprawl’s impact on data security
• Cloud usage trends and security practices in the cloud
• Threats of remote and hybrid workforces
• Future threats such as quantum computing

Key Findings from 2022 Data Threat Report - Global Edition

Data breaches increased a staggering 68% in 2021, according to Identity Theft Resource Center's annual report, affecting individuals, municipalities and nation states, businesses large and small, and public utilities and resources. Attacks involving ransomware more than doubled, and the most popular business targets were in manufacturing and utilities. Understanding these trends and anticipating how and why attackers might single out your business operations or employees is critical to mitigation.

This panel of security experts will explore the current state of cybersecurity and how to use threat intelligence and threat hunting to identify risk and avert disaster.

Join us to learn about:

-- The new breed of cyber criminals and why they attack
-- The types of breaches your business should fear most
-- The best sources of threat intelligence 
-- How threat hunting and threat modelling can help your business proactively deter attackers
-- How to increase security awareness throughout the organization

Panelists include:
Michael Pepin, CISSP, Sr. Security Architect, Clumio
Carl Leonard, Cybersecurity Strategist, Proofpoint

Sources:
Proofpoint 2022 Voice Of The CISO report
https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/resources/white-papers/voice-of-the-ciso-report
 
Proofpoint The Human Factor 2021
https://www.proofpoint.com/uk/resources/threat-reports/human-factor
 
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2021
https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/2021/masters-guide/

How to Keep up with the Cyber Threat Landscape

The bad news? Data breaches now play a role in ransomware and extortion attacks, espionage, cyber fraud, business-email compromise, and more. The good news? As security vendors and internal security teams up their game, threat actions are converging, and threat actors now have only so many initial attack vectors to break in and do bad things.

You must simplify your prevention strategy to develop an effective means to stop data breaches, regardless of the flavor of attack. But how?

Join Nick Cavalancia to explore how you can elevate your data breach prevention strategy by viewing it through the lens of threat actor actions. Topics will include:
• Start with the bad guy and work backwards to strategy.
• Focus on initial attack vectors.
• Translate threat actions into practical prevention strategy.
• Lessons from MITRE’s ATT&CK Framework and industry trends.

Use bad-guy trends, tactics and techniques against them for effective strategy

Certain types of unclassified information are extremely sensitive, sought after by strategic competitors and adversaries, and often have legal safeguarding requirements. Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) is government-created or -owned information that requires safeguards or dissemination controls consistent with laws, regulations and government policies. 

Like Personal Data (PD) and Personally Identified Information (PII), CUI is highly-valued information, requiring better understanding by cybersecurity and compliance professionals. 

In this presentation, we dive into the essential aspects of CUI, such as
• CUI concepts and NIST standards.
• The CUI registry, categories and markings.
• What cybersecurity and compliance professionals must know to protect CUI.

Decoding CUI: A Highly Valued Data Type at Risk

Breaches happen by clever and well-armed cybercriminals who use many tactics, techniques, and procedures to infiltrate IT infrastructure, implant malware, and execute attacks. There is a lot at stake, so you need to know as much as possible with little or no delay to minimize adverse consequences.

Network monitoring that pipelines packets from the core network to cybersecurity analysts and analytics is the foundation of detecting and responding. Stealth is an often-used weapon, so monitoring with the highest possible fidelity is necessary to detect increasingly subtle Indicators of Attack and Indicators of Compromise.

This webinar will provide a stepwise plan for achieving faster breach detection and maximizing resilience to cyber risks by showing you how to: 
 
• Instrument any network, physical, virtual, hybrid-cloud, for high-fidelity monitoring to losslessly acquire and reliably deliver network packet data to SOC and SecOps security analysts and the analytics and tools they use
• Capture, store, and organize network packet data for use as security evidence 
• Forensically analyze security evidence to facilitate a rapid and effective response

Faster Breach Detection

We must learn from our mistakes. Exploits work, breach happens, and threat actors succeed because after decades of cyber security effort we are still missing the mark and doing what we know needs to be done to protect digital business. Join Yaniv Bar-Dayan, Vulcan Cyber co-founder and CEO, and Ali Naqvi, Vulcan Cyber senior director of solutions architects, to learn how to avoid the top five mistakes that lead to enterprise security breaches. Join us to:
Learn how your teams can avoid these mistakes and proactively protect against the latest cyber threats.
Learn how to shift to a risk-based approach to vulnerability assessment, prioritization and mitigation.
See a demo of the Vulcan Cyber risk management platform used to help protect your business against Log4Shell risk.
 
Don’t let common mistakes, and known breach vectors like Log4Shell, catch your teams unprepared and vulnerable to the growing number of exploits and threat actors facing our business today.

Avoid The Top Five Breach-Inducing Mistakes and Mitigate Log4Shell Risk

Modern web applications have become complex, heavily reliant on APIs for virtually every online interaction. This complexity brings with it the potential for new entry points for hackers and unfortunately more overhead for the business to manage and track.

Akamai’s Director of Security Technology and Strategy, Sean Flynn, takes us behind the scenes of how attackers look for new vulnerabilities and used obfuscation to prolong Log4J zero-day attacks.

In this webinar, you will also learn about:
- A new reflection/amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1
- Why do attackers focus more on APIs than traditional applications
- What companies can do to stay ahead of future threats

The Application Attack Threat Landscape - After Log4J

Cybercriminals have an arsenal of tactics at their disposal - phishing, malware, social engineering, email fraud, identity theft (EAC), and ransomware. Successful attacks only need one tactic to work, but companies have to protect against all of them. The number one attack vector is still email and the number one target is still people. 
In 2021, attacks became more sophisticated and volume increased by ~20%. Email-based attacks were more successful with 83% of companies falling victim to successful phishing attacks (up from 57% the year before).

In this session, Mike Bailey will:
• Explore recent trends in the threat landscape
• Discuss best practices of a people-centric security strategy including technology, processes, and people
• Show how a layered, integrated approach can yield success

Fighting Cybercrime in 2022: All for one and one for all

Data breaches are more prolific than ever, with 2021 seeing 5250 confirmed instances involving large companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Ubiquiti. Such breaches are not only a privacy concern, but are also very costly to the involved organization, incurring a loss of $4.24 million on average. The good news, however, is that in breaches where strong Zero Trust principles were employed this cost decreased by $1.76 million.

In this talk we show how Application-Layer Encryption (ALE) can be applied at the database level to provide strong protections against breaches. While traditional at rest database encryption helps protect your data in case of a direct breach, database ALE can ensure cryptographically that even authorized applications have minimal access. This means, that even if your data producing application contains a vulnerability, compromising this application won't give the attacker access to your data. Through the use of modern cryptographic techniques, database ALE can even be implemented without fully sacrificing useful capabilities of the database, such as search.

About our presenter: 
Philip has a background in mathematical engineering but has always had a strong interest in computer science, a combination which eventually resulted in a PhD in symmetric cryptography. Today he has the technical responsibility for the development of CYBERCRYPT's Encryptonize product.

Preventing Database Breaches with Application-Layer Encryption

When attackers see a way in, they take it.

If you want to stay ahead of attackers, it's time to make the shift from a focus on threat intelligence to risk intelligence.

Today’s security leaders are squeezed between increased risks and attacks, expanding attack surfaces, and decreasing resources, which has them streamlining defense strategies and investments towards what matters most and what exposures are critical. 

Join us for a lively discussion on the current security leadership shift of focus from threat intelligence to risk intelligence. Security leaders will share their journey to the sweet spot: that balance between visibility, priority and value that helps focus their security practices towards confident protection (vs whack-a-mole). Areas covered will include: 
-> Balancing protections inside and outside the network
-> Various ways of prioritizing risk and what doesn’t work
-> Mapping potential paths into and out of your network
-> Merging attack surface management, vulnerability and threat information to identify real risk

Redefining Cyber Intelligence: The Shift from Threat to Risk

Cyber threats continue to increase and are impacting almost all aspects of modern life.  Ransomware, malicious domains, espionage and digital disruption are the most common attacks of recent times.  Understanding how these vulnerabilities and their exploits are changing, provides helpful insights into combatting new threats. Cyber threats change over time, as do the countermeasures that best protect against them like:

• Ransomware
• DDoS (distributed denial-of-service)
• State-sponsored cyber actors
• Social engineering and phishing threats -- increase in sophistication
• Data exportation, breaches and insider threat

Key takeaways:
• Leverage best practices and frameworks such as NIST & ISO 27001 to manage the threat landscape.
• Prompt innovation can help protect against cyber threats.
• Build cyber threats awareness and training culture to test it regularly.
• Consider the source and validity of information when making decisions.

Trends in Cyber Threats and Top Countermeasures

Alignment is the key to a future-proof cloud strategy that can adapt to shifting business needs in any organisation. InfoSec leaders and CIOs  play an important role in guiding all parties toward alignment on the project phases, expectations and outcome. 

In this session we’ll walk through:
- a brief history of zero trust and the 3 main stages
- the unique approach offered by the Zero Trust Exchange, and why a comprehensive zero trust architecture matters


The presenter: 
Lee Dolsen is the Chief Architect for Zscaler’s Asia Pacific business, based out of Singapore.  He has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry focusing on various aspects of Internet Security and Content Delivery. Lee has been living and working inAsia for the past 14 years. He joined Zscaler in 2012.

What are the 3 main stages of Zero Trust and why does it matters to you?

Cyber Threats and Breach Protection

With any cyber-threat prevention strategy, organizations must know the assets connected to their networks, whether these assets are vulnerable to exploitation, and which vulnerable assets should be prioritized for remediation actions. These activities are known collectively as security hygiene and posture management. Unfortunately, organizations often manage these fundamental security best practices haphazardly, opening them up to cyber threats or the ever expanding attack surface. 

In this keynote presentation, ESG Senior Principal Analyst and Fellow, Jon Oltsik, will share new research and discuss the challenges around security hygiene and posture management to explore what companies can do to both address these challenges and establish best practices.

Threat Prevention Anchored by Strong Security Hygiene and Posture Management

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