Name: Secure your Company by Avoiding These Five Cyber Insurance Pitfalls
Start: 2024-01-17T23:00:00Z
End: 2024-01-17T23:01:01.000Z
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.

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

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

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

Cyber insurance is a must in today's IT threat landscape, but how do you make the right choice among the vast market of providers? This session, presented by industry thought leader Vincent Amanyi, will detail a comprehensive model of how to to better align your organization assets with the right cyber insurance mix. 

Key takeaways
- Develop strategy to perform health check across your enterprise. 
- Establish a clear cost-monitoring model across your enterprise.
- Develop a mechanism towards a targeted insurance mix for your assets.

Evaluating Options for Cyber Insurance

In an era where "cloud-first’ is often mistaken for “cloud-only,”' let’s explore a few often-neglected aspects of ransomware incident preparedness, highlighting the ironic shift in readiness from things we used to do well (or at least often) in the pre-cloud era, but that have been left behind in the present day. This presentation will focus specifically on three critically underappreciated practices that are still useful, and increasingly pivotal, for effective response to ransomware attacks.

1.) The significance of "go-to-paper" processes, you know, good old-fashioned manual business continuity (BC) procedures we used to follow when our digital world went dark. We'll explore how these archaic yet surprisingly resilient manual tactics are more than just a trip down memory lane, but necessary steps in ensuring your business keeps running even when screens don’t.

2.) Infrastructure backups. We're not just talking about your important data, but the increasingly software-defined and abstracted infrastructure components you rely on. This discussion will strip away the veil of complacency that often shrouds cloud-based systems, revealing the stark realities of shared responsibilities and the need for a more holistic approach to disaster recovery.

3.) The practicality of meeting recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) when relying on offline or internet-based backups. This involves an in-depth analysis of current practices; measuring their actual effectiveness and whether regaining access to data and systems is possible within acceptable time and data loss thresholds.

By revisiting these "old" strategies, we propose a renewed, hybrid approach to ransomware preparedness, blending traditional wisdom with modern technological capabilities. This presentation aims to equip organizations with a more holistic and resilient strategy in the face of evolving cyber threats.

Old School Lessons for Handling Ransomware in the Digital Age

Ransomware attacks have been unrelenting for nearly 20 years, threatening the viability of every business. So after all this time, why do two-thirds of organizations consider ransomware to be  one of the top three most serious threats to their organization?

In this webinar, Enterprise Strategy Group shares the results from their most recent study on ransomware preparedness, Lighting the Way to Readiness and Mitigation with Pure Storage.

Attendees will understand: 
• The proactive and reactive measures organizations use to defend against ransomware
• The state of mitigation best practices across all phases of an attack
• Priorities and plans associated with mitigating ransomware threats in the coming 12-18 months

Lighting the Way to Ransomware Readiness and Mitigation

While ransomware prevention is always the goal, what happens when it occurs anyways?  Backups or disaster recovery solutions are not enough. Companies need an actual plan on what to do, key steps to take as well as additional options for when primary solutions do not work as expected or simply fail.  

Key takeaways:
- Initial assessment.
- Team communication.
- What to expect if you do or don’t pay the ransom.
- Bringing in third party help.
- Recovery process

Viewers will also learn pivotal prevention steps such as:
- Recovery points / Clusters.
- Infrastructure safe guards.
= Documentation.

Join instructor and architect Brian Kirsch as he explores ransomware recovery plans and how they can help brace your company for impact. Because it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of how to bounce back when it does happen.

About the speaker
Brian Kirsch is an IT Architect and Instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College, focusing primarily on the virtualization and cloud environments. He has been in information technology for over 25 years and has worked with VMware products for more than 15 years. Kirsch holds multiple certifications from VMware, CommVault, AWS, Brocade, Microsoft and Dell EMC, he also sat on the VMUG Board of Directors for five years helping to guide and shape the user community. Kirsch also provides a direct line of communication from customers to the VMware product architects through the VMware Customer Council and the VMware Inner Circle.

Key Steps to Planning Recovery from Ransomware Attacks

Cloud adoption has been a puzzling trend in IT for over a decade. Even today, how to adopt the cloud as part of your business's IT strategy isn’t a straightforward, never mind adopting multiple! And how do you keep them secure? It's almost every day we hear how Ransomware has taken down the most critical part of any business...the application. No matter what cloud you use, one thing that is common is keeping applications critical to the business online. This requires a software-based disaster recovery solution designed with Ransomware Resilience and is built with multi-cloud in mind. In this session, we discuss how Zerto can help keep your VMs secure with the new encryption detection capability and how this extra layer of security enables this idea of multi-cloud mobility.

Ransomware Resilience in a Multi-Cloud World with Zerto

A typical organisation’s data has grown 42% over the last 18 months, as observed in the Rubrik Zero Labs Report (2023). With this tremendous data growth, the problem of unstructured data and its growing footprints are presenting enterprise organisations with new challenges: their legacy tools are simply unable to keep up. 

In multi-vendor environments, achieving complete data visibility becomes nearly impossible, hindering data management, monitoring, and recovery. Furthermore, there is a growing trend of cyber attackers targeting backup data. 

Learn from industry and data experts Vileen Dhutia, VP RubrikX EMEA/APAC, Rubrik, and Jack Poller, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, as they discuss:
 - Why growth spur in data accumulation means bigger ransomware risks
 - What NAS security challenges organisations can expect in 2024
 - How organisations can efficiently handle the increasing threats of ransomware attacks

Unstructured Data: One of the Greatest Gateways for Ransomware Attacks

The FBI is reporting that ransomware attacks are up 60% year over year. While this growth rate is startling on its own, the majority of attacks are not reported and many companies are not confident in their ability to recover without paying a ransom. What’s worse? 20% of companies that pay the ransom still don’t get all their data back.

Preparation is critical. Understanding the path ransomware can take across your organization, and the impact it can have, can ensure your organization is able to focus on what matters: recovery.

Watch this on-demand webinar for an expert-led walkthrough of a ransomware attack that takes you step-by-step from incursion through incident response and recovery.

Attend this virtual workshop to:
- Understand how ransomware can enter your organization, the path it takes to exploit common weaknesses, and the chaos that can ensue without preparation
- Learn why your backup environment can play a critical role in the successful recovery of data following a breach of your production environment
- Watch a demonstration of how Druva can help your organization get ahead of the ransomware threat, and ensure critical gaps are covered.

Presenters:
- Vishal Jagdale - Manager, Professional Services - Druva
- Pratap Garud - Sr. Professional Services Consultant - Druva
- WaiSau Sit - Director, Product Marketing - Druva

Experience a Virtual Ransomware Fire Drill Workshop

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, where traditional defenses are becoming less effective against sophisticated threats such as ransomware, CISOs face the challenge of transforming security from a cost center to a business enabler. Tune into hear CEO and industry thought leader Sandra Estok teach how to equip organizations with strategies to combat rising cybersecurity threats , specifically spear phishing and QR code scams & phishing.

This session will explore the latest phishing trends and how CISOs can adapt to these evolving threats. We will delve into innovative approaches that go beyond traditional security awareness, focusing on building a strong security culture and mindset where every employee is an integral part of the Cyber-Self-Defense mechanism. Key takeaways will include:
- Adapting to New Threats: Understanding the shift in phishing attacks and the necessity of evolving defenses.
- Cultural Mindset Shift in Cybersecurity: Moving from mere awareness to ingraining security as part of the organizational culture.
- Practical Cyber-Self Defense Steps: Implementing effective, actionable measures to empower employees against cyber threats.

This session is designed for CISOs, IT directors, and technical professionals aiming to equip organizations with tools and strategies to not only counteract sophisticated cyber threats but to also leverage cybersecurity as a strategic business asset fortifying defenses against the ever-changing ransomware threat landscape.

About the speaker
Sandra Estok, MBA, GIAC-GSLC, CIPM, international bestselling author, and Founder of Way2Protect®, utilizes her 25-plus years of experience in the Cybersecurity, IT, and Data Privacy industries and her nightmare story to inspire her audience to overcome their fears of the cyber world and protect what matters most against hackers, scammers and Cybermonsters®.

Outsmarting Phishers: Turning Employees Into Cyber-Self Defenders

Ransomware attacks on mission-critical data are increasing - and succeeding. SaaS data is no exception.  Understanding the key challenges of SaaS data protection -and how to overcome them- can help  minimize the impact of these attacks and protect  valuable data and assets.

In this fireside chat, we will guide you through an in-depth analysis of why the risks of SaaS data loss continue to increase, why traditional backup and disaster recovery plans must evolve with ransomware, and why organizations must consider new ways to protect their data. 

Key takeaways:
- Discover proactive strategies to solve your defense blindspots 
- Trends and best practices for fast recovery and incident response
- Real-life examples of SaaS data loss and recovery
- How to execute a containment strategy to ensure your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

SaaS: The Hole in Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Let's face it -- cyber attacks such as ransomware are becoming more common and complex. The coming twelve months will bring increasingly aggressive cybercrime activities as malicious actors continue to pivot their ransomware attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration.

The question to you is this -- are you doing everything you can to protect your organization from a ransomware outbreak?

Join this presentation from TD Bank's Leen Bongale to learn how to ensure your organization is prepared and ready to respond to any ransomware scenario.

Preventing Ransomware Attacks in the Cloud

Zero trust is a strategy that defines how to architect your computer network and systems to protect and defend your data from attacks. It operates by assuming that computers, user accounts, software, and applications can be compromised at any time and implements continuous assessment of device posture, user credentials, and application integrity before granting access. 

Zero trust is not a SKU or a single product, rather it is a more secure way to provide access to data by implementing security controls on the end point, on the network, and in the cloud to ensure only authorized users and applications can access your data. 

Remember, the goal is to protect the data and make sure that it remains confidential, maintains integrity, and is available when needed.  

Tune into this this talk from industry thought leader John Bruggeman as he reviews zero trust at a high level and discuss what solutions you can implement to take advantage of this ransomware resistant strategy. 

Key takeaways regarding solutions for 
- End point protection. 
- End user authentication.
- Network access controls.
- Cloud posture management.

Using a Zero Trust Architecture to Help Prevent Ransomware

With Ransomware attacks continuing to get media attention, this evolving attack vector is only going to grow. In this presentation, we’ll take a deep dive into the whole attack kill chain for a number of high profile ransomware groups; from their Ransomware-as-a-service models to each stage of the infection kill chain. We will analyze common Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) employed by ransomware groups and share our best practices for ransomware protection and prevention. You will also get an overview about the best technologies to protect your network, minimize the impact and build an effective response strategy.

Fortifying Cyber Defenses: A Comprehensive Approach to Ransomware Mitigation

Ransomware Preparedness: Strategies for a Secure Future

Several cyber insurers have turned the noncompliance tables on their clients with the covenants of their cyber insurance policies. Ironically, these covenants are nothing more than IT security requirements which, with some board and C-suite support and focus, can be fulfilled by the CIO and his team. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader Ralph Villanueva will draw on his IT security, compliance and cyber security insurance experiences (he is a licensed P & C insurance agent and broker, which includes cyber security insurance) to help the audience avoid these five cyber insurance pitfalls and ensure that if an insurable event occurs, their employers will receive the full benefits of their cyber insurance policy.

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