Topic: Information Security

Seminar Topics

[1 CPE] You Are No Longer Forgotten: The Small Business Security Challenge

  Presented by Chris Roberts • Chief Security Strategist, Cynet

Most of the security industry is chasing “around” 31,000 larger enterprise-sized companies for their business. The list is well known and circulated and targets are on the backs of ALL the C-Suite, most of the technical folks, and the MSP/VARS that support them. The Security industry circles them like packs of hyena or vultures waiting for one of them to fall, get breached, or for a vendor to be thrown out… pouncing on the fresh kill with glee…

Meanwhile, you’re sitting there getting slaughtered by every adversary known to mankind because you ARE the forgotten, you’re too small for the multi-billion $$ cyber companies whom IF they decide to deal with you will flood you with MSA’s, SOW’s and NDA’s that would take a week’s worth of lawyer time JUST to understand, let alone realize that they’re not accountable for anything, unlikely to want to support you and in all honestly you’ll get a 1-800-YOU-AREN’T-SPECIAL number as your sole source of support.

We’re going to address the current situation, the state of play, and give you some thoughts, suggestions, ideas, AND plans. We’ll provide resources on HOW to evaluate, where to look, what to do, AND, importantly, we’ll do it because it’s what we’re doing. We live, breathe, and deal with this daily. We’ve sat in the meetings when the large cybersecurity companies state, “we’re done dealing with the SMB market” and we’ve got the battle scars from dealing with those subsequent consequences.

Chris is a renowned researcher focusing on counter threat intelligence and vulnerability research within the Information Security industry. Since the late ‘90s, Chris has been deeply involved with security R&D, consulting, and vCISO services to help protect and defend organizations against various types of attacks. As one of the well-known hackers and researchers, Chris is routinely invited to speak at industry conferences and is regularly featured on CNN, The Washington Post, WIRED, and numerous other media publications.

[1 CPE] The Evolution of Vulnerability Management

  Presented by Optiv Security & Tenable

A proactive, risk-driven Vulnerability Management approach delivers comprehensive, continuous visibility and informs technical and business decisions. Join Tenable’s Nathan Wenzler and Optiv’s Doug Drew (a respected Tenable Guardian) as they discuss real-world VM challenges and how to manage and measure your cyber risk.

[1 CPE] Zero Trust: From Theory to Reality in Five Steps

  Presented by Guardicore

Let’s be real. True to its name, there is zero trust about the term “zero trust.” It’s been used as marketecture since its inception. Cut through the fog with this presentation with practical insight and steps to take to ensure your organization makes the most out of ZTA.

[1 CPE] How Zero-Trust Enables the Future of “Work from Anywhere” Secure Access

  Presented by Cisco & Duo Security

The perimeter-focused security model of decades past is no longer adequate for securing the modern enterprise. Now, organizations must secure a mobile workforce using a mix of corporate-owned and personal devices to access cloud-based applications and services, often from outside corporate networks — and this trend only accelerated during 2020’s global shift to remote work. Fortunately, a modern access strategy built on zero-trust fundamentals can defend today’s workforce while paving the way to a passwordless future. Attend this session to learn how the zero-trust access model works, reduce your reliance on passwords and risk of password-based attacks, and how to start planning and staging your zero-trust evolution today.

[1 CPE] 2021 State of Malware

  Presented by Malwarebytes

Over the past year, the tools and tactics of cybercrime and cybersecurity adapted against a backdrop of enormous changes to our lives and businesses.

Join us to learn how cybercrime evolved in 2020 and identify ways to safeguard your organization against what’s out there.

We’ll explore:

  • Top threats for businesses and consumers
  • Emerging cybercrime trends and tactics
  • Solutions you can employ to thwart future attacks

[1 CPE] Leveraging Assessment Findings to Harden Your Security Perimeter

  Presented by Fortinet

Are you regularly evaluating your network security?

Performing assessments is a tried-and-true method for improving your security posture, but they can be a daunting task for network security staff who are often short on manpower, expertise, and/or time. Regardless, the benefits of running assessments almost always outweigh any potential drawbacks. Having a security assessment in hand will increase your security situational awareness and significantly impact your organization’s risk preparedness and mitigation.

Join us as we discuss the importance of periodically validating your existing security controls and provide learnings and best practices from our experts.

[1 CPE] The Evolution of Vulnerability Management

  Presented by Optiv Security & Tenable

A proactive, risk-driven Vulnerability Management approach delivers comprehensive, continuous visibility and informs technical and business decisions. Join Tenable’s Nathan Wenzler and Optiv’s Doug Drew (a respected Tenable Guardian) as they discuss real-world VM challenges and how to manage and measure your cyber risk.

[1 CPE] Do We Need Our Own SOC?

  Presented by VPLS

Within a company, a SOC (Security Operations Center) is the focal point of the company’s security operations and network defense, commonly responsible for real-time monitoring, incident response, and proactive prevention of incidences. Many organizations may feel they are already doing these activities without a SOC. But SOCs vary in maturity levels and capabilities—so does your company really need one?

In this presentation, John Headley, Senior Security Engineer at VPLS, reviews the many components of a SOC to ultimately help you answer the question: “do we need our own SOC?” Join this presentation to learn:

  • The importance of cybersecurity operations within an organization, including how a typical cybersecurity operations team is organized into a SOC
  • What capabilities a SOC can provide to an organization
  • What tools the SOC uses
  • How to quantitatively self-assess if your organization should build a SOC or outsource this responsibility to a managed security services provider

[1 CPE] Developing a Vision and Strategy for Security Centric IAM Programs

  Presented by Business Partner Solutions

Learn how to defend new age data breaches through Identity Centric Security. 80% of cyber incidents stem from stolen credentials & privileged accounts. By including Identity Centric Security (ICS), organizations can proactively manage their threat landscape, ensuring better threat intelligence and breach defenses.

Topics discussed will inlcude:

  • What is ICS?
  • How does ICS enable risk-based decision-making?
  • How does ICS strengthen breach defense?
  • Approach to embracing ICS

[1 CPE] Power-Boost Ransomware Incident Response with Ransomware Kill Switch

  Presented by Airgap

Despite significant investments in security each year, cybercriminals are constantly developing new attack vectors to thwart existing security controls. The growth of connected devices, IoT, and an increasingly remote workforce has widened the enterprise attack surface, enabling cybercriminals to find new ways to breach enterprise perimeter defenses.

A new paradigm shift needs to occur in security to deal with the eventual breach and lateral movement of cyber-attacks. Implementing an enterprise zero-trust security model can help to block the lateral movement of cyber attackers and isolate attacks to where they originate, helping to dramatically reduce the enterprise-wide impact of a cyber-attack. Enterprises need to migrate to a Zero-Trust architecture, helping to gain back control and limit the damage done by cyber-attacks that occur each year. In this session, Ritesh Agrawal, CEO and Co-founder of Airgap Networks, will lead a detailed discussion on how to:

  • Maintain a continuous accurate inventory of enterprise assets.
  • Obtain true visibility and insight on how all devices communicate.
  • Generate zero false-positive alerts based on anomalous behavior.
  • Deploy scalable nano-segmentation of devices to stop lateral movement inside your network via devices (Ransomware Kill-Switch).
  • Implement Single-Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA) for legacy/private applications.
  • Achieve modern IAM/IDM authentication with Zero-Trust Isolation.

Through this discussion, Ritesh will build on these topics and emphasize how zero-trust principles can empower enterprises and achieve better control and response to emerging cyber-threats. Zero-Trust is not hype. Join us to find out more!