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Given an outcome, we often exaggerate our ability to predict and therefore avoid the same fate. In cybersecurity, this misconception can lead to a false sense of corporate security, or worse, bury the true causes of incidents and lead to repeated data breaches or business disrupting cyber incidents. In this session, we will explore real-world incidents and threats to assemble an actionable cyber resilience framework that adapts to distributed assets, remote workers, and virtual workloads.

Cyber breaches are more frequent and impactful than ever. Hardly a day goes by without headlines alerting us to yet another devastating attack. To protect against such breaches, Identity-Centric PAM founded on Zero Trust is in the spotlight, seeing huge growth in adoption.

There are many starting points on the path to Identity-Centric PAM. However, all roads still converge on identity. Hackers don’t hack in anymore — they log in using weak, default, stolen, or otherwise compromised credentials. Indeed, Forrester Research estimates that 80 percent of today’s breaches involve privileged access abuse — that is, compromised user accounts that have administrative access to critical systems in the organization.

The session will explore how Identity-Centric PAM helps organizations ensure that access to their compute (on-premises or in the cloud), network, DevOps, and data resources is appropriate, sanctioned, compliant, and secure.

WatchGuard CTO and 20+ year cyber security veteran, Corey Nachreiner, highlights the top cyber security threats of 2020 and how your organization can defend against them.

• Covers the top 5 cyber threats affecting all organizations during 2020
• Shares quantifiable threat analysis from WatchGuard’s Q2 Internet Security Report (ISR)
• Offers defensive strategies throughout that help businesses avoid these dangers

The Enterprise Content Firewall

To do their jobs, employees must share IP, PII, PHI, and all means of sensitive content with customers, suppliers, partners and a broad ecosystem of trusted 3rd parties. However, they put the organization at risk when they communicate across untrusted devices, networks, applications and identities. How can you prevent beaches and compliance violations from everyday 3rd party communications when you can’t even see what’s going on? This session explores the need for a next-generation “content firewall” that rises above packets and traffic to inspect content and communication, and thereby ensure confidentiality, compliance and control of risky 3rd party business processes.

Organizations spend more money on cyber security tools every year, yet the number of breaches and the cost of these breaches continues to increase. A new approach is needed that relies on autonomous analysis that can respond at machine speed. By embracing automation, AI and big data analytics organizations can better prevent threats, find and detect what is missed, provide contextual linking for forensic and threat hunting – and even more importantly self heal and fully recover when necessary.

Ransomware is an equal opportunity destroyer with almost limitless potential to cause harm. Case in point: the City of Atlanta network breach, March 2018. Atlanta’s phase one recovery required millions of dollars and more than a year to accomplish. Even now, remediation and rebuilding efforts continue. During this session, we will discuss Atlanta’s chronology of events, from time of breach to present day, as well as Forescout’s role in restoring Atlanta’s network and services. We will also cover use cases going forward—for the City of Atlanta and for every organization intent on hardening networks and minimizing the ransomware threat.

The term ‘Threat Intelligence’ has always attracted lots of hype and attention, but what does it actually mean? And, more importantly, how can it help you protect your network? In this presentation, we’ll discuss what Threat Intelligence really looks like in the context of a layered security approach and we’ll use real-world examples to show how it can even improve a network’s defenses at the perimeter while saving your analyst’s time.