MIRcon 2013 – Day 1 Highlights
Happy Day 2 of href="http://www.mandiant.com/events/mircon/"
target="_blank">MIRcon®! Yesterday, Mandiant's CEO
Kevin Mandia kicked off MIRcon 2013 with a keynote on attacking the
security gap, discussing the necessity of information-sharing and
his experience witnessing the evolution of cybercrime. From there we
moved on to thought-provoking discussions in both our management and
technical tracks.
In case you missed it, here are some of the
highlights:
- Dan Scali's discussion of Zero Days at Zero
Hour, which addressed vulnerability awareness in
Industrial Control Systems, the
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challenges in managing vulnerabilities, and what the security
industry must do to manage the threat
- Eric Hutchins' talk about iPython, a web-based
interactive computing platform that combines code, text and
analytics while providing the ability to load and interact with
data in a seamless way
- A discussion on Practical Incidence Response
Metrics - from template writing to implementation, and
how to document, quantify and collect incident response activities
One Step Ahead - a talk about rapid live
response, as utilized by Mandiant Managed Defense analysts
Attack-Driven Defense - a discussion on using
real-world attack behaviors - and an offensive mindset - to
develop new network defense techniques
Hackmaggedon - Paolo Passeri's discussion of what
he's seen through several years spent observing patriotic and
hacktivist attacks through his hackmageddon.com project
- Jenn Kolde's lively discussion on Zen and The Art of
Threat Intelligence, which defined threat intelligence
and explained its importance to effective and efficient network defense
- Our Covering Cyber Panel Discussion with
several of the nation's most respected cybersecurity reporters on
the challenges in reporting security news, their perspective on
recent NSA leaks and the intersection of surveillance news with
cybersecurity news
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- Our closing keynote from former FBI Director Robert
Mueller, who discussed how the FBI adapted to adjust to
recent cyber threats and how law enforcement must continue to evolve.
Stay tuned to this space as we'll have more conference highlights
tomorrow!
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