2015 Information Security Trends: What's Next?

This attempt went on to ask why the sender wouldn’t pay an “invoice” attached to the email. Our IT staff later confirmed this attachment carried a ransomware payload. Like the confusing influx of different Oreo flavors in recent years (cotton candy Oreos, really?), the variety of phishing email attempts has blossomed. The “shock and awe” method described above is not a new tactic, though the use of vulgarity seems to be a relatively new variation. Fake shipping confirmations. Tax-related W-2 requests. Emails requesting password resets for social media accounts, online banking, you name it. These are just a few ways scammers use social engineering to bypass technological safeguards and compromise sensitive data.

Most cybersecurity protections are based on looking for threats. The problem is, malware is evolving at an alarming rate and threat detection solutions, antivirus and EDR can no longer keep up. ThreatLocker CEO, Danny Jenkins will explain how he’s changing the entire approach and paradigm to cybersecurity with a clean and comprehensive approach to ensuring ransomware does not end up in your environment.

It has become an established fact that the human factor is the most important element to secure in any organization if security is to be maintained. This case study will take real-life examples (with no names used!) and examine some actual security incidents caused by human error and elaborate on the root cause and prevention tips resulting from these events.

By 2019, the nonprofit group ISACA predicts a global shortage of two million cyber security professionals. Security can no longer work in a silo-- they now need to communicate across the business and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders from product line managers to ops teams. Outreach’s CISO, Martin Rues, knew finding a candidate with the combination of DevOps, Security and Cloud would be a time-consuming exercise with low yield. He decided to invest in his teams and create an apprenticeship program to “draft and develop” internal talent, and groom then into the Cloud SecOps role that we required. Join Martin on July 26th at 1pm EDT to learn how he developed the apprenticeship program to build internal cloud security talent.