Managing Global Organizational Resilience During Crisis: Lessons Learned

Bob Varnadoe, CISO, NCR

A Fortune 500 company with 36,000 employees around the world, NCR Corporation is a global enterprise technology provider for the banking, retail and hospitality industries. To maintain consistent operations while safely transitioning employees to working from home, the organization mapped out its plans at a safe and rapid pace. Join us for this session as we explore lessons learned about organizational resilience during crisis, getting through supply chain challenges, and creating a secure technology environment for a global workforce safely transitioning to work from home.

Protecting Your Windows Perimeter: How to Keep Threats at Bay

Preston Gralla, Contributing Editor, Computerworld, IDG Communications, Inc.
Ken Mingis, Executive Editor, Computerworld, IDG Communications. Inc.

Because it’s so ubiquitous in the enterprise, Windows almost always has a big, fat bulls-eye on its back. But there are concrete steps companies can take to make sure their Windows environment is secure. Computerworld Windows expert Preston Gralla talks with Executive Editor Ken Mingis in detail about exactly what enterprises can do to keep their PCs, servers and networks out of trouble.

Credential Stuffing Attacks: How to mitigate with Auth0

Jamie Hughes, Lead Solutions Engineer, AuthO

As a central authentication service that processes billions of logins a month, credential stuffing attacks are the most common threats we observe. These attacks can lead to fraud, loss of reputation, and ultimately, loss of revenue.

In credential stuffing attacks, threat actors use stolen credentials from one breach to takeover users’ other accounts. This is effective because 65% of people reuse passwords across multiple accounts, according to Google. On some days, these attacks originate from more than 50,000 IP addresses and may account for as much as half of all login attempts using our platform. Even the most mature companies are vulnerable if they don’t have the right preventative measures in place.

Securing the New Normal: How Cyber AI Learns on the Job

Justin Fier, Director, Cyber Intelligence & Analysis, Darktrace

The future of work remains unpredictable and uncertain. More than ever before, business leaders need to remain confident that their operations can continue securely in the face of global or even regional crises, and while sections of the economy are slowly re-opening, cyber-attackers are ramping up their campaigns.

As businesses look set to rely on cloud and SaaS tools for the long term, our digital environments are going to be more dynamic than ever. Yet organizations are finding themselves undergoing a delicate balancing act—each new work practice and technology that is introduced also brings unforeseen risk. Static, legacy approaches have become redundant, both unintelligent and ill-equipped to adapt.

Organizations must rethink their approach to security, and rely on new technologies like AI to achieve much-needed adaptability and resilience. Darktrace is the world leader in cyber AI technology, and leverages unsupervised machine learning to seamlessly adapt and integrate into changing environments, and to detect and respond to attacks in the earliest moments.

In the face of an uncertain present and future, Cyber AI enables businesses to continue communicating, operating, and innovating.

Practical DevSecOps Guardrails that Enable Safer Innovation

Eric Mumford, Enterprise Architect, Homesite Insurance
Tom Sweet, VP, IT Solutions, GM Financial
Isaac Sacolick, Contributing Editor, InfoWorld, IDG Communications, Inc.

DevOps catalyzed collaboration between Dev and Ops teams to drive more frequent and reliable application releases and innovations. Despite all the right intentions, testing, security, and monitoring practices often fell to second priorities as many DevOps organizations focused on automation with CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). COVID-19 has reminded organizations that driving recklessly fast isn’t the answer and that resilient organizations require DevSecOps to establish guardrails for safer and fast innovation. Hear from DevSecOps leaders who are instrumenting proactive testing, security, and monitoring practices in their organizations.

What CISOs Need to Know About Protecting Employee COVID-19 Health Data

Enza Iannopollo, Senior Analyst, Forrester
Marcus Vass, Partner, Osborne Clark
Dan Swinhoe, UK Editor, CSO Online, IDG Communications, Inc.

As companies begin to reopen, many are looking at tracking coronavirus-related health data of their employees. This sensitive data presents additional risk for CISOs, and needs to be secured carefully. Forrester Senior Analyst Enza Iannopollo, and Marcus Vass, partner at law Osborne Clarke leading the Digital Health team, discuss what CISOs should bear in mind around securing this new dataset.

Ransomware: How it Evolves, How to Fight It

Lucian Constantin, Senior Writer, CSO Online, IDG Communications, Inc.
Ken Mingis, Executive Editor, Computerworld, IDG Communications, Inc.

Ransomware never goes away; it just evolves. That’s the main message from CSO security reporter Lucian Costantin, who talks with Computerworld Executive Editor Ken Mingis about the latest tactics used by bad actors hoping to extract a little – or a lot – of cash from the companies they threaten. Costantin details how companies can go about beefing up security to keep threats out. And if worse comes to worse and corporate data is in danger from an attack, he explains what corporate execs should do.

Remote Access: How to Trust Untrustworthy Devices

Juliet Beauchamp, Video Content Producer, IDG Communications, Inc.
Lucian Constantin, Senior Writer, CSO Online, IDG Communications, Inc.

The transition to managing a remote workforce happened virtually overnight. With it came the challenge of managing employees’ security while they work on their home networks and sometimes on their personal devices. Traditional VPN solutions can be expensive and not always the most secure way to manage traffic coming into corporate servers. CSO senior writer Lucian Constantin discusses why zero-trust framework and mesh VPNs can be effective tools for IT teams to deploy to remote workers.