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The Unconscious Bias: How is it Holding You and Your Team Back?

  Presented by  Oklahoma Women In Technology

Workplace diversity is proven to increase productivity and company profit. However, studies show that our unconscious bias prevents from achieving diverse teams and more importantly, inclusive teams.

There’s been plenty of talk about workplace diversity in recent years, but less evidence of progress, particularly when you examine leadership ranks. It requires changing the mindsets of large groups of people, some of whom may not realize anything’s wrong with the status quo. Before you can begin improving equality at work, however, you need to become aware of and confront the unconscious bias at your company. We all have bias. If we don’t acknowledge it, we can’t do anything about it.

Join our panel discussion as we explore how unconscious is holding us back in work and preventing us from obtaining the high achieving teams we desire.

  • Brandy Semore • Co-Founder and Advisory Board Director – OK Women in Technology
  • Mike Wood • Vice President& Information Security Officer, INTEGRIS Health
  • Dr. W. Christopher Hudson • Vice President, Hudson & Associates Consulting
  • Gene Hopper • Founder & Partner, Mettise Group

Regulations, Lawsuits and Employment in the Global Online Environment

  Presented by Carrie L. Palmer, Esq. •Managing Member, Resolution Legal Group

Lawmakers, corporations and employees battle to balance individual interests in online personas with the inherent security need to protect private personal and corporate data being used for targeted marketing in unparalleled ways. We will traverse the increasing body of enacted and pending privacy and security legislation, protecting corporate and client data from inside (employee) threats and consider the opportunity for unprecedented litigation arising from this new collection of regulations.

Adapting to Fight Back: How Cyber AI Neutralizes Never-Before-Seen Threats

  Presented by Darktrace

In a world that is increasingly digital, cyber-attack has become the most significant risk confronting today’s businesses, smart cities, and critical infrastructure. Online crime cost the world more than half a trillion dollars last year, while recent attacks have managed to influence the U.S. presidential election and disrupt the Ukrainian power supply. This troubling state of affairs is the product of several fundamental weaknesses with the traditional approach to cyber defense, which relies on predefining what threats look like at a time when criminals launch never-before-seen attacks daily. Moreover, these attacks increasingly strike at machine-speed, preventing security professionals from responding before their damage is done.

Active Directory Security: Early Stage Attack Activities to Watch For

  Presented by STEALTHbits Technologies

Attackers have demonstrated a consistent and ongoing ability to obtain access to workstations inside the network boundary through phishing and other web and email attacks. From here, attackers set their sights on gaining control of Active Directory as a means to an end; compromising Active Directory is an easy way to gain access to all critical corporate data and resources. Darin will discuss two early stage attack activities: LDAP reconnaissance and Password Spraying—that allow attackers to move laterally inside your AD environment. Detection strategies and mitigation steps will also be explained.

Digital Extortion & Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2019

  Presented by Trend Micro

Digital extortion has increasingly become cybercriminals’ first and foremost money-making modus operandi. It’s mostly due to ransomware —cybercriminals’ currently most popular weapon of choice, helping them in extorting cash from users all over the world and in hitting big businesses and organizations. This session provides insight from Trend Micro Research’s 2019 Security Predictions on the current threat landscape.