Tag Archives: Security

The untold truth of social engineering

Milad Aslaner (Scariest session I’ve attended in a long time) What is the background of social engineering?  Con mans.  Today, you just need a computer and you can be a con man.  Social engineering is basically being a con man. … Continue reading

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Surviving identity management in a hybrid world

azure ad connect First, if you are using Dir sync, it is almost too late to migrate.  Need to do that SOON! Azure AD connect.  Manages accounts and identities for the cloud.  Several options: Verified domains.  If you have a … Continue reading

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Provisioning to O365 cloud

So, I just spoke with a guy name Romero at the MS Tech Expo.  He works  EMS Identity space.  I described for him our current environment, and asked him about the best way to provision identities to the O365 cloud. … Continue reading

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Create a modern workplace with office 365

Two main concepts.  Deliver experience to delight end users and provide them on secure platforms. Modern workplace  Disruptive techs is forcing changes in the WP.  Millennial will make up 50% of workforce in 2020.  They demand new environments.  More dynamic, … 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

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Cloud Collaboration, Content and Security

Bill Pray Mitigation Is Your Best Bet How can we mitigate the risk of moving collaboration and content to the public cloud?  Cloud Collaboration: dropbox problem, gmail problem, facebook collaboration, youtube instruction. Lots of social or cloud based public tools. … Continue reading

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How Cloud Services Enable You to Easily Architect Your Digital Enterprise

Brian Apley Enterprise Apps – backbone of our businesses.  Must be Fast, Reliable and Secure. Over the past 20 years, in the beginning, security was easy.  Securing one datacenter.  Needed to secure connections between vendors/partners and our local datacenters.  Today, … Continue reading

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Ping Identity: Identity Defined Security

Patrick Harding Started talking about the golden years of leveraged AuthN.  Basically described what we have implemented at Vanderbilt. but what that doesn’t do well: Wasn’t designed for cloud, SaaS, BYOD.  Nor was it ready to scale. OAuth 2.0 – … Continue reading

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Mobile Malware EVERYWHERE! Really?

Patrick Hevesi ~2% of mobile devices may be infected in the US.  Negligible compared to other security issues and problems. Motivations: Profit is still the largest motivation for mobile malware.  Premium SMS messages charging fees.  Bank Fraud Trojans – trying … Continue reading

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Protecting Privileged Accounts:

Anne Robins This was an interesting session. She began by talking about several big security breaches that have occurred over the past few years.  Each one were results of a privileged account’s credentials being compromised.  She then went on to … Continue reading

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