Dave DeWalt, Founder, NightDragon

2021 was a record year for cybersecurity threats, with damages estimated to cost organizations $6 trillion and headlines filled with attacks that have stolen digital information or disrupted government, business and supply chain functions. Yet, amidst all this devastation, we have also seen a new, unprecedented age of innovation emerge. In this keynote, NightDragon Founder and former FireEye and McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt will explore the rapidly evolving threat landscape, as well as the record levels of investment that has poured into the cybersecurity industry and the new technology categories that have emerged to close the threats between offense and defense today and for many years to come.

John Ayers, Vice President, Advanced Detection & Response, Optiv

Jim Canup, Senior Practice Manager, Threat Management, Optiv

Curtis Fechner, Engineering Fellow, Optiv

Brian Wrozek, CISO, Optiv

Cyber threat actors continue to exploit well-known software vulnerabilities (e.g., Log4Shell, OpenShift, Sequoia, SolarWinds, etc.) against broad target sets, including public and private sector organizations worldwide. Advanced persistent threat actors also continue to increase their level of sophistication in leveraging exploit chains in which they use proven cyberattack patterns to exploit multiple known vulnerabilities grouped together to compromise a target. As such, these security vulnerabilities continue to provide a huge opening and multiple attack vectors for an untold number of potential serious network intrusions. Organizations can detect and mitigate these vulnerabilities by applying available patches to their systems and applications, leveraging security monitoring solutions and proven mitigation techniques, and implementing better, more mature remediation programs. In this session, we will discuss some of the key challenges and areas of consideration for detecting and preventing “exploits of the future” by learning from past experiences and lessons learned.

John Ayers, Vice President, Advanced Detection & Response, Optiv

Mark Gapen, SOC Operations Manager, Optiv

Thinking about heightening your security posture, but don’t know where to start? Optiv’s Advanced Detection and Response (ADR) offers a suite of services focused on threat-informed detection and response that correlate events and identify incidents to help clients get back to normal fast. In this session John Ayers and Mark Gapen discuss the differences, evolution, and capabilities of the quintessential threat detection tools which make up Optiv’s ADR Solution. Let us help explain how you can take your security infrastructure to the next level.

Derek Melber, Chief Technology and Security Strategist, Tenable

Zero Trust is an essential and beneficial framework for any organization. However, it is not a light switch, so there must be initial efforts where the biggest results will stem. This is obviously Active Directory (AD), which holds the keys to the kingdom. In this session 17x Microsoft MVP, Derek Melber, will focus on what needs to be done in AD to help with your Zero Trust efforts.

Gurinder Bhatti, Senior Solutions Engineer, Okta

The shift to a hybrid workforce is forcing organizations to view security challenges through a modern lens. As Zero Trust becomes a higher priority, we need to understand how we got here and how to strategically think about a solution to those modern threats, as part of an overall security strategy.

Jerry Chapman, Engineering Fellow, Optiv

Over the span of weeks in 2020, Zero Trust went from being a marketing buzzword to the best strategy for securing the non-perimeter from all unknown users, devices and applications seeking access. Yet nearly two years later, there is still confusion about what Zero Trust maturity looks like and even the actual definition of Zero Trust. Join our Zero Trust expert who will be answering three primary questions: What are the stages of Zero Trust maturity – and where are you? What are the most common – and effective – strategies for embracing Zero Trust? Where should you invest to expand your Zero Trust footprint in 2022?

David Vinci, Channel Business Manager, Prisma SASE, Palo Alto Networks

Today, we have a unique opportunity to re-architect our networks to be as flexible and scalable as we need; to reimagine security as something built-in rather than bolted-on; and to put the user at the center of everything, creating countless possibilities and enabling the future of work.

Daniel Christiansen, Global Cybersecurity Advisor, Splunk

Zero Trust has a lot of moving parts. A big component is the ability to monitor the data on accounts, networks, and assets to make fast and accurate detections. Join Splunk as they provide an overview of how data analytics, SIEM, machine learning, and SOAR can be leveraged to enhance your Zero Trust detections and remediation.

Brian Bradley, Healthcare Services Technical Manager, Optiv

Jeff Foresman, Vice President, Risk Transformation, Optiv

Sean Tufts, Practice Director, Product Security - ICS & IOT, Optiv

Medical devices are transforming from large clunky immovable to innovative, implantable and wearable enabling both advances in Healthcare and opportunities for threat actors. As medical devices have transformed and patient data has increased digitally; security has become complex. We will discuss best practices in reducing your attack surface of your digital healthcare environment.

Jason Rivera, Senior Director, Strategic Threat Advisory Group, CrowdStrike

This brief will cover CrowdStrike’s latest and most relevant intelligence trends pertaining to criminal cyber threat actors, ransomware capabilities, and their associated tactics, techniques, & procedures (TTPs). Topics covered will include: initial access mechanisms, post-exploitation techniques, and ransomware capabilities and TTP’s

Josh Kleen, Enterprise Sales Engineer, Rubrik

Corporate data is under attack. Ransomware is now a multi-billion dollar industry with no signs of slowing down. Just watching the evening news, it is clear that organizations are not ready for this new reality and often times, just paying the ransom is faster and cheaper than trying to recover in house, if that’s even an option. With security teams now being mandated to come up with solutions to this problem, the industry is being flooded with tools and technologies that claim to be immutable. But what does that mean, how does that work, and is it enough? During this session, we will talk about what truly immutable data looks like, how a secure architecture for data is built, and what needs to be done to make sure your last line of defense against data loss is always ready when, not if, it is called upon.

Shane Cox, Vice President, Security Operations, Optiv

Danny Pickens, Practice Director, Enterprise Incident and Response, Optiv

Bill Young, Vice President & General Manager, Threat Management, Optiv

Hunters and Purple Teamers share a common goal in both understanding and deterring advanced adversaries to enhance an organizations security posture and reduce the risk of successful attacks against the enterprise. Beginning these operations with the right intelligence allows each team member to begin targeted and confident operations. In this session, we will discuss the roles and responsibilities of hunters, red teamers, blue teamers, and intelligence professionals and how each can be prepared for the fight ahead.