Live Broadcast: Be Empowered to Threat Hunt in 2019

Email phishing remains a top security threat. Even smart and savvy people are fooled everyday by these malicious emails. They’re even harder to spot now that bad actors use information from social media to personalize their attacks against your customers and your business. In this webinar, Brian Wickenhauser, Mastercard’s Vice President of Security Events Management, will share examples of phishing attempts, how to spot them, ways to combat them and tips for improved safety – all important information to add to your security training programs.

While current anti-phishing solutions usually cover basic entry-level phishing scams using reactive inside-the-firewall defenses, a billion of potential variations of sophisticated phishing scams are already being planned and executed everywhere on the internet, entirely undisturbed, evading most current detection tools. Todays phishing attacks are no longer performed by scruffy hoodie covered villains, but by sophisticated, risk-calculating, online marketing experts who take social engineering to new heights. By constantly using A/B testing to improve their technology with each attack, they know how to tell a convincing story that would trick even the savviest users, causing irreversible reputational and financial damages to brands worldwide.

When security controls fail, can you detect unusual and anomalous activity with sufficient context to accurately ascertain the risk to the organization? Most organizations don't even know when security controls have failed. This is a primary reason why intrusions exist in organizations for upwards of 200 days before being discovered. Additionally, heuristic and homogeneous alerts provide virtually zero context about anomalous activity inside the internal network and do nothing to help cyber defense teams prioritize and correctly remediate cyberattacks.

As organizations are relying more and more on cloud collaboration tools to store and share sensitive customer data, security concerns abound. Failure to comply with regulation is not a risk worth taking, and the financial cost, time lost and reputation damage from even one data breach can jeopardize an entire company. After all, it is the people behind the files and sensitive data that you need to protect.