George Washington University Information Session: Graduate Cybersecurity & Safety and Security Leadership Online Programs

When usernames and passwords are compromised in a data breach, the consequences extend far beyond the victim organization due to rampant password reuse. For this reason, NIST recently recommended that organizations check users’ credentials against a set of known compromised passwords. However, by patroning dark web forums and paying for spilled credentials, enterprises indirectly support the criminal ecosystem. Furthermore, attackers often don’t publicly post stolen data until months or years after the breach, if at all. Is there a better way to follow NIST guidelines and protect users from account takeover? Join Justin Richer, co-author of NIST Digital Identity Guidelines 800-63B, and Gautam Agarwal, Shape's Senior Director of Product Management, for a lively discussion on NIST’s password recommendations and how best to prevent account takeover fraud at your organization.

The number of cyberattacks on financial institutions (FIs) cannot be overstated. In the past year, there have been more than one billion cyberattacks on financial institutions. That is three hundred times more than any other industry, such as retail, insurance, or healthcare. At an average cost of $18 million dollars for each successful attack, what are you to do? How do you combat this aggressively growing threat? In this webinar, OneSpan and ISMG will summarize key findings from a recent study that surveyed the state of adaptive authentication from over 150 FIs and what techniques can be taken to mitigate the increasing rate of cyberthreats.

Everyone knows security is overloaded work wise – not everyone understands what that means. Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is typically very technical so how can you convince the teams setting business objectives and allocating resources (for budget) of what the cybersecurity priorities should be? A modern CTI program needs to show value to the business because it will help solve some of the major problems we’re seeing in TI programs today (such as lack of resources or lack of data). Part of this includes bridging the gap between threat and risk to ensure your operational strategy aligns with the overall business objectives.

Join Andy Pendergast, co-author of the Diamond Model and co-founder of ThreatConnect and Monzy Merza, Director of Cyber Research at Splunk to see how you can apply Threat Intelligence to protect your organization and prevent future breaches. During the talk, Andy will share threat intel on a nation state threat and Monzy will do a live demonstration of operationalizing the new Threat Intelligence.