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Final Wrap Up – Top Three Take Aways
I’m actually posting this from home. I was too tired to finish this in SF. Overall, I was very happy with the conference and the information it provided. It is hard to identify my top three takeaways for this conference … Continue reading
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How to Transform Developers into Security People
Key Takeaway: Need to take these ideas and look at how we can get security training for our developers. *GREAT SESSION!!! Software is everywhere and in everything. Developers become crucial and the first line of defense to insure it is … Continue reading
The Coming Disruption
Key Takeaway: Interesting prospect. Application developer ecosystems. If we built all the infrastructure with APIs and preset data gathering and other basics, then we can code to those APIs. Rather than having to go and gather data, it would be more, … Continue reading
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The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques
Key takeaways: Two of top seven dangers are related to developers and using unpatched software and unprotected XML/JSON components. Need to look at how vulnerable we are. *** http://www.sans.org. Ransomware – explosion of this. crypto ransomware. top fears. prevents access … Continue reading
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Identity Squatting: Laws, Tools and Methods for Security Professionals
Key Takeaway: Interesting session on identifying who our users are. Not much new, but interesting topic. *** When to recognize when someone is posing as someone else because they are a bad guy/black hat, or when they have legitimately changed … Continue reading
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Help Wanted: Security Heroes and Heroines Only Need Apply, Malcolm Harkins
Key Takeaway: Leadership is helping the business adopt consistent secure practices rather than responding to each incident. *** Business risk security is understanding risk, and doing everything you can do to prevent the risk, or correct it later. The perfect storm of … Continue reading
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Keynote: Sweating the Small Stuff on a Global Scale,
Key Takeaway: Focused on the threats on a global level, and new areas of threats that are focused in our homes, and not in our corporations and businesses. *** Protection. the home. Mirai botnet uses items from home to attack … Continue reading
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Keynote – Protecting and Defending against Cyberthreats in Uncertain Times, Brad Smith
Key Takeaway: Private Sector and Governments must work together to fight cyber threats from Nation States. *** Growing problem in need of new solutions. Understanding the problem and pursuing the solutions. One thing that has made the situation more challenging. … Continue reading
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Keynote – Planning for Chaos, Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan
Key Take Away: Collaborate with Business Leaders to consolidate, plan, and prepare. *** Draw connections between security details and business objectives. Business driven security leaders are needed in a time where chaos uproots expectations. One example of chaos: cyber attack … Continue reading
RSA Conference
John Lithgow Pretty cool opening for the keynote. They had John Lithgow the guy from Third Rock from the sun. He talked about the importance of security technicians. He then described what the world would be like without security professionals. … Continue reading
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Dan at a Conference 