Name: Cutting through the Fog of More: Use MDR or XDR to Find Real Threats
Start: 2022-07-19T12:00:00Z
End: 2022-07-19T12:00:27.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

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.

Identity governance and administration (IGA) programs are critical for managing enterprise security and compliance, yet many organizations face persistent challenges. Operational inefficiencies, reliance on manual processes, and the growing complexity of managing diverse applications and identities often hinder success. As the digital landscape evolves, the stakes are higher than ever for enterprises to modernize their IGA strategies.

This session explores the latest research from Omdia, revealing how leading organizations are addressing these challenges. From leveraging AI agents to automating workflows, discover actionable insights that can transform your IGA program into a driver of business value. Whether you’re refining an existing initiative or planning a new one, this session will equip you with the tools and strategies to stay ahead in 2026.

Join Todd Thiemann, Principal Analyst at Omdia, to uncover what’s working, what’s not, and where the future of IGA is headed.

Takeaways:
- Strategies for integrating more applications while controlling costs.
- Insights into rationalizing workforce identity security tool portfolios.
- The role of AI agents in combating deepfakes and enhancing automation.
- Best practices for governing non-human identities (NHIs) and AI agents.
- Key trends shaping the future of enterprise IGA programs.

Elevating Enterprise IGA Programs for the Future

The rapid growth of digital identities, evolving compliance demands and advanced cyber threats have made identity governance and administration (IGA) a critical priority for modern enterprises. Without a structured governance framework, organizations risk operational inefficiencies, data breaches and reputational harm. Issues like access sprawl and privilege misuse are no longer just IT concerns—they are pressing business challenges.

This session will explore how businesses can implement effective IGA strategies to manage identities, ensure compliance and mitigate risks. Learn how to align tools, policies and processes into a cohesive framework that supports enterprise-wide governance. Discover actionable steps to build a compelling business case, standardize global implementation and achieve quick wins that drive executive buy-in.

Join Vincent Amanyi, Founder of Boleaum Inc. to gain practical insights and proven strategies for enabling IGA success at scale.

Key Takeaways:
- Build a persuasive business case to secure board-level approval for IGA initiatives.
- Define a scalable implementation model for geographically dispersed organizations.
- Benchmark and strengthen your organization’s IGA foundation.
- Discover quick-win strategies to accelerate IGA adoption and demonstrate ROI.

Mastering Identity Governance: Strategies for Enterprise Success in 2026

Identity and access management is at a crossroads. Reliant on passwords and centralized directories, traditional IAM can’t meet the demands of today’s distributed infrastructures and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. As businesses expand their digital presence, they need adaptable, privacy-preserving solutions to safeguard their assets and ensure seamless operations across ecosystems. But implementing these approaches isn’t without its challenges. 

Modern IAM offers transformative opportunities through decentralized identity models and blockchain-enabled verifiable credentials. These replace static identifiers with cryptographically signed proofs, allowing organizations to achieve tamper-proof identity verification, transparent lifecycle management and enhanced privacy. These new solutions align with zero trust principles, paving the way for trust-minimized environments that prioritize security and user control.

Join Yeghisabet Alaverdyan, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor at IIAP MESCSA RA, to share her insights on how the latest IAM strategies are redefining identity management for the modern age.

Takeaways:
- Discover why traditional IAM systems are not suited to modern infrastructures.
- Learn how decentralized identity models enhance security, privacy and user autonomy.
- Understand the role of blockchain in verifiable credentials and tamper-proof identity management.
- Explore how emerging IAM protocols align with zero trust principles. Gain actionable insights to future-proof your organization’s identity strategy.

Modern IAM: Decentralized Solutions for Evolving Threats

Organizations excel at documenting incidents but fail catastrophically at remembering them. Between audits, hard-won lessons evaporate, cultural knowledge resets to zero and enterprises find themselves vulnerable to the same predictable risks that should have been eliminated months ago.

This session reframes security culture as a living control system where organizational memory becomes your strongest defense. Discover how to transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops, quantify learning as risk reduction and embed institutional knowledge into governance frameworks that create compounding resilience rather than cyclical vulnerability.

Join Oksana Denesiuk, Senior Product Manager at Kaiser Permanente and ISSA Advisory Board Member, to explore proven methodologies for building unbreakable organizational memory.

Key Takeaways: 
- Track how lessons learned translate into behavioral change and improved security posture. 
- Build lasting organizational memory through structured post-incident processes that strengthen defenses over time.
- Measure how well your organization learns from incidents and translate that into reduced security risks.
- Transform retrospectives into measurable feedback loops that prevent incident recurrence. 
- Embed organizational knowledge into leadership and accountability models for sustained cultural transformation.

Transform Security Culture into Measurable Organizational Memory

As organizations embrace AI systems and hybrid workforces, traditional security cultures focused only on human awareness can no longer address today’s complex risks. AI operates at machine speed, influencing decisions and actions in ways that demand a more integrated approach to managing security. Without a culture that accounts for both human and AI behaviors, organizations risk blind spots that could undermine trust, governance, and resilience.

Security culture needs to become a shared model where leadership, governance and incentives guide both human decisions and the design, training and accountability of AI systems. By viewing AI actions as part of the risk landscape and aligning human and machine behaviors with business goals, security leaders can transform culture into a measurable control and a strategic advantage in an AI-driven world.

Join Sandra Estok, CEO & Founder of Way2Protect, to uncover practical strategies for managing security behaviors, bridging human and AI risks, and effectively communicating with executives and boards.

Key Takeaways
- Understand how security culture must evolve to address both human and AI-driven behaviors.
- Learn to treat AI actions as part of the organization’s risk surface.
- Explore practical methods to measure security behaviors in hybrid work environments.
- Discover how leadership decisions shape human conduct and AI system outcomes.
- Gain techniques to communicate human and AI risks to boards in clear business terms.

Evolving Security Culture: Aligning Human and AI Risks for Business Resilience

Since technology cannot keep us completely protected, organizations must embrace a culture of cybersecurity to build true resilience. This cultural transformation is essential to safeguard against risks and ensure readiness to respond effectively when incidents occur.

This session explores how leading organizations are embedding cybersecurity into their values, attitudes, and practices. By fostering a culture of resilience, businesses can strengthen their ability to anticipate, adapt to, and recover from cyber threats. Learn why every manager has a pivotal role in shaping this culture and how to implement strategies that drive lasting change.

Join Dr. Keri Pearlson, Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management, to explore actionable steps for building a culture of cybersecurity that protects your organization and empowers your workforce.

Takeaways:
- Understand cyber resilience thinking and how it differs from traditional protection strategies.
- Discover key mechanisms for fostering an effective cybersecurity culture.
- Gain actionable insights for managers to enhance resilience at work and home.
- Learn from real-world examples of organizations successfully embedding cybersecurity into their culture.

Building Cyber Resilience Through Culture in 2026

Mergers and acquisitions create exponential cyber risk exposure, yet many organizations lack quantified risk frameworks to guide critical business decisions. As cyber threats evolve and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, executives need concrete data to balance growth opportunities against security investments.

Traditional risk assessments fail during rapid organizational change. This session reveals proven methodologies for translating cyber vulnerabilities into financial impact metrics that drive boardroom decisions. Learn to build communication frameworks that align security investments with business objectives while maintaining stakeholder confidence throughout complex organizational transitions.

Join Vincent Amanyi, Founder of Boleaum Inc, to explore actionable strategies for enterprise cyber risk quantification and communication.

Key Takeaways: 
- Develop risk appetite frameworks that identify, prioritize, and absorb organizational risks with minimal business disruption. 
- Master cyber risk quantification techniques that assign tangible dollar values to security threats across all business levels.
- Build structured communication models to effectively convey cyber risk criticality to diverse stakeholder groups. 
- Implement scalable cybersecurity benchmarking practices for growing organizations. 
- Create boardroom-ready risk reports that support strategic decision-making during M&A activities.

Quantify Cyber Risk Impact for Strategic M&A Growth

Breaches have become a daily reality. Dark web activities and emerging threat vectors outpace traditional defenses, creating blind spots that adversaries readily exploit. Without early warning systems, businesses remain vulnerable to sophisticated attacks that could have been prevented.

Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) transforms raw intelligence into actionable insights that enable proactive defense strategies. This session demonstrates how to operationalize intelligence, map adversary tactics to business risks, and implement early warning systems that prevent breaches before they occur. Learn to distinguish signal from noise and convert threat intelligence into measurable risk reduction metrics that resonate with executive leadership.

Leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence for Proactive Risk Mitigation

Open-source software drives enterprise innovation, but unmanaged vulnerabilities create operational risks and regulatory exposure. As cyber threats evolve and compliance frameworks tighten, executives face mounting pressure to balance innovation speed with robust security governance.

Traditional approaches to OSS security often create friction between development teams and security requirements, leading to shadow IT practices and increased exposure. This session presents proven frameworks for integrating security into OSS workflows while maintaining developer productivity and meeting emerging regulatory demands like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Join Yesenia Yser, Security Engineer and Open-Source Advocate, to explore enterprise-grade strategies for OSS risk management.



Key Takeaways: 

Implement governance frameworks that protect OSS dependencies without slowing development
Create shared accountability between security, procurement, and engineering teams
Apply SLSA, SBOM, and OpenSSF standards to build enterprise-wide security trust
Balance regulatory requirements with collaborative open source community practices 
Turn OSS security management into a strategic business differentiator

Securing Open-Source Dependencies at Enterprise Scale

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

Data security has entered a new era, one defined by AI-powered threats, expanding cloud ecosystems, and evolving global privacy regulations. 

This session presented by TD Bank's Pankul Chitrav explores the critical shifts reshaping how organisations must protect sensitive information in a boundaryless digital world. We will break down the top risks, the essential capabilities of modern security architectures, and the must-have tools for protecting data across endpoints, cloud platforms, and AI workflows. From zero trust to automated posture management and advanced data discovery, you’ll learn what’s required to stay ahead of adversaries and maintain compliance. Whether you’re modernising your security program or building one from the ground up, this talk equips you with the insights needed to create a future-ready data protection strategy for 2025 and beyond.

Future-Ready Data Protection: Securing Modern Data Ecosystems in an AI-Driven World

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

At present, Insider threat issues are a significant risk to organizations. In this talk, I will cover the  methods of educating employees on mitigating risks from insider threats. 

Key Take-Away:  
• Insider Threat and Types? 
• Indicators of Insider Threats 
• Mitigation Techniques to prevent Insider Threats

A Discussion on Mitigating Risk from Insider Threats

According to Forrester, 25% of breaches resulted from internal incidents, and almost half of those were categorized as malicious. Due to current events, insider threats have evolved, and organizations have more to consider than data leaving the organizations and privileged users. 
Employee stressors, disengagement, and potential attrition pose a serious risk and are challenging for organizations to detect and mitigate.
But even considering the risks, an average of only 31% of internal users are currently covered by behavior analytics monitoring solutions, according to the most recent ThoughtLab "Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World" survey.

This session will show how Behavior Analytics can be incorporated into an Insider Threat program to reduce the number of alerts and make investigations faster and easier. From simple enrichment of DLP-generated alerts to a new set of use cases to identify risky insider behavior, advanced analytics can expand the efficiency of insider threat programs and boost risk mitigation strategies.

Learn how behavior analytics solutions can:
- Provide context to alerts generated by DLP solutions
- Identify anomalies related to insider threat activity
- Accelerate and simplify investigations

Help! My Insider Threat Program Is Drowning In Alerts!

There are many facets to minimising the risk companies face from insider threats. In this presentation, In this talk, cyber security lead Martin Nash will present a self-styled, strategic risk-based approach to managing the insider threat. This approach is easy to break down, easy to understand and, ultimately, easy to implement. 

Attendees will come away with the strategic basis for a modular approach to support ongoing and effective risk-based management of the insider threat.

Strategic Approach to Managing the Insider Threat

The social, economic and technological shifts of the past two years prompted cyber attackers to refine their methods, becoming more sophisticated and aggressive. This resulted in the business community suffering a series of high-profile attacks with far-reaching repercussions. Threat actors continue to exploit vulnerabilities across endpoints and cloud environments, and are ramping up use of stolen identities and credentials to bypass legacy defenses.

This panel of security experts will discuss the top threats of the moment and look toward what to expect in the next 12 months. They'll provide best practices and recommendations for security measures that can offer the best level of defense.

Join us to learn about:
--The most prevalent attacks today
--Emerging attacks that will threaten your business tomorrow
--How to take a proactive approach to threat detection
--How to prepare for continued global disruption

Moderated by:
Tamara Prazak, Senior Director | Appgate

Panelists:
Pete Wood, Partner | Naturally Cyber LLP
Seema Sewell, Assistant CISO | Office of Enterprise Technology, Maricopa County
Greg Kraft, Director- EMEA | OBS Global
Ian Goodhart, Director of Security Operations | Maryland Department of Information Technology (DoIT)

The Cyber Threat Landscape: Get Ready for 2023

Digital Business is here to flourish. It is hard to find an industry or sector in the economy that is not disrupted by software. Right now, businesses are having to deal with a modern, frictionless experience across all channels and the right level of security for their customers and themselves.

Okta is identified as a leader in access management by analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and others. Their success is due to a unique methodology developed over time that can deliver this frictionless experience while still achieving security at scale.

In this session, you will learn:
- How to achieve this frictionless experience without compromising on security and other business processes and objectives;
- How to simplify customer acquisition and access while protecting their sensitive data at the same time with the right customer identity and access management. You can stop identity-driven attacks and engage with users across all channels.
- How organisations like JetBlue & Australian Red Cross use identity to create secure, seamless, digital experiences.

Building Trusted Digital Experiences with Customer Identity

In this session, we will detail how to re-calibrate your CISO strategy to gain traction in your enterprise domain and change the executive perception to accelerate business.  

Key Takeaways:
• Establish the fundamentals.
• Enable a simple message.
• Harden your ecosystem.

Re-calibrate Your CISO Strategy

Cybersecurity has not only become a regular boardroom topic, but may soon be a requirement. If proposed SEC legislation takes hold, all publicly traded companies must have a process in place to disclose cybersecurity incidents and more importantly, must actively identify and manage cybersecurity risks with board of directors’ oversight.  This legislation will likely have a trickle-down effect on many private companies as well. 

While some organizations have already undergone this journey, we expect that numerous companies are late to the party and haven’t begun to determine what this change means for them. This session will help you develop a game plan to right-size security for your organization by addressing the following key issues:

• Who should fill this role?
• Where to start?
• The art of incident response and reporting.
• What are some of the functionalities the SEC will be looking to include:
      o Controls to prevent unauthorized access
      o Monitoring
      o Measures to detect, mitigate, and remediate cybersecurity threats
      o Third-party risk management
• Coordination with legal counsel and financial advisors.

Coming Soon -- CISO Observability in the Boardroom

Attackers are trying everything they can to break into your environment.  As a result, CISOs need to ensure that they are protecting as much of that environment as possible using people, process, intelligence, and tools and the focus should be in that order.  In this discussion, we’ll look these elements and how CISOs can layer them in order to provide the most effective cyber security program.

Implementing a Multi-Layered Security Program to Protect & Defend Your Business

At present, Cyberattacks are not limited to any particular industry. Academia and industries must work  together to determine solutions to protect the organization from Cyberattacks. This talk will cover the  hacks of Academia and Industry partnerships to address Cyberattacks and Cybersecurity skill gaps. 

Key Take-Away:  
• Collaboration Strategies between Academia and Industry to address Cyberattacks  • Mitigation Strategies to address Cybersecurity skill gaps  
• Strategies of community involvement to mitigate cyber attacks

A Partnership Initiative of Industry and Academia

Following a turbulent two years, former-CISO and Distinguished Analyst at the ISF Paul Watts, is considering key recommendations for CISOs to improve or maintain their (and their team's) prominence and relevance to their stakeholders.

In this session, Paul reflects on where CISOs find themselves today, and what changes they should be looking at to ensure their role continues to add value to an increasingly technically competent digital enterprise.

Paul Watts is a Distinguished Analyst of the ISF and joined in August 2021.  He has worked in cyber security for over sixteen years as a security executive and CISO in several industry sectors including financial services, retail, critical national infrastructure, food and beverage, data analytics and market research. A certified information security professional holding credentials from both ISC² and ISACA, he has previously spoken and written on many security leadership topics including engaging with the board, building and sustaining robust enterprise security cultures, sustaining high-performing security teams and managing mental well-being in the cyber security industry. Paul is also a Chartered IT Professional and a  member of the British Computer Society.

The Future CISO: Securing the digital organisation of the future

At present, small businesses face greater impact from cyber attacks than larger businesses. There are many reasons for this which include insufficient implementation of cyber security programs, lack of practicing security culture, staff shortages and ineffective mitigation policies. 

Tune into this talk to learn best practices around threat detection and mitigation approaches specifically for small businesses and come away with a better understanding of:
- Best threat detection approaches for small businesses;
- Mitigation strategies to address cyber attacks;
- Resources for small businesses to create, implement and evaluate their threat and mitigation strategies.

Threat Detection and Mitigation Strategies for Small Businesses

Malwarebytes' 2022 Threat Review reported 77% more malicious software detected in 2021 than in 2020. Cyberattacks are vicious, causing millions of dollars in losses as organizations scramble to recover stolen data, identities, and reputation. As malicious threats continue to breach network and endpoint defenses, organizations need to prioritize their endpoint detection and response strategy. 

In Threat Intelligence Today: Securing Endpoints Against Malware, Malwarebytes Security Evangelist Adam Kujawa will delve deep into how organizations can secure their hybrid and remote environments against the ongoing rise in malware. Tune in to learn more about real-world protection and incident response techniques as well as:

- The latest attack trends and prevention strategies as well as tool kits available to help organizations balance prevention and resilience for real-time continuous cyber protection
- How Malwarebytes and other third-party resources can keep organizations secure while saving them time, money, and resources 
- Drawbacks and benefits of using Security Operations Centers to investigate security breaches real-time

Threat Intelligence Today: Securing Endpoints Against Malware

Endpoint Security can either be the first or the last line of defense. From the beginning, it has primarily been accomplished by adding some type of shielding such as a simple anti-virus program but has since evolved into EDR (endpoint detection and response) and XDR (eXtended detection and response). Ensuring the endpoint is hardened against threats is the most effective mechanism to secure endpoints as the vast majority of breaches are caused by known vulnerabilities that exploit unpatched devices.   

This presentation will provide information on how to create peace of mind regarding all your endpoints by increasing overall vulnerability and patch management.

Join this discussion to learn:
- Why EDR, XDR, and MDR are not enough for complete endpoint security management;
- Understand the overall damage caused by unpatched vulnerabilities;
- How to increase overall visibility into the status and behaviors of endpoints and the value this provides to the organization;
- Explore how the endpoint security solutions must include all types of endpoints including mobile and virtual;
- Ensure all endpoints are up-to-date with patches, how to automate the process, and what to do when they are not;
- Encourage collaboration between IT and security teams in regards to endpoint security management.

The Endpoint Security Alphabet Stew Must Include VM and PM

As the methods and practices used to attack digital assets become more refined, the security tools to combat the threats must evolve, shifting from reactive to proactive methods. This change means security teams must learn about and assess a slew of acronyms, including endpoint detection and response (EDR), network detection and response (NDR), managed detection and response (MDR) and extended detection. and response (XDR). They also must consider new methods for addressing and preventing alert fatigue, such as using AI or cloud-based services.

In this panel, experts discuss the types of endpoint detection and response available and how to tease out which is best for your organization.

Join us to learn:
--Why EDR alone is not enough
--How to inventory your endpoints and their protection needs
--How to evaluate MDR options including MEDR, MNDR and MXDR
--The difference between hybrid XDR and native XDR
--Operational benefits of XDR
--How SIEM and SOAR compare with XDR

Unpacking Endpoint Detection and Response

What you’ll learn:
Outlining the various solutions in the cybersecurity market
Today’s top security challenges
The differences between Product (XDR) and Service (MDR)
How to select the right solution for your organization
An overview of Secureworks ManagedXDR
Answers to questions that our speakers received during the live webinar

EDR. XDR. MDR. If you’re looking at the cybersecurity market today, there are a lot of acronyms floating around – leading to a lot of confusion.

How do you filter through the alphabet soup and find the solution that solves your unique security challenges? Please join Secureworks® and Frost & Sullivan for a discussion that will clear the confusion in the market and help CISOs understand what to consider in discovering the right solution based on their organization’s needs.

EDR, XDR, MDR: Filtering Out the Alphabet Soup of Cybersecurity

High-impact cyber attacks frequently make news headlines for all the wrong reasons and can cause significant financial, operational and reputational damage. Managing the crisis can be the difference between survival and destruction. 

As cyber threats become more sophisticated, incident response, crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery plans will be pushed to breaking point. One way of preparing the organisation for a cyber crisis is stress-testing these plans by performing cyber security exercises, which can increase awareness, empower the workforce and improve resilience.

Watch this session from ISF Senior Solutions Analyst, Daniel Norman, where he details how you can: 
- increase awareness amongst key stakeholders about the nature and scale of cyber incidents
- design realistic, impactful cyber attack simulations and playbooks
- effectively stress-test crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Preparing for a Cyber Crisis: The ISF approach

Cobalt Strike (CS) is the most widely used advanced adversary simulation and threat emulation software. It's very powerful, for both good and bad actors.

CS delivers a post-exploitation framework that was developed to emulate the greatest features of late-stage malware ecosystems and allow its users to simulate adversary actions. The adoption of Cobalt Strike by global threat actors, and the framework’s use in hundreds of genuine intrusions, ransoms, and data breaches, shows that Beacon has fought its way to the top. It currently sits on the throne as the reigning champ of all malware toolkits. If it works, it wins.

In this session, you will learn: 
• How security and threat intelligence community can proactively prevent their organisations from falling victim to the growing threat of Cobalt Strike Beacons and Team Servers.
• How to turn the tables on APT groups and malicious threat actors - become the hunter instead of the hunted.

Finding Beacons In The Dark - A Guide To Stopping Cobalt Strike Attacks

Cybersecurity megatrends -- including zero trust, XDR, a pandemic-induced increase in remote workers, and the move to public cloud -- are influencing the way organizations think about endpoint security. These megatrends add new requirements for endpoint security, while requiring new levels of integration with other core security controls. Further influencing endpoint security strategies is the massive growth and device diversity driven by both mobile and IoT device usage.

In response, IT and security teams are thinking differently about endpoint security platforms, what they must include, and how they fit into the broader security stack. ESG Principal Analyst Dave Gruber will discuss strategies and best practices for modern endpoint security to secure this growing attack surface.

Adapt Your Endpoint Security Strategy

Successfully Securing Endpoints & Mitigating Threats

Endpoint protection alone used to be good enough for companies. But now we have too many alerts, from too many systems along with “the Fog of More” making it more difficult to locate and address security threats. 

How do you cut through all these alerts to pinpoint real threats to your environment? Can MDR or XDR actually help you focus on what is important or are these just buzzwords? In this session, we will review real world examples to see how MDR helped a small security team focus their limited time available to cut through the fog and effectively address the critical alerts and incidents in their environment.

Cutting through the Fog of More: Use MDR or XDR to Find Real Threats

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Cutting through the Fog of More: Use MDR or XDR to Find Real Threats

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