Los Angeles Cybersecurity Conference

Thursday, March 20, 2025

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This event has been rescheduled from January 16, 2025 to March 20, 2025 due to the wild fires in and around the LA area.

Join Us in Los Angeles for the Futurecon Cybersecurity Event!

Hear from our esteemed speakers while gaining up to 10 CPE credits. Immerse yourself in the latest cybersecurity developments to gain valuable insights in today’s dynamic threat landscape. Learn how to effectively manage risk, demo the newest technologies from an array of different sponsors, and network with your local community.

Don’t miss our special ceremony recognizing our honorary attendees receiving an Award of Excellence!

Join us live for breakfast, lunch, and a wrap up cocktail happy hour!

 

 

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“Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem”

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FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training to C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers).

Join us for a day with multiple illuminating presentations and a panel discussion featuring C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks, demo the newest technology, and discover the cutting-edge security approaches to prepare you for the future of the Cyber World.

You will gain the latest knowledge you need to enable applications while keeping your computing environment secure from even the most advanced Cyber Threats. Interact with the world’s security leaders and your peers to gather details on other pressing topics of interest to the information security community.

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Agenda

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8:00 am

Opening Introductions | Check In | Networking

Presentation

9:00 am

The Coming Earthquake in App and API Security

The ground upon which your existing security practices and defense philosophy is based is starting to crack, with these tectonic plates shifting underneath.  In this session we’ll look at the shifts taking place. Attack trends are shifting from simple infrastructure & identity compromises to the emergence of sophisticated multi-faceted attacks, read more…

The ground upon which your existing security practices and defense philosophy is based is starting to crack, with these tectonic plates shifting underneath. 

In this session we’ll look at the shifts taking place. Attack trends are shifting from simple infrastructure & identity compromises to the emergence of sophisticated multi-faceted attacks, which increasingly include application and API layer vulnerabilities. Risk measurement is shifting from prioritizing risks purely based on vulns in development to the emergence of prioritizing based on level of threat, blast radius, and other production context. And legal liability is shifting from corporations being protected by “reasonable and customary” box-checking to the emergence of both corporate AND EXECUTIVE liability without having to prove negligence for either vulnerabilities or bugs.

Your current practices and defense philosophy were devised for a terrain map that is rapidly becoming outdated. What should they look like once the tremors subside?

Bio

Larry Maccherone

Dev(Sec)Ops Transformation Architect Contrast Security

Sponsored by

Presentation

9:30 am

THE UNINTENTIONAL INTRUDER: Executive Safety, Brand Integrity, and Social Media Defense

Bio

Patrick Kearly

Senior Solutions Engineer ZeroFox

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10:00 am

Sponsor Networking Time

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Presentation

10:30 am

Fortify Your Organization’s Security and Stay Ahead of Evolving Threats

In this presentation Fastly Senior Security Strategist, Ivan Tirado,  will discuss some key findings from Fastly’s 2024 Threat Insights Report. This report exposes the latest attack trends and techniques across the web application and API security landscape. Key findings presented in this session include: – The most critical application security read more…
In this presentation Fastly Senior Security Strategist, Ivan Tirado,  will discuss some key findings from Fastly’s 2024 Threat Insights Report. This report exposes the latest attack trends and techniques across the web application and API security landscape.

Key findings presented in this session include:

– The most critical application security threats affecting your industry.

– The latest methods used by threat actors.
– How collective intelligence enhances your defense strategies.
– Strategies to improve your AppSec posture.
– Insights into the profile of bot traffic.

With 5.5 trillion requests per month, the findings in this report provide a comprehensive analysis of the latest attack trends and techniques, designed to help security software managers enhance their defenses.

Bio

Ivan Tirado

Senior Security Strategist Fastly

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Presentation

11:00 am

What’s your Security Strategy?

Hear a former Adobe and Cisco security executive share the strategies that worked as he helped protect these top companies from advanced cyber-attacks. During the last 20 years Den Jones led teams responsible for securing some of the world’s top companies as well as security-focused startups. While at Adobe and read more…

Hear a former Adobe and Cisco security executive share the strategies that worked as he helped protect these top companies from advanced cyber-attacks.

During the last 20 years Den Jones led teams responsible for securing some of the world’s top companies as well as security-focused startups. While at Adobe and Cisco, Den sat on Advisory Boards for some of the security industry’s top vendors and collaborated with other executives on the latest strategies. During that journey he devised an approach that is cost-effective and efficient.

In this session, we’ll talk about security strategies; we’ll get a little controversial, and then a little practical.

Let’s ask/answer a few questions:

What’s worse?

  • Do you have too many tools poorly deployed, or too few tools expertly deployed?
  • Should you choose suites or best of breed?

Since we always lack budget and resources then what’s the strategy? We can’t do it all but at 909Cyber we have devised an approach that will help you meet today’s security challenges whether you have a team or not.

During the session we’ll dig into this and a lot more as I provide some proven tested strategies that help thwart today’s attacks.

Bio

Den Jones

Founder & CEO 909Cyber

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11:30 am

Sponsor Networking Time

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11:45 am

Lunch

Keynote

12:00 pm
Bio

Shonita Stevenson

Information Security Policy Governance Lead Office of The CISO | University of Southern California
1:00 pm

Sponsor Networking Time

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Presentation

1:30 pm

Optimizing SOC Operations to Detect Earlier and Respond Faster

Bio

John Minasyan

Chief Operating Officer LMNTRIX

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Presentation

2:00 pm

Ransomware Evolution and Defense

Bio

Miguel Martinez

Chief Technology Officer Tec-Refresh, Inc.

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2:30 pm

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2:45 pm

Modern Data Protection

Presentation

3:15 pm
Bio

Deborah Kyong

Solutions Engineer Cloudflare

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3:45 pm

Sponsor Networking Time

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Panel Discussion

4:00 pm

"Securing the Future: CISO Insights and Industry Leaders Discussing Current Cyber Threats and Strategic Defense Practices"

Bio

Dhruv Pandya

Director Information Security Wistia
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Allen Ohanian

Information Security Officer Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
Bio

Gary Gooden

Deputy Chief Information Officer County of Ventura
Bio

Shonita Stevenson

Information Security Policy Governance Lead Office of The CISO | University of Southern California
5:00 pm

Closing Remarks