With the dynamic and rapid pace of technology innovations, cloud migrations, product releases, and development cycles, CISOs and their teams need to find ways to keep pace with malicious adversaries. Security teams have had to make tradeoffs and invest in less-than-ideal self-service scanning solutions to get broad attack surface coverage. These solutions fall short, producing noisy results, false positives, lack of actionable insights.

In this panel, moderated by Rob Cross, Sales Director at Synack, will discuss the use of on-demand security testing and analytics to:

• Get actionable security data in real time at a continuous cadence
• Insight into a comprehensive security strategy that minimizes risk
• Understand how testing results and analytics can provide visibility to inform

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Threat actors are masquerading as business tools and communication platforms to slip past perimeter controls that are programmed to block known threats. In our recently released Annual State of Phishing Report, we discuss how 2020 saw the emergence of new threat actors, the appearance of some old ones, and changes in malware and phishing attacks.

Join Cofense CTO & Co-Founder, Aaron Higbee as he shares the best and worst of 2020, what we learned about phishing, phishing attacks, threat actors, malware, and more.

Attend this Keynote to Learn:

• How attackers are diversifying the malware used in phishing campaigns.
• How over 50% of phish reported to the Cofense PDC by end users are credential phish
• How the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the phishing landscape.
• Why you can’t stop human attackers without human reporting and analysis

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Legacy software supply chain “exploits”, such as Struts incident at Equifax, prey on publicly disclosed open source vulnerabilities that are left unpatched in the wild. Conversely, next-generation software supply chain “attacks” are far more sinister because bad actors are no longer waiting for public vulnerability disclosures. Instead, they are actively injecting malicious code into open source projects that feed the global supply chain.

Join this session ith Ax Sharma, Senior Security Researcher, Sonatype to:

• Understand software supply chain attacks and their impact on the open-source ecosystem
• Deep dive into prominent real-world examples of dependency confusion, typosquatting and brandjacking malware
• Learn how your organization can proactively protect itself against software supply chain attacks

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As cyber-attacks increase in complexity, frequency, and velocity, in our experience, many enterprise organizations are reliant on outdated IT governance. The organizational paradigm is limited by slow-moving bureaucracy and scarce resources. This situation is often the result of a limited understanding of the risks on the part of decision-makers, like board executives who rely on outdated corporate governance frameworks that were developed in response to accounting scandals – e.g., WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, etc. – not cyber risks.

Enterprise executives continue to propagate a compliance check-box mindset that values minimal security control investment to meet audit standards. The focus on audit/compliance misses the costs that may extend beyond regulatory penalties into financial losses that are not always small enough to recover from without significant repercussions.

In this session, we draw from consulting experience, candid conversations with security leaders, and empirical research to define the current issues plaguing enterprise cyber governance, while offering specific remedies for organizational leaders striving for an effective governance model that moves beyond audit compliance to iterative and measurable risk reduction.

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Working with outsourced security partners can sometimes feel like paying for an expensive black box. What are they really achieving for you and how do they do it? Understanding how, or perhaps even if, your security partner contributes to the ROI on your overall security plan is paramount and can start to reveal where improvements could be made. In this panel discussion, we will hear from peers working within information security how they tackle this challenge and what a good outsourced security partner looks like to them.

Key takeaway bullets:

• An understanding of how your peers see value in their service providers
• A range of options in methodology for calculating security ROI
• An understanding of what good looks like in an outsourced security partner

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Human-operated attacks, including nation-state espionage and targeted ransomware, are on the rise against large enterprises in every industry. These are highly-targeted strains designed to evade security controls, reach critical assets and either steal information or surgically extort large sums of money. Despite significant investments, It’s still difficult for any given enterprise to be certain that attackers can’t bypass their security tools, move inside the environment and manipulate or encrypt data. During this presentation, we will examine how to stop sophisticated attackers by choking off their ability to move laterally and encrypt thousands of devices at scale.

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