Skybox Security addresses recent trends and changes in strategy in the network security space and the challenges facing IT security professionals and CISOs.
Black Hat 2014: Don’t be a Target: Everything You Know About Vulnerability Pr...Skybox Security
Presented at Black Hat 2014.
Heartbleed. Target. Adobe … businesses are under siege by cybercriminals looking for financial gain and political actors looking for trade secrets. It’s a wildly uneven match where a motivated attacker can find exploitable attack vectors in minutes and maintain unabated access for months, while the security team continues to rely on time-honored methodology to fix vulnerabilities in order of severity.
But severity-based vulnerability management misses the mark completely, as it overlooks the fact that risk exposure is the real concern. This workshop will focus on identifying critical vulnerabilities so they can be fixed as quickly as possible to ensure a reduction in risk and the shrinking the attack surface over time.
In this deep dive session on vulnerability analysis and prioritization, we’ll cover:
- Calculating risk exposure: Risk = Impact * Likelihood * Time
- The data you need to be collecting about assets and vulnerabilities
- Prioritizing vulnerabilities using simple 2 factor relationships
- Asset-to-vulnerability correlation to augment the accuracy and freshness of active scan data
- Techniques to drive down the risk exposure time
Infosec 2014: Risk Analytics: Using Your Data to Solve Security ChallengesSkybox Security
“How secure are we?” “What's our strategy for advanced threats?” “How do we manage changes?” “What should we focus on?” “How is risk changing over time?” These are the difficult questions that IT security and network operations professionals face daily. The answer is in your data. Risk analytics is critical to answering the questions you face every day, opening new paths to find and prioritise vulnerabilities, quickly find firewall rule errors, and determine potential threats before they can be exploited.
This presentation is targeted at enterprise IT professionals looking to add security metrics and analytics into their security program.
- Understand why the existing approaches, processes and technologies for IT security get less effective over time
- Know what metrics and analytics are missing from your current strategy
- Recognise how risk analytics can be used to automate and secure your network devices
- Understand how vulnerability management process can be optimized with risk analytics - See how a risk analytics platform can impact an organisation
Skybox presentation from Security Interest Group Switzerland December 2014 meeting exploring current challenges of network security including vulnerability management and firewall change management.
Skybox is a Risk Analytics brain for security management
We provide visibility, intelligence and control to help you manage firewalls and changes, minimize vulnerabilities, and deal with threats --- on one common platform
With Skybox, you can visualize your network, prioritize risks in minutes, find attack vectors, and save time through security automation.
We help you Take Action Fast! How do we do this? Let’s show you how…
Presented in booth at Infosec 2014.
Skybox helps these organizations change the game against cyber attack. Attackers have a clear advantage. They have new tools at their disposal – targeted malware, plus plenty of security gaps to choose from.
Skybox Security is like a brain for security management
We provide visibility, intelligence and control to help you manage firewalls and changes, minimize vulnerabilities, and deal with threats --- on one common platform
With Skybox, you can visualize your network, prioritize risks in minutes, find attack vectors, and save time through security automation.
Network Security Best Practices - Reducing Your Attack SurfaceSkybox Security
Delivered as a webinar, this slide deck provides best practices for gaining total visibility of your attack surface and ways to manage and reduce your risk, network vulnerabilities, and potential breaches
Using a Network Model to Address SANS Critical Controls 10 and 11Skybox Security
Skybox Security joins SANS to address using a network model to gain insight into your attack surface and how to address SANS Critical Controls 10 and 11
What's Wrong with Vulnerability Management & How Can We Fix ItSkybox Security
Learn what nearly 1000 IT security professionals have to say about vulnerability management. Based on the findings of a Skybox global survey, see what works and what doesn't in vulnerability assessment, prioritization, and remediation, and how you can improve your program today. Learn the benefits of creating a formal policy that fits your organization, how to assess risk within the context of your organization, and how to create a mature program with continuous security to neutralize risk every day.
Black Hat 2014: Don’t be a Target: Everything You Know About Vulnerability Pr...Skybox Security
Presented at Black Hat 2014.
Heartbleed. Target. Adobe … businesses are under siege by cybercriminals looking for financial gain and political actors looking for trade secrets. It’s a wildly uneven match where a motivated attacker can find exploitable attack vectors in minutes and maintain unabated access for months, while the security team continues to rely on time-honored methodology to fix vulnerabilities in order of severity.
But severity-based vulnerability management misses the mark completely, as it overlooks the fact that risk exposure is the real concern. This workshop will focus on identifying critical vulnerabilities so they can be fixed as quickly as possible to ensure a reduction in risk and the shrinking the attack surface over time.
In this deep dive session on vulnerability analysis and prioritization, we’ll cover:
- Calculating risk exposure: Risk = Impact * Likelihood * Time
- The data you need to be collecting about assets and vulnerabilities
- Prioritizing vulnerabilities using simple 2 factor relationships
- Asset-to-vulnerability correlation to augment the accuracy and freshness of active scan data
- Techniques to drive down the risk exposure time
Infosec 2014: Risk Analytics: Using Your Data to Solve Security ChallengesSkybox Security
“How secure are we?” “What's our strategy for advanced threats?” “How do we manage changes?” “What should we focus on?” “How is risk changing over time?” These are the difficult questions that IT security and network operations professionals face daily. The answer is in your data. Risk analytics is critical to answering the questions you face every day, opening new paths to find and prioritise vulnerabilities, quickly find firewall rule errors, and determine potential threats before they can be exploited.
This presentation is targeted at enterprise IT professionals looking to add security metrics and analytics into their security program.
- Understand why the existing approaches, processes and technologies for IT security get less effective over time
- Know what metrics and analytics are missing from your current strategy
- Recognise how risk analytics can be used to automate and secure your network devices
- Understand how vulnerability management process can be optimized with risk analytics - See how a risk analytics platform can impact an organisation
Skybox presentation from Security Interest Group Switzerland December 2014 meeting exploring current challenges of network security including vulnerability management and firewall change management.
Skybox is a Risk Analytics brain for security management
We provide visibility, intelligence and control to help you manage firewalls and changes, minimize vulnerabilities, and deal with threats --- on one common platform
With Skybox, you can visualize your network, prioritize risks in minutes, find attack vectors, and save time through security automation.
We help you Take Action Fast! How do we do this? Let’s show you how…
Presented in booth at Infosec 2014.
Skybox helps these organizations change the game against cyber attack. Attackers have a clear advantage. They have new tools at their disposal – targeted malware, plus plenty of security gaps to choose from.
Skybox Security is like a brain for security management
We provide visibility, intelligence and control to help you manage firewalls and changes, minimize vulnerabilities, and deal with threats --- on one common platform
With Skybox, you can visualize your network, prioritize risks in minutes, find attack vectors, and save time through security automation.
Network Security Best Practices - Reducing Your Attack SurfaceSkybox Security
Delivered as a webinar, this slide deck provides best practices for gaining total visibility of your attack surface and ways to manage and reduce your risk, network vulnerabilities, and potential breaches
Using a Network Model to Address SANS Critical Controls 10 and 11Skybox Security
Skybox Security joins SANS to address using a network model to gain insight into your attack surface and how to address SANS Critical Controls 10 and 11
What's Wrong with Vulnerability Management & How Can We Fix ItSkybox Security
Learn what nearly 1000 IT security professionals have to say about vulnerability management. Based on the findings of a Skybox global survey, see what works and what doesn't in vulnerability assessment, prioritization, and remediation, and how you can improve your program today. Learn the benefits of creating a formal policy that fits your organization, how to assess risk within the context of your organization, and how to create a mature program with continuous security to neutralize risk every day.
5 Steps to Reduce Your Window of VulnerabilitySkybox Security
Skybox Security offers advice and an immediately actionable plan to help you reduce your window of vulnerability and attack surface on your critical network infrastructure.
Think Like a Hacker: Using Network Analytics and Attack Simulation to Find an...Skybox Security
If you’re tasked with keeping your enterprise network infrastructure secure against cyber attacks, then you’d better start thinking like a hacker. Do you know what your network looks like? Where are all the access points? Can you create a short list of the most vital vulnerabilities a hacker could exploit? And how long does it take you to get this info? Days? Weeks? Never?
In this webcast, we will discuss a practical game plan to continuously monitor your cyber security status and proactively fix concerns before they become a data breach or attack. Learn how to minimize risks by combining a detailed understanding of your network topology, cyber threats, and likely attack scenarios with everyday security management processes. This webcast is appropriate for firewall and network administrators, IT security managers, and CISOs in medium to large business and government agencies.
We will examine:
• Network mapping – How to create a virtual network model to use for security architecture planning and policy compliance checks
• Access analysis – Ways to identify all network access routes , to block unauthorized access and quickly troubleshoot network availability issues
• Securing the perimeter – Enable daily checks of firewalls and network devices to keep them configured securely
• Attack simulation – Find and fix the vulnerabilities most likely to be used in an attack – every day
Best Practices for Network Security Management Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen, Founder & CEO, Skybox Security
Changing technology and business trends pose new challenges to network security management, including firewall change management processes, management of security configurations in a BYOD-world, regulatory compliance, validation of firewall migrations, and troubleshooting access problems to complex networks. Through case studies, survey data, and real-world practices, this session will grant insight into automating and optimizing network security management.
Learn to streamline and automate firewall analysis to improve productivity
Discover how to automate network device configuration to minimize error
Gain insight into how secure change management can ensure stringent security compliance
A Call to Arms: Using a Working Model of the Attack Surface to Improve Incide...Skybox Security
Systematically combine network data and intelligence sources to create a working model of the attack surface. Perform attack simulation to easily identify weak points in your defenses. Target vulnerability concentrations with streamlined actions and fix risky firewall rules and changes with automated risk assessment. With comprehensive network data at your fingertips, SOC analysts and incident response teams can achieve same-day response to cyber attacks.
Take your enterprise network security to the next level. Prevent, analyze, and respond to cyber attacks in real time.
Webcast Series #1: Continuous Security and Compliance Monitoring for Global I...Qualys
Learn to effectively navigate the risks, new regulations, and new technologies on your journey to a secure and compliant digital transformation with this Qualys webcast series.
In this webcast, Chris Carlson, Vice President of Product Management at Qualys, discussed how enterprises can achieve immediate visibility across on-premises, endpoint, and cloud IT environments with Qualys Cloud Platform and its powerful, natively integrated security and compliance applications.
You will learn how Qualys Cloud Platform allows you to:
• Have all of your data analyzed in real time
• Respond to threats immediately
• See the results in one place, in just seconds
• Protect your digital transformation efforts
Watch the on-demand recording: https://goo.gl/gC7jZR
Top 5 Cloud Security Predictions for 2016 Alert Logic
Join Alert Logic Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder Misha Govshteyn as he presents his predictions for the state of cloud security in 2016, including:
-The rise of cloud adoption and how businesses will approach the cloud
-What the threat landscape for cloud environments will look like
-How data and analytics will evolve to meet cloud adoption
...and more.
You’ll get a clear view of what expert security researchers are expecting in the coming year for organizations like yours who are leveraging the power of cloud infrastructure.
See the accompanying webinar here: https://www.alertlogic.com/resources/webinars/top-5-cloud-security-predictions-for-2016/
#ALSummit: Accenture - Making the Move: Enabling Security in the CloudAlert Logic
Bill Phelps (Managing Director of Security Programs, Accenture)'s presentation on observations of cloud security trends at the NYC Alert Logic Cloud Security Summit on June 14th, 2016.
Security Whack-a-Mole: SANS 2017 Threat Landscape SurveyQualys
As quickly as we learn to detect new threats, the threats change — like a game of Whack-a-Mole happening at an ever-increasing pace.
A new survey by the SANS Institute focuses on providing valuable intelligence into the types of threats most severely impacting organizations like yours, and how those threats are evolving.
In this webcast, Lee Neely, who teaches cyber security courses for SANS, Mark Butler, Chief Information Security Officer at Qualys, and other survey sponsors discuss what threat actors are currently up to and how they’re getting around existing defenses, so that you can anticipate attacks and get ahead of the attackers.
Key trends discussed include:
• Primary vectors attackers enter through
• Methods attackers use most effectively as part of their layered attacks
• Impacts of breaches and how to remediate
• Best places to apply defenses
• Lessons learned by those who have been breached
Watch the on-demand webcast: https://www.sans.org/webcasts/105430
Download the complete report: https://goo.gl/rP4KEs
Mobile Threat Protection: A Holistic Approach to Securing Mobile Data and Dev...Skycure
How can mobile device data be protected? This SANS webcast reviews the current and emerging services and practices designed to help secure and protect the data on these devices, and identifies areas where solutions are needed to fill the remaining gaps and provides recommendations for a holistic approach including mobile threat protection.
Public cloud providers operate on a shared responsibility model, which places the onus on the customer to define and secure the data and applications that are hosted within cloud infrastructure.
To that end, it is critical that organizations accurately and selectively pinpoint which cloud workloads and virtual IT assets must be monitored, updated and patched based on developing threats to customer data and applications.
In this webcast, Mark Butler, Chief Information Security Officer at Qualys, and Hari Srinivasan, Director of Product Management for Qualys Cloud and Virtualization Security detail how you can gain complete visibility of your organization’s entire cloud asset inventory and security posture to help you keep up with shared security responsibility models across public cloud infrastructure.
The presentation covers:
• Challenges surrounding increased migration to public clouds
• Using automation for secure DevOps
• How to ensure effective and efficient operations
To watch the on-demand webcast, visit https://lps.qualys.com/securing-your-public-cloud-infrastructure.html
The security practitioner's role is changing significantly. Trends like mobile, cloud, DevOps, and Zero Trust are creating new roles and erasing others. This presentation navigates these changes and makes some recommendations for folks wanting to keep up with the curve.
Webcast Series #3: GDPR Deadline Readiness and Impact to Global Organizations...Qualys
Learn to effectively navigate the security risks, new regulations, and new technologies on your journey to a secure and compliant digital transformation with this Qualys webcast series.
In this webcast, Tim White, Director of Product Management at Qualys, explained how Qualys helps customers worldwide comply with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You will learn how Qualys’ security and compliance apps enable GDPR compliance by:
• Tracking and classifying the IT assets which contain EU customers’ personal data
• Providing ongoing protection of personal data across global IT environments and third parties
• Maintaining continuous visibility of your organization’s GDPR compliance state
Watch the on-demand recording: https://goo.gl/DkNq52
Automating Critical Security Controls for Threat Remediation and ComplianceQualys
Trends like the increased use of cloud computing by businesses and their vendors introduce new complexities in reducing risk and assessing security across the supply chain. Demonstrating continuous risk reduction and compliance with internal policies and external regulations, fixing violations and configuration drift, centrally managing exceptions, and documenting progress are all common challenges.
The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Critical Security Controls (CSCs) were selected and prioritized by leading security experts to stop today’s most common and serious cyber threats. By implementing these controls, organizations can improve their security posture and reduce the risk of threats to critical assets, data, and network infrastructure.
In this webcast SANS Senior Analyst John Pescatore and Tim White, Director of Product Management for Qualys Policy Compliance (PC), discuss how you can achieve continuous security and compliance, and leverage Qualys solutions to address all 20 CSCs.
The presentation encompasses:
• An overview of the CIS Critical Security Controls, including ongoing updates
• Success patterns organizations have demonstrated for using the controls to their advantage
• How an automation can reduce the staffing load to determine whether controls are in place and effective
• How to prioritize remediation efforts
• Real-world examples of recent attacks that leveraged misconfigured systems
Watch the on-demand webcast: https://goo.gl/j6Posx
This document is a sample report on the POC (proof of concept) document of MVISION Cloud (MVC), McAfee's Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution - formerly Skyhigh Networks. It includes the following:
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) Overview
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) Architecture
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) for Shadow IT
-- Observations and Recommendations
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) for Sanctioned SaaS
-- Observations and Recommendations
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) for Sanctioned IaaS
-- Observations and Recommendations
- End User Experience
- Administrator Experience
Goes well with the MVC POC document uploaded.
Please note all the information is based prior to July 2019.
This is the presentation used in Check Point's November 20th webinar on "Securing Your Cloud With vSEC". Be sure to check out the webinar replay here: <bitly/UTM>
Mobile Security - 2015 Wrap-up and 2016 PredictionsSkycure
If you still think Mobile Security is a thing of the future--think again. Millions of mobile devices worldwide were exposed in 2015 to vulnerabilities and advanced cyber-attacks including: No iOS Zone, XcodeGhost, Stagefright and SwiftKey to name just a few. Given 2015’s ultra-active cyber-risk front, we are sure 2016 has much more in store. In this webinar, Yair Amit, CTO and Co-founder at Skycure, wraps-up the state of mobile security in 2015 and shares his predictions for 2016.
Is Your Vulnerability Management Program Keeping Pace With Risks?Skybox Security
To effectively reduce the risks of cyber attacks, comply with continuous monitoring requirements, and provide visibility to executives, organizations need to manage their vulnerabilities and associated risks continuously. This is required in order to match or exceed the daily rate of attacks.
Why bother to assess your risks every 90 days when new threats are unleashed every day?
See how you can:
• Transform vulnerability discovery from a ‘round robin’ schedule to continuous monitoring for vulnerabilities
• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability and potential business impact
• Focus remediation efforts and track progress to show a measurable reduction of risk
• Make vulnerability management an essential part of daily change management processes
These slides will include case studies, survey data, and best practices – ideal for IT security practitioners who are considering, or already implementing, next-generation vulnerability management to effectively and measurably mitigate risk.
5 Steps to Reduce Your Window of VulnerabilitySkybox Security
Skybox Security offers advice and an immediately actionable plan to help you reduce your window of vulnerability and attack surface on your critical network infrastructure.
Think Like a Hacker: Using Network Analytics and Attack Simulation to Find an...Skybox Security
If you’re tasked with keeping your enterprise network infrastructure secure against cyber attacks, then you’d better start thinking like a hacker. Do you know what your network looks like? Where are all the access points? Can you create a short list of the most vital vulnerabilities a hacker could exploit? And how long does it take you to get this info? Days? Weeks? Never?
In this webcast, we will discuss a practical game plan to continuously monitor your cyber security status and proactively fix concerns before they become a data breach or attack. Learn how to minimize risks by combining a detailed understanding of your network topology, cyber threats, and likely attack scenarios with everyday security management processes. This webcast is appropriate for firewall and network administrators, IT security managers, and CISOs in medium to large business and government agencies.
We will examine:
• Network mapping – How to create a virtual network model to use for security architecture planning and policy compliance checks
• Access analysis – Ways to identify all network access routes , to block unauthorized access and quickly troubleshoot network availability issues
• Securing the perimeter – Enable daily checks of firewalls and network devices to keep them configured securely
• Attack simulation – Find and fix the vulnerabilities most likely to be used in an attack – every day
Best Practices for Network Security Management Skybox Security
Gidi Cohen, Founder & CEO, Skybox Security
Changing technology and business trends pose new challenges to network security management, including firewall change management processes, management of security configurations in a BYOD-world, regulatory compliance, validation of firewall migrations, and troubleshooting access problems to complex networks. Through case studies, survey data, and real-world practices, this session will grant insight into automating and optimizing network security management.
Learn to streamline and automate firewall analysis to improve productivity
Discover how to automate network device configuration to minimize error
Gain insight into how secure change management can ensure stringent security compliance
A Call to Arms: Using a Working Model of the Attack Surface to Improve Incide...Skybox Security
Systematically combine network data and intelligence sources to create a working model of the attack surface. Perform attack simulation to easily identify weak points in your defenses. Target vulnerability concentrations with streamlined actions and fix risky firewall rules and changes with automated risk assessment. With comprehensive network data at your fingertips, SOC analysts and incident response teams can achieve same-day response to cyber attacks.
Take your enterprise network security to the next level. Prevent, analyze, and respond to cyber attacks in real time.
Webcast Series #1: Continuous Security and Compliance Monitoring for Global I...Qualys
Learn to effectively navigate the risks, new regulations, and new technologies on your journey to a secure and compliant digital transformation with this Qualys webcast series.
In this webcast, Chris Carlson, Vice President of Product Management at Qualys, discussed how enterprises can achieve immediate visibility across on-premises, endpoint, and cloud IT environments with Qualys Cloud Platform and its powerful, natively integrated security and compliance applications.
You will learn how Qualys Cloud Platform allows you to:
• Have all of your data analyzed in real time
• Respond to threats immediately
• See the results in one place, in just seconds
• Protect your digital transformation efforts
Watch the on-demand recording: https://goo.gl/gC7jZR
Top 5 Cloud Security Predictions for 2016 Alert Logic
Join Alert Logic Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder Misha Govshteyn as he presents his predictions for the state of cloud security in 2016, including:
-The rise of cloud adoption and how businesses will approach the cloud
-What the threat landscape for cloud environments will look like
-How data and analytics will evolve to meet cloud adoption
...and more.
You’ll get a clear view of what expert security researchers are expecting in the coming year for organizations like yours who are leveraging the power of cloud infrastructure.
See the accompanying webinar here: https://www.alertlogic.com/resources/webinars/top-5-cloud-security-predictions-for-2016/
#ALSummit: Accenture - Making the Move: Enabling Security in the CloudAlert Logic
Bill Phelps (Managing Director of Security Programs, Accenture)'s presentation on observations of cloud security trends at the NYC Alert Logic Cloud Security Summit on June 14th, 2016.
Security Whack-a-Mole: SANS 2017 Threat Landscape SurveyQualys
As quickly as we learn to detect new threats, the threats change — like a game of Whack-a-Mole happening at an ever-increasing pace.
A new survey by the SANS Institute focuses on providing valuable intelligence into the types of threats most severely impacting organizations like yours, and how those threats are evolving.
In this webcast, Lee Neely, who teaches cyber security courses for SANS, Mark Butler, Chief Information Security Officer at Qualys, and other survey sponsors discuss what threat actors are currently up to and how they’re getting around existing defenses, so that you can anticipate attacks and get ahead of the attackers.
Key trends discussed include:
• Primary vectors attackers enter through
• Methods attackers use most effectively as part of their layered attacks
• Impacts of breaches and how to remediate
• Best places to apply defenses
• Lessons learned by those who have been breached
Watch the on-demand webcast: https://www.sans.org/webcasts/105430
Download the complete report: https://goo.gl/rP4KEs
Mobile Threat Protection: A Holistic Approach to Securing Mobile Data and Dev...Skycure
How can mobile device data be protected? This SANS webcast reviews the current and emerging services and practices designed to help secure and protect the data on these devices, and identifies areas where solutions are needed to fill the remaining gaps and provides recommendations for a holistic approach including mobile threat protection.
Public cloud providers operate on a shared responsibility model, which places the onus on the customer to define and secure the data and applications that are hosted within cloud infrastructure.
To that end, it is critical that organizations accurately and selectively pinpoint which cloud workloads and virtual IT assets must be monitored, updated and patched based on developing threats to customer data and applications.
In this webcast, Mark Butler, Chief Information Security Officer at Qualys, and Hari Srinivasan, Director of Product Management for Qualys Cloud and Virtualization Security detail how you can gain complete visibility of your organization’s entire cloud asset inventory and security posture to help you keep up with shared security responsibility models across public cloud infrastructure.
The presentation covers:
• Challenges surrounding increased migration to public clouds
• Using automation for secure DevOps
• How to ensure effective and efficient operations
To watch the on-demand webcast, visit https://lps.qualys.com/securing-your-public-cloud-infrastructure.html
The security practitioner's role is changing significantly. Trends like mobile, cloud, DevOps, and Zero Trust are creating new roles and erasing others. This presentation navigates these changes and makes some recommendations for folks wanting to keep up with the curve.
Webcast Series #3: GDPR Deadline Readiness and Impact to Global Organizations...Qualys
Learn to effectively navigate the security risks, new regulations, and new technologies on your journey to a secure and compliant digital transformation with this Qualys webcast series.
In this webcast, Tim White, Director of Product Management at Qualys, explained how Qualys helps customers worldwide comply with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You will learn how Qualys’ security and compliance apps enable GDPR compliance by:
• Tracking and classifying the IT assets which contain EU customers’ personal data
• Providing ongoing protection of personal data across global IT environments and third parties
• Maintaining continuous visibility of your organization’s GDPR compliance state
Watch the on-demand recording: https://goo.gl/DkNq52
Automating Critical Security Controls for Threat Remediation and ComplianceQualys
Trends like the increased use of cloud computing by businesses and their vendors introduce new complexities in reducing risk and assessing security across the supply chain. Demonstrating continuous risk reduction and compliance with internal policies and external regulations, fixing violations and configuration drift, centrally managing exceptions, and documenting progress are all common challenges.
The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Critical Security Controls (CSCs) were selected and prioritized by leading security experts to stop today’s most common and serious cyber threats. By implementing these controls, organizations can improve their security posture and reduce the risk of threats to critical assets, data, and network infrastructure.
In this webcast SANS Senior Analyst John Pescatore and Tim White, Director of Product Management for Qualys Policy Compliance (PC), discuss how you can achieve continuous security and compliance, and leverage Qualys solutions to address all 20 CSCs.
The presentation encompasses:
• An overview of the CIS Critical Security Controls, including ongoing updates
• Success patterns organizations have demonstrated for using the controls to their advantage
• How an automation can reduce the staffing load to determine whether controls are in place and effective
• How to prioritize remediation efforts
• Real-world examples of recent attacks that leveraged misconfigured systems
Watch the on-demand webcast: https://goo.gl/j6Posx
This document is a sample report on the POC (proof of concept) document of MVISION Cloud (MVC), McAfee's Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution - formerly Skyhigh Networks. It includes the following:
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) Overview
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) Architecture
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) for Shadow IT
-- Observations and Recommendations
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) for Sanctioned SaaS
-- Observations and Recommendations
- MVISION Cloud (MVC) for Sanctioned IaaS
-- Observations and Recommendations
- End User Experience
- Administrator Experience
Goes well with the MVC POC document uploaded.
Please note all the information is based prior to July 2019.
This is the presentation used in Check Point's November 20th webinar on "Securing Your Cloud With vSEC". Be sure to check out the webinar replay here: <bitly/UTM>
Mobile Security - 2015 Wrap-up and 2016 PredictionsSkycure
If you still think Mobile Security is a thing of the future--think again. Millions of mobile devices worldwide were exposed in 2015 to vulnerabilities and advanced cyber-attacks including: No iOS Zone, XcodeGhost, Stagefright and SwiftKey to name just a few. Given 2015’s ultra-active cyber-risk front, we are sure 2016 has much more in store. In this webinar, Yair Amit, CTO and Co-founder at Skycure, wraps-up the state of mobile security in 2015 and shares his predictions for 2016.
Is Your Vulnerability Management Program Keeping Pace With Risks?Skybox Security
To effectively reduce the risks of cyber attacks, comply with continuous monitoring requirements, and provide visibility to executives, organizations need to manage their vulnerabilities and associated risks continuously. This is required in order to match or exceed the daily rate of attacks.
Why bother to assess your risks every 90 days when new threats are unleashed every day?
See how you can:
• Transform vulnerability discovery from a ‘round robin’ schedule to continuous monitoring for vulnerabilities
• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability and potential business impact
• Focus remediation efforts and track progress to show a measurable reduction of risk
• Make vulnerability management an essential part of daily change management processes
These slides will include case studies, survey data, and best practices – ideal for IT security practitioners who are considering, or already implementing, next-generation vulnerability management to effectively and measurably mitigate risk.
Journey to the Cloud: Securing Your AWS Applications - April 2015Alert Logic
James Brown, Director of Cloud Computing & Security Architecture, Alert Logic covers:
• The shared security model: what security you are responsible for to protect your content, applications, systems and networks vs AWS.
• Overview of the OWASP Top 10 most critical web application security risks (such as SQL injections)
• Best practices for how to protect your environment from the latest threats
The Cloud offers great opportunity for disruption in the business world by offering ways to create, test, and deploy applications with greater reach and more simplicity than ever before. Come learn about the Cloud and how Rocket MV is helping you get SaaS-y with capabilities such as Account Based Licensing, RESTful APIs, and micro-services.
Automating Your Tools: How to Free Up Your Security Professionals for Actual ...Kevin Fealey
This presentation was given at the Techno Security & Forensics Investigations Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC on June 2, 2015.
Abstract:
Manual application security testing alone doesn't cut it anymore -- scanning with SAST, DAST, and IAST tools is necessary to achieve security at portfolio scale; but as agile development practices become more popular, tool-assisted security reviews used as gates to production become more disruptive and expensive. While development teams evolve toward continuous release and deployment, the security industry continues to use the same paradigms developed 15 years ago. If organizations hope to produce more secure code at DevOps speed, something has to change.
This session will describe how many of the application security tasks performed manually today can be automated to allow security professionals to look for novel security problems, rather than just low-hanging fruit. I'll explain 1) How open source and commercial tools can add value when integrated into the development lifecycle; 2) How using security tools as automated sensors can improve security visibility and provide real-time actionable intelligence; and 3) How automating simple security tasks can free up security teams to work on real security challenges. We'll also describe some common pitfalls when incorporating security into development, as well as real-world solutions learned from our work in this area over the past 6 years.
How to Predict, Detect and Protect Against Mobile Cyber AttacksSkycure
Watch webinar recording: http://hubs.ly/H01l56L0
Join Brian Katz, director of mobile strategy at VMware, and Varun Kohli, vice president at Skycure, discuss how to:
- Get visibility into ALL mobile threats, vulnerabilities and attacks impacting your organization today
- Integrate Skycure with AirWatch to predict, detect, and protect against mobile cyber attacks
- Stop attacks before they make it to the enterprise by profiling good and bad device, app and user behaviors by leveraging crowd wisdom
What problems are we exist between IT Security and Cyber Insurance?
Correlation between Cyber Maturity and Cyber Insurance
Why is this Urgent?
What You can Do Today to Reduce Risk?
Managing Effective Security Policies Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud EnvironmentAlgoSec
Enterprises are not only migrating applications to the cloud from on-premise data centers, but they are developing multi-cloud strategies to take advantage of availability and cost structures as well as to avoid vendor lock-in. In fact, IDC has predicted that more than 85% of IT organizations will commit to multi-cloud architectures already by the end of this year.
In complex, multi-cloud and hybrid environments, security teams need to understand which network flows and security controls impact application connectivity, including cloud-specific security controls (Network ACL and security groups) as well as virtual and physical firewalls that protect cloud resources. They need to manage policies that maintain their compliance posture across multiple clouds and hybrid environments.
In this webinar, Yitzy Tannenbaum, Product Marketing Manager at AlgoSec, will illuminate security-policy issues in multi-cloud and hybrid environments and show you how to achieve:
• Visibility across the multi-cloud network topology to ensure deployment of security controls that support network-segmentation architecture
• Uniform security policy across complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Automatic monitoring of multi-cloud and hybrid network-security configuration changes to analyze and
assess risk and to avoid compliance violations
• Instant generation of audit-ready reports for major regulations, including PCI, HIPAA, SOX and NERC, in the context of multi-cloud environments
• Automatic provisioning of application connectivity flows across a variety of security controls in hybrid environments
Black Duck & IBM Present: Application Security in the Age of Open SourceBlack Duck by Synopsys
Keeping applications secure, whether you're developing for internal use or for your customers, isn't easy. Today, applications are a mix of open source and custom code. Identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities in both requires the right tools and know-how. Black Duck and IBM are working together to help you keep your applications secure.
With mega-breaches like Anthem, OPM, IRS, Ashley Madison, UCLA Health and TalkTalk all within the past 12 months, chances are your data has been targeted. What does this mean for 2016?
Review this presentation and learn:
• Why cyber attacks continue to increase in sophistication, magnitude and velocity
• What trends will have the largest and smallest impact on cyber security in 2016
• Why cloud-based apps and the Internet of Things have transformed cyber security
• How you can protect your organization from attacks from the inside
Keeping Security In-Step with Your Application Demand CurveAmazon Web Services
Protecting dynamically scaled cloud compute resources can be challenging, especially for organizations that lack the time or money it takes to maintain dynamic security. Fortinet’s auto scaling security solution addresses this issue by providing the resources to help with deployment in order to optimize organizations’ AWS networks. Join the upcoming webinar hosted by Fortinet and AWS to learn how to leverage Fortinet for auto scaling complex security policies in your Amazon VPC. Fortinet has a broad set of capabilities that when combined with AWS services creates truly a complete security architecture.
Keeping Security In-Step with your Application Demand CurveAmazon Web Services
Protecting dynamically scaled cloud compute resources can be challenging, especially for organizations that lack the time or money it takes to maintain dynamic security. Fortinet’s auto scaling security solution addresses this issue by providing the resources to help with deployment in order to optimize organizations’ AWS networks. Join the upcoming webinar hosted by Fortinet and AWS to learn how to leverage Fortinet for auto scaling complex security policies in your Amazon VPC. Fortinet has a broad set of capabilities that when combined with AWS services creates truly a complete security architecture.
Secure Data GI - Delivering Contextual IntelligenceSkybox Security
Learn the steps to achieving complete security processes including early threat detection, real-time assessment, automation, and rapid response.
This was presentation was given with Skybox Security at Infosecurity Europe 2015.
Infosec 2014: Finding and Understanding the Risk Impact of Firewall ChangesSkybox Security
“Instead of six to ten days to analyze the impact of proposed firewall changes, with Skybox it takes six to ten minutes.”
- Jaswant Golan, Technical Security Officer, Hertfordshire County Council
If you struggle to understand the downstream risk impact of firewall changes, this is one presentation you don’t want to miss!
On Thursday 1 May, Hertfordshire County Council will present a case study on reducing risk, increasing network visibility and optimizing security management processes.
In addition to firewall change management and network visibility, Mansfield and Golan will share how risk analytics have changed the way they think about network security and vulnerabilities. No longer tied to manual analysis, the security team can focus on the big picture – reducing risk.
Featuring Dave Robinson, Senior IT Security Manager, Capita.
Robinson discusses how Capita used Skybox to enable complete network visibility, even finding devices that have never shown up with other security tools or searches. Robinson details how Capita uses Skybox for firewall optimization and clean up, policy compliance and firewall change management.
Lastly Robinson discusses how Capita is rolling out the Skybox risk analytics platform to reduce risk.
Capita Customer Management is the UK's largest customer management outsourcer, managing customers for clients for more than 40 years. Capita Customer Management partners with leading public and private organizations worldwide including O2, Google, British Gas, BMW, and William Hill.
Infosec 2014: Intelligence as a Service: The Future of Frontline SecuritySkybox Security
Featuring Marty Legg, Cloud Services Director SecureData
Security technology continues to change with expanding perimeters, massive data, and siloed solutions causing an all-out asymmetric battle! In the middle of it all, large organizations must ensure the highest security while up against ever changing technology, complex regulations, and the need for more specialists and more skills training across the board.
Today’s security landscape causes a strategic security conundrum. Security spend continues to rise … $9.6B in 2006; $22B in 2012; and by 2017 it’s estimated to hit more than $30B. And yet … 621 breaches were reported in the last 12 months, up 23 percent over the past 3 years.
So why are we not winning the battle?
RSA 2014: Non-Disruptive Vulnerability Discovery, Without Scanning Your NetworkSkybox Security
Skybox has a complete portfolio solving many common problems in enterprise cyber security. In the Vulnerability and Threat Management space we offer solutions that span the entire process of discovering and remediation vulnerabilities. Liran Chen from Skybox, will be showing how our scanless vulnerability discovery feature can make a huge impact on reducing risk in the enterprise.
Skybox has a complete portfolio solving many common problems in enterprise cyber security. Right now we’ll focus on Network Security Management, where the story is often about policy compliance. We offer several types of policy engines that can be used to show compliance with internal policies or external regulations. Before an organization attacks their compliance issues, sometimes they need to address the messiness of firewalls whose rules sets have grown organically over the years. Our Optimization and Cleanup tools help with that situation.
Lastly, once a company has their network in compliance, it’s certainly beneficial to keep it there, and that’s where change management becomes so important. I’ll demonstrate how integrating your change management workflow with Skybox’s analysis engine can produce clear ROI and risk reduction.
Infographic: Are You Keeping Pace with Security Risks?Skybox Security
Traditional vulnerability management is dependent on active scanners for vulnerability discovery, which can cause significant disruption to enterprise networks. In a large network with thousands of hosts, scans generate tens or hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities, presenting security analysts with an impossible prioritization task and elongating the vulnerability window of exposure by many weeks.
Skybox next-generation vulnerability management uses scanless vulnerability detection to continuously monitor the attack surface and critical vectors, feeding vulnerability data into automated risk-based prioritization and remediation. This allows security teams to remediate critical vulnerabilities immediately, sealing off vulnerabilities that could lead to intrusion or data breach at least 50 times faster compared to traditional vulnerability management processes.
Best Practice Next-Generation Vulnerability Management to Identify Threats, ...Skybox Security
Speaker: Gidi Chen, CEO & Founder Skybox Security
Infosec Europe 2013
In order to effectively reduce the risks of cyber-attacks, comply with continuous monitoring requirements, and provide visibility to executives, organizations need to manage their vulnerabilities and associated risks on an on-going basis. This is required in order to match or exceed the daily rate of attacks. Why bother to assess your risks every 90 days, if you are attacked daily, given your frequently changed infrastructure? The session will tackle next-generation vulnerability management strategies and best practices to: ensure that vulnerability data is current and accurate; prioritize based on risk to the business; develop a remediation strategy that works and make vulnerability management an essential part of daily change management processes.
• Understand how to link vulnerability discovery, risk-based prioritization, and remediation activities to effectively mitigate risks
• Have real-world examples of organizations that implemented vulnerability management best practices to effectively and measurably reduce risk
• Be armed with pragmatic steps to implement next-generation vulnerability management to eliminate risks and prevent cyber attacks
Out With the Old, In With the New – Reinvent and Justify Your 2013 Security S...Skybox Security
It’s a new era for IT security teams. Tasked with ensuring the success of business-changing IT initiatives from mobile and BYOD to virtualization and cloud services, CISOs are finding that existing security controls and processes create complexity instead of reducing risks. At the same time, highly publicized breaches and new forms of attacks have raised awareness of the business impact of cyber threats to the board level. It’s time for a hard look at your current security program. Can you demonstrate an effective security strategy that will protect your company’s vital services, systems and data?
Gidi Cohen challenges you to reinvent your security approach. More than offering just a few ideas, Cohen will examine why some popular security controls are no longer effective at minimizing risks, and explore proven next-generation techniques to increase your ability to see, measure, and gain control over business risks.
Presented by Gidi Cohen, CEO and Founder - Skybox Security at the CISO Summit in San Francisco, CA.
Transitioning to Next-Generation Firewall Management - 3 Ways to Accelerate t...Skybox Security
Speaker: Gidi Cohen, CEO and Founder – Skybox Security, Inc.
Whether you are planning a transition to next-gen firewalls or have already done so, maximizing your next-gen firewall investment is imperative. Yet, most enterprises experience common management challenges that can slow down deployments, complicate existing firewall operations processes, and delay use of the most advanced next-gen firewall features.
In this session, Gidi Cohen, CEO and founder of Skybox Security, shares customer case studies and research to illustrate these transition challenges and outline a phased approach to evaluate, adjust, and implement updated processes and tools so you can effectively manage your next-gen firewall deployment.
Is Your Vulnerability Management Program Irrelevant?Skybox Security
In this webcast, Scott Crawford from Enterprise Management Associates and Michelle Johnson Cobb of Skybox Security will discuss how to:
Link vulnerability discovery, risk-based prioritization, and remediation activities to effectively mitigate risks before exploitation.
Build a remediation strategy that addresses ‘unpatchable’ systems
Minimize change management headaches by anticipating unintended impacts due to system and application interdependencies.
Use metrics and key performance indicators (KPI’s) like remediation latency to track effectiveness of the vulnerability management program.
Anticipate and Prevent Cyber Attack Scenarios, Before They OccurSkybox Security
Presented at ISSA Cornerstones of Trust June 6, 2012.
No one wants to be the next cyber casualty. Collectively, organizations spend an enormous amount of resources deploying and managing security solutions to block malware, protect data, and keep critical business services operating.
Yet most organizations remain inadequately protected against evolving and dangerous cyber threats. In this session, we will learn to recognize common network attack scenarios and mitigate the combination of misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, access policy violations and other security gaps that can be exploited by sophisticated attackers.
High-profile breaches at Epsilon, Sony, and other enterprise and government networks have dominated the news lately, raising awareness of the need to design effective security strategies against sophisticated attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs). Many companies struggle with where to begin to develop an effective plan of cyber defense.
During this session we will walk the audience through several attack scenarios using a visual attack explorer tool, highlighting the combination of security gaps that are often used and how to prevent them. Network modeling, vulnerability analysis, access path analysis, and attack simulation will all be introduced and we will show how these analytical tools can be used to quickly and automatically find exposed areas of a network.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Infrastructure changes continue, disrupting the architecture, providers of network security and services
Cloud security expands, though not as fast
Mobile device protection expands, slowly
Security brokerage services to protect new infrastructure that’s hard to protect
Identity and access management
Instead of rights being granted based on company access to resources, they are based on the user
Which means that designing security around the user and user attributes will rise in importance
IoT
We don’t even know what this change will mean, except that we will probably be woefully unprepared for the impact
Monitoring, defense, and attack detection
The need for advanced visibility and intelligence increase as security teams shift from proactive security to detect and respond.
Security analytics rise in importance
Continuous compromise. There will continue to be an increase in advanced targeted attacks
that bypass traditional protection mechanisms and persist undetected for extended periods of
time. As a result, in all scenarios, systems and individuals must be considered compromised.
■ Financially motivated attacks. In most cases, these advanced targeted attacks against
enterprises and individuals are attempting to steal sensitive information — customer
information, credit card data, trade secrets, formulas, processes, plans, pricing and similar
intellectual property. In some cases, financial damage through critical system or business
process outages is the goal.
■ IT will lose control. IT increasingly will not directly own the user's device or the services they
consume, limiting its ability to place invasive controls. Consumerization and bring-your-owndesktop
programs combined with the increase in the use of cloud-based services create a
Gartner, computing environment where IT loses control of the consumption device and the services
being consumed.
Combined, these megatrends will create several shifts in information security organizations,
processes and strategies that we discuss in this research:
■ A shift up the stack to the protection of information rather than systems
■ A shift from control-centric to people-centric security
■ A shift in processes and spending toward continuous and pervasive monitoring
■ A shift toward the use of collective intelligence and reputation services
Everyone else (minus Agriculture, Construction, Mining, Real Estate)
Other notes from the source reports:
A study that estimated the global cost of cybercrime at $400 billion also revealed information security market trend data from research firm IDC showing a burgeoning market for products associated with identifying threats, data protection and incident response activities.
The report, issued this week by the Center For Strategic International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank, estimates the global cost of cybercrime at $400 billion and projects the figure to climb substantially until public- and private-sector organizations implement stronger measures to address intellectual property theft. The study, commissioned by Intel Security (formerly McAfee), also highlighted data from Framingham, Mass.-based research giant IDC, projecting a steep rise in spending on digital forensics tools, next-generation firewalls, and identity and access management software. The increased spending on security products may be having a negative impact on the global economy, the report found.
Source: Gartner
Source: Gartner
Source: Ahlm, 2015 The Impact of Data Center Transformation on Security
Firewalls – top of list as need for access control continues
IPS – or other network based threat detection
SIEM – must be able to factor in dynamic attributes
Inventory discovery and Vuln mgmt. – needs to know where and state of security for assets
GRC – compliance reporting must speak dynamic
Script:
In 2014, a group called the Center for Strategic and International studies in Washington DC released a report estimating the annual cost of cyber crime at 260B GBP ($400B USD). According to IDC, Gartner and other analyst firms –the worldwide spending on information security solutions in 2014 was 45B GBP ($70B USD). Both of these numbers have been climbing at extraordinary rates, toward 15% per year growth over the most recent time period. In fact, this unchecked growth in spending on security products, and the continued cyber crime costs may now be having an impact on the global economy.
Given all of this security spending and attention to the cyber problem, you would expect that defenders would have made substantial inroads into reducing the number of attacks, but this hasn’t shown to be true.
Instead, in this graph you see the most recent Verizon Data Breach report, indicating that the gap the time to compromise and the time to discover an attack is largely unchanged over 10 years! So attackers are still able to compromise networks in minutes or days, while defenders require weeks or months to discover, an attack, and even more time to analyze the incident, contain, and devise an effective plan of response.
Other notes from the source reports:
A study that estimated the global cost of cybercrime at $400 billion also revealed information security market trend data from research firm IDC showing a burgeoning market for products associated with identifying threats, data protection and incident response activities.
The report, issued this week by the Center For Strategic International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank, estimates the global cost of cybercrime at $400 billion and projects the figure to climb substantially until public- and private-sector organizations implement stronger measures to address intellectual property theft. The study, commissioned by Intel Security (formerly McAfee), also highlighted data from Framingham, Mass.-based research giant IDC, projecting a steep rise in spending on digital forensics tools, next-generation firewalls, and identity and access management software. The increased spending on security products may be having a negative impact on the global economy, the report found.
First, you need to make sure all of your devices are configured – according to security best practices, according to vendor recommended configurations.
Problem 2: And you have lots of vendors. Devices that speak different languages, or require the Cisco expert, or the Juniper expert to be on hand to deciper what’s what.
Even if the device configurations are maintained to meet Control 10, the sheer size or complexity, or both, of most enterprise networks makes analysis of device configurations, rules, and changes a complex nightmare.
And you need to keep up with changes – changes that may impact compliance with policy, or interfere with intended protection. Are IPS signatures up to date? What’s the impact of a new vulnerability?
Logical checks on a device by device basis aren’t enough, because it’s a complex system we are talking about. A necessary firewall rule can be shadowed by other rules, an improperly configured device can render your segmentation strategy ineffective.
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
But how do you make a picture of the attack surface?
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
But how do you make a picture of the attack surface?
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
But how do you make a picture of the attack surface?
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
But how do you make a picture of the attack surface?
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
But how do you make a picture of the attack surface?
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
The charts on the main page of the Vulnerability Center show the Skybox Vulnerability Index. This Index is a measurement that gives an indication of both the scale and severity of vulnerabilities affecting an enterprise organization at a point in time. The Skybox Vulnerability Index has no upper bound, and there is no maximum number of vulnerabilities.
The Vulnerability Index is calculated daily from a summation of factors assigned to every vulnerability reported in the Skybox Vulnerability Database in a preceding time window. The default time window is 90 days, relevant for an organization with a 90-day vulnerability management cycle from assessment to remediation. The Index can be customized to a 30-day or 180-day rolling time window, allowing organizations to see the impact of faster or slower resolution cycles on overall risk.
Vulnerability severity is used as a weighting factor, so 10 new critical vulnerabilities would influence the Vulnerability Index more than 10 new low or medium severity vulnerabilities. All vulnerabilities added to the Index are assigned a severity index between 0 and 1, with 1 indicating critical vulnerabilities.
The charts on the main page of the Vulnerability Center show the Skybox Vulnerability Index. This Index is a measurement that gives an indication of both the scale and severity of vulnerabilities affecting an enterprise organization at a point in time. The Skybox Vulnerability Index has no upper bound, and there is no maximum number of vulnerabilities.
The Vulnerability Index is calculated daily from a summation of factors assigned to every vulnerability reported in the Skybox Vulnerability Database in a preceding time window. The default time window is 90 days, relevant for an organization with a 90-day vulnerability management cycle from assessment to remediation. The Index can be customized to a 30-day or 180-day rolling time window, allowing organizations to see the impact of faster or slower resolution cycles on overall risk.
Vulnerability severity is used as a weighting factor, so 10 new critical vulnerabilities would influence the Vulnerability Index more than 10 new low or medium severity vulnerabilities. All vulnerabilities added to the Index are assigned a severity index between 0 and 1, with 1 indicating critical vulnerabilities.
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
Different version script:
Presentation Notes:
After talking about likelihood, it’s a good segue into the attack simulation slide.
This slide shows how we calculate that likelihood. We start with the network map bringing vulnerabilities; we model threat origins, virtual bad guys … not only inside the network, but outside the network as well, as such as rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and especially compromised work statement.
Customer often want to understand what’s the reachability of a compromised work statement, so if an employee downloads malware, what kind of reachability would they have inside the network? Skybox can determine that with the threat modeling.
May want to point out that this happens on the network model – not on the live network. It can be confused with penetration testing.
When Skybox finds an attack that completely compromises the host, it will start the attack simulation all over again from that compromised host, which allows us to see the difference between directly exposed vulnerabilities and indirectly exposed vulnerabilities.
Script:
This slide shows how our attack simulation works. We start with that network model containing layer 3 devices.
<advance>
On top of this model we add vulnerability scan data taken from a customer’s vulnerability scanner. From this data we pull assets and match them up with critical assets imported during the deployment phase. Then we model Threat Origins. These are virtual bad guys and are places at ingress points of the network as well as inside to model things like rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and compromised workstations.
Then we do attack simulation. From every one of the threat origins we try to exploit every vulnerability on every asset we know about by seeing if the data necessary to exploit the vulnerability can be moved from the threat origin through the network past firewalls and IPSs to the asset. Every time one of those simulated attacks is successful, we assign risk. This risk can be viewed from the perspective of the Threat Origins, the Assets themselves or the Vulnerabilities.
As you can probably imagine this is an immense amount of calculation, especially in an global enterprise environment. Skybox’s patented algorithms (Can I say that?) allow our customers to enjoy the fastest analysis rate in the industry.
Old script for attack simulation:
Presentation Notes:
After talking about likelihood, it’s a good segue into the attack simulation slide.
This slide shows how we calculate that likelihood. We start with the network map bringing vulnerabilities; we model threat origins, virtual bad guys … not only inside the network, but outside the network as well, as such as rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and especially compromised work statement.
Customer often want to understand what’s the reachability of a compromised work statement, so if an employee downloads malware, what kind of reachability would they have inside the network? Skybox can determine that with the threat modeling.
May want to point out that this happens on the network model – not on the live network. It can be confused with penetration testing.
When Skybox finds an attack that completely compromises the host, it will start the attack simulation all over again from that compromised host, which allows us to see the difference between directly exposed vulnerabilities and indirectly exposed vulnerabilities.
Script:
This slide shows how our attack simulation works. We start with that network model containing layer 3 devices.
<advance>
On top of this model we add vulnerability scan data taken from a customer’s vulnerability scanner. From this data we pull assets and match them up with critical assets imported during the deployment phase. Then we model Threat Origins. These are virtual bad guys and are places at ingress points of the network as well as inside to model things like rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and compromised workstations.
Then we do attack simulation. From every one of the threat origins we try to exploit every vulnerability on every asset we know about by seeing if the data necessary to exploit the vulnerability can be moved from the threat origin through the network past firewalls and IPSs to the asset. Every time one of those simulated attacks is successful, we assign risk. This risk can be viewed from the perspective of the Threat Origins, the Assets themselves or the Vulnerabilities.
As you can probably imagine this is an immense amount of calculation, especially in an global enterprise environment. Skybox’s patented algorithms (Can I say that?) allow our customers to enjoy the fastest analysis rate in the industry.
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
Different version script:
Presentation Notes:
After talking about likelihood, it’s a good segue into the attack simulation slide.
This slide shows how we calculate that likelihood. We start with the network map bringing vulnerabilities; we model threat origins, virtual bad guys … not only inside the network, but outside the network as well, as such as rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and especially compromised work statement.
Customer often want to understand what’s the reachability of a compromised work statement, so if an employee downloads malware, what kind of reachability would they have inside the network? Skybox can determine that with the threat modeling.
May want to point out that this happens on the network model – not on the live network. It can be confused with penetration testing.
When Skybox finds an attack that completely compromises the host, it will start the attack simulation all over again from that compromised host, which allows us to see the difference between directly exposed vulnerabilities and indirectly exposed vulnerabilities.
Script:
This slide shows how our attack simulation works. We start with that network model containing layer 3 devices.
<advance>
On top of this model we add vulnerability scan data taken from a customer’s vulnerability scanner. From this data we pull assets and match them up with critical assets imported during the deployment phase. Then we model Threat Origins. These are virtual bad guys and are places at ingress points of the network as well as inside to model things like rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and compromised workstations.
Then we do attack simulation. From every one of the threat origins we try to exploit every vulnerability on every asset we know about by seeing if the data necessary to exploit the vulnerability can be moved from the threat origin through the network past firewalls and IPSs to the asset. Every time one of those simulated attacks is successful, we assign risk. This risk can be viewed from the perspective of the Threat Origins, the Assets themselves or the Vulnerabilities.
As you can probably imagine this is an immense amount of calculation, especially in an global enterprise environment. Skybox’s patented algorithms (Can I say that?) allow our customers to enjoy the fastest analysis rate in the industry.
Script: (click through first 5 builds – last one is Threat Actors)
Explain layer by layer the information that is needed to address the previous questions.
Massive amount of data to correlate and combinations of factors to consider
Complex, heterogeneous data - the average CISO reports 50-70 information security tools in use, all contributing to the understanding of the attack surface
Fast-changing
Network context sensitive
Time context sensitive
This is a model of the attack surface. For an organization of any size, being able to see the attack surface is an amazing help to understand and respond to security incidents.
(last click) The attack surface is the sum of all reachable and exploitable attack vectors against an organization’s network.
Having visibility and intelligence of the attack surface is a real benefit to security teams. It allows them to compare event information to the attack surface in real time - - is it a real attack? Is there an attack vector to this important asset? What’s the next step in an attack?
Different version script:
Presentation Notes:
After talking about likelihood, it’s a good segue into the attack simulation slide.
This slide shows how we calculate that likelihood. We start with the network map bringing vulnerabilities; we model threat origins, virtual bad guys … not only inside the network, but outside the network as well, as such as rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and especially compromised work statement.
Customer often want to understand what’s the reachability of a compromised work statement, so if an employee downloads malware, what kind of reachability would they have inside the network? Skybox can determine that with the threat modeling.
May want to point out that this happens on the network model – not on the live network. It can be confused with penetration testing.
When Skybox finds an attack that completely compromises the host, it will start the attack simulation all over again from that compromised host, which allows us to see the difference between directly exposed vulnerabilities and indirectly exposed vulnerabilities.
Script:
This slide shows how our attack simulation works. We start with that network model containing layer 3 devices.
<advance>
On top of this model we add vulnerability scan data taken from a customer’s vulnerability scanner. From this data we pull assets and match them up with critical assets imported during the deployment phase. Then we model Threat Origins. These are virtual bad guys and are places at ingress points of the network as well as inside to model things like rogue administrators, disgruntled employees and compromised workstations.
Then we do attack simulation. From every one of the threat origins we try to exploit every vulnerability on every asset we know about by seeing if the data necessary to exploit the vulnerability can be moved from the threat origin through the network past firewalls and IPSs to the asset. Every time one of those simulated attacks is successful, we assign risk. This risk can be viewed from the perspective of the Threat Origins, the Assets themselves or the Vulnerabilities.
As you can probably imagine this is an immense amount of calculation, especially in an global enterprise environment. Skybox’s patented algorithms (Can I say that?) allow our customers to enjoy the fastest analysis rate in the industry.