Catching and Cleaning Phish (for O365)

Attackers keep getting cleverer with their phishing attacks and if you’re a high value target or a large enterprise you’re probably also getting many targeted attempts every day. This session will cover the best practices for O365 for detecting, removing and investigating phishing attempts against an O365 tenant.

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Data Governance for Risk Reduction and Value Creation

In this session, we will explore how organizations can adopt a single data governance framework to discover and protect sensitive data while mitigating cyber risks, reducing storage costs and addressing increasing privacy regulations.

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Your Tools are Protecting the Network but What is Protecting the Tools?

With the increased focus on cybersecurity over the past several years, organizations are proactively adopting security practices and deploying security solutions to harden their networks. This is in the hopes of not being the next victim of a security breach. The emphasis on securing the network perimeter has driven organizations to deploy multiple inline security […]

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Modern MDR and Machine-Accelerated Human Response

The cybersecurity market is teeming with new tools and technologies, each promising to detect and respond to threats better than the rest. But if your business is like most, you’re probably struggling with a shortage of security-focused manpower and expertise to manage those tools with skill, speed, and precision. The reality is that effective security […]

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Phishing Defense: The Art of Human Intuitive Repulsion

As human beings we often sense when things aren’t quite right. The same is true as it applies to cybersecurity. This session examines why human intuition is a key part of any organization’s phishing defense. Learn about the types of phishing attacks seen in the wild, how attackers evolve their tactics to avoid perimeter controls, […]

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Chaos, order and the road forward – perspectives on evolving cybersecurity

Never before has the creation and preservation of value depended so much on effective cyber security, nor has the means to “getting security right” been so complex. Many aspects of traditional security management are urgently being reconsidered as security teams seek to stay aligned with the characteristics of the modern enterprise and ahead of the […]

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The Value of Threat Intelligence

This presentation is a non-technical look at the benefits of threat intelligence and the challenges that organizations face when attempting to utilize and operationalize threat intelligence within their infrastructure. Existing resources (human and infrastructure), security tools, the difference between threat data sources and cybersecurity program maturity are just a few of the areas we will […]

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Code Signing: What You Don’t Secure Can Hurt You

When you sign a piece of code, you make a statement that it comes from your trusted brand and that you stand behind it. But what happens when that trust is broken? Recent attacks underscore the importance of managing reputational risk. As attackers become increasingly skilled in the art of signing and spreading malware, technologists […]

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ARUBA + ZSCALER = Better Together Network Transformation

Risk is a balance between security and usability, when security is too restrictive users naturally find ways around it. As organizations seek to improve the user experience and while maintaining the required level of security, questions of risk arise. How do we deploy Cloud solutions with direct to Internet connectivity and still maintain visibility over […]

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Threats and Trends of 2019

Amidst the ever-evolving threat landscape, 2018 was a particularly nasty year that saw an increased threat of cryptojacking to the ever-expanding reach of emotet and all of its variants. In 2019 these threats – and others – have expanded their reach and shifted away from SMBs towards enterprise businesses. Join me for a dive into […]

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Advanced security automation made simple

Security is often misunderstood and addressed in the last stages of a build. Operationally, it’s ignored until there is an emergency. In this talk, we review a few advanced security processes and discuss how to easily automate them using common tools in the Cloud. This approach will help you and your team increase the security […]

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Introduction to Advanced Persistent Threats

This presentation is a non-technical, introductory-level presentation of current APT threats (from a North American perspective). The focus of this presentation will be the geo-political environment that motivates APT activity from one nation-state to another. We will cover a selection of nation-state activities, focusing on the most prevalent and prolific. We will additionally cover a small selection of […]

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Behavior Analytics and Model Driven Security

Imagine using a risk score to determine whether to grant a user access to an application, a system, a device. Wouldn’t it be a huge time-saver if you could auto-approve low risk access requests instead of manually granting such requests? On the flip side, wouldn’t it be great to automatically ensure that privileged access requests […]

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The Human Firewall is on Fire – What Do You Do When the Smoke Clears?

Many enterprises are focused on prevention and are too busy with day-to-day firefights to look beyond the flames and think about how to recover. Beyond preventing attacks, organizations need to focus on detection and response. It’s no longer a matter of if you’re going to be attacked, but when. Join this session to: Learn the […]

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Cybersecurity Evolution/Cost Reduction Paradox

The shift from legacy data collection and storage models to cloud has resulted in new paradigms in data management. Add to this more sophisticated and motivated adversaries, along with innovation in the manner in which they attack, and it yields a perfect storm of a complex attack surface, combined with multi-phased and multi-vector attacks. Today’s […]

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Standing Up to Cryptojacking – Best Practices for Fighting Back

Cryptojacking has recently erupted onto the cybercrime scene, thanks to the surge in value in 2017 of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Monero, and Ethereum. Crooks are aggressively targeting laptops, desktops, servers, and even mobile devices. From a single device to entire networks, they infect as many devices as they can to mine for cryptocurrency on, […]

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The Real Deal About AI

Artificial Intelligence(AI) is impacting our world in previously unimaginable ways. But how does it really work? If you are looking for the real deal about this industry buzzword, this is the talk for you. We will cover the history of this incredibly innovative technology, what it is and what it is not, the steps required […]

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Encryption is More than a Button

There is no one Golden Rule when it comes to email encryption. Every enterprise is unique. It’s vital to ensure email encryption is tailored for and tightly integrated to your Cybersecurity strategy. Join Echoworx VP of Operations, Alex Loo, to understand: Key components of an email encryption strategy. Benefits of leveraging encryption in the cloud. […]

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Case Studies in Defending Your Digital Enterprise

As more and more organizations undertake digital transformation they become increasingly dependent on their online presence. This exposes their business to cyber-attacks that target the growing number of vulnerabilities in web services software stacks, which require the organizations to evolve their current cyber defense approach and stretch their resources. Navigating digital transformation securely can feel […]

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On the Eve of Quantum Computing: The Definitive Need for Crypto Agility

On the eve of quantum computing, the definitive need for crypto-agility is greater than ever. The ability to locate, manage, and securely update digital certificates on a network or on a device seems like a simple task, yet with the advent of new Enterprise use cases and flourishing IoT device introductions, management at massive scale […]

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Crowd Sourced Security – Applying the Wisdom of the Crowd to Cyber Defences

Taking advantage of user provided intelligence improves your organization’s ability to recognize, report and respond to active phishing threats and keeps you ‘Left of Breach’ on the cyber kill chain. Through development of anti-phishing program best practices, the use of active threat intelligence and trend analysis, this presentation will show you how to improve your […]

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