St. Louis Cybersecurity Conference

The biggest issue facing enterprise security operations is the deficit of available, affordable, and experienced cyber security professionals. SOAR & SIEM are touted as the answer. In this session, Michael McGinnis, Director of Solution Engineering, walks through real-life (but anonymized) experiences from our featured customers, showing how AI-driven SOAR solves the experience and availability issues, maximizing analyst efficiency, reducing the burden of threat investigations and validation, through task and decision automation. 

Leveraging insights from customer deployments, this talk will include: 

• Advanced Threat Detection: Learn how security teams can facilitate the creation of sophisticated models that identify subtle patterns and anomalies within massive datasets, enabling early detection of potential threats.
• Real-time Incident Response: Observe how AI-driven analytics expedite incident response by correlating disparate data sources, automating investigations, and delivering actionable real-time insights.
• Predictive Insights: Learn how analysts are empowered to forecast potential vulnerabilities and security gaps, enabling proactive mitigation strategies to reduce risk.
• Operational Efficiency: Discover how security teams can leverage AI and ML to streamline workflows to focus on strategic initiatives rather than routine tasks.
• Adaptation and Evolution: Find out how AI and ML continually learn from new data, ensuring that defenses evolve alongside emerging threats.

People in the cybersecurity industry have various skills and experience. One’s experiences and perceptions might be fact in one environment, but may not be across the industry. In this presentation I address some of the common notions and whether they are truth, myth or maybe.

The cybersecurity environment becomes considerably more challenging for cyber defenders when the trade in discovered, but undisclosed, vulnerabilities are added into the picture, driving more zero-day incidents. 

This presentation will explore some of the evolving trends in the threat landscape, and the trade of vulnerabilities, that make cyberthreat intelligence an essential layer of a prevention first defense in an organization’s cybersecurity posture. While technology, and the use of AI, has helped to automate cyber defense it is imperative that this is coupled with human expertise. 

It is critical that organizations understand the risk and dangers of advanced and zero-day threats and adapt accordingly to enhance cybersecurity defenses.

In the cybersecurity world, Red, Blue, and Purple teams have established their roles in fortifying defenses and improving organizational resiliency. However, the spotlight often bypasses a crucial player—the Yellow Teams—operating at the intersection of development, IT, and the cloud. 

Using the familiar color wheel analogy, this insightful discussion describes the yellow team’s pivotal role in fortifying software and infrastructure by seamlessly integrating Red and Blue techniques – improving tech resiliency. Key topics include: 

• Unveiling the essentials for tech-savvy professionals to integrate security 
• Crafting a vibrant palette: transforming Yellow Teams into dynamic orange and green forces 
• The collective advantage: reducing risk via confident, resilient teams

Information Security Enforcement (ISE) is a 4th generation Data Leak Prevention (DLP) solution that enables automated, comprehensive protection against malicious theft and inadvertent disclosure of confidential information. Whether deployed on-prem or in the cloud, ISE addresses critical gaps affecting typical DLP solutions and greatly simplifies implementation and management of data protection.

Threat briefing on North Korean remote IT workers.

This session will provide an overview of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the free, non-regulatory services provided to all 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors, and an overview of CISA’s Secure by Design initiative.  As America’s Cyber Defense Agency, CISA is charged with defending our nation against ever-evolving cyber threats and to understand, manage, and reduce risk to the cyber and physical infrastructure that Americans rely on every hour of every day.  It’s time to build cybersecurity into the design and manufacture of technology products. 

Book Signing by Keynote Speaker and Author Ed Adams: In See Yourself in Cyber: Security Careers Beyond Hacking, information security strategist and educator Ed Adams delivers a unique and insightful discussion of the many different ways the people in your organization—inhabiting a variety of roles not traditionally associated with cybersecurity—can contribute to improving its cybersecurity backbone. You’ll discover how developers, DevOps professionals, managers, and others can strengthen your cybersecurity. You’ll also find out how improving your firm’s diversity and inclusion can have dramatically positive effects on your team’s talent.