MIRcon 2014 – Day 1 Highlights
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title="MIRcon 2014">MIRcon 2014 is officially done and was
packed with thought-provoking keynotes, presentations and a
one-of-a-kind reception. While there's too much to fit into this
blog post, I wanted to provide you with some of the highlights:
- FireEye's COO, Kevin Mandia kicked-off MIRcon and
was accompanied by FireEye CEO, Dave DeWalt and FireEye
CTO, Dave Merkel. - Matt Graeber's Analysis of
Malicious Security Support Provider DLLs gave attendees a
technical overview of SSPs, installation procedures, and detection
guidance. - Brian Finch covered cyber security from a legal
perspective in his talk on The Past As Prologue - Potential
Theories Of Liability Following A Cyber Attack. - A
roundtable made up of the industry's leading journalists from the
Wall Street Journal, POLITICO and Bloomberg
covered the biggest stories of the last 12 months and some of
their favorite interviews. - Shannon Lietz and Shrikant
Raman discussed how Intuit and Mandiant secured a major migration
of customer applications to the cloud in their talk To Cloud Or
Not To Cloud: Enterprise Cloud Security via Devsecops.
- Mandiant consultant Matt Hastings went over how attackers can
enable and abuse PowerShell in his session Investigating
PowerShell Attacks. - The closing keynote from
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, USA (Ret.) provided a look into
the past, present and future of cyber security and how to get the
C-level involved as awareness continues to grow.
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Stay tuned to
this space as we'll have more conference highlights tomorrow! You
can also view live highlights from the conference by following the
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on Twitter.
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