MIRcon 2013 – Day 2 Highlights
Thanks for another wonderful href="https://www.mandiant.com/events/mircon/"
target="_blank">MIRcon®, everyone! It's been an
honor to bring together so many leading minds in cybersecurity, and
to foster conversations about what we can all do to safeguard the
information and innovationson which so much of us rely on. The
second and final day of MIRcon 2013 featured many great discussions,
including these highlights:
- A keynote from General Michael Hayden,
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- A technical-track discussion led by Nick Pelletier on using the
oft-unused scripting functionality of Wireshark Network
Protocol Analyzer to aid network traffic analysis
- A management-track discussion on the challenges and gray areas
of Digital Security Policy with Kristen Verderame
of Pondera International, Stewart Baker of Steptoe & Johnson
LLP, Tom Corcoran, professional staff member of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Josh Alexander,
professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, Paul Rosenzweig of Red Branch Consulting
- A management-track discussion with Wade Woolwine on
maximizing return - and avoiding common
pitfalls - with managed security service providers (MSSPs)
- Jason Wood from Secure Ideas, speaking on using
ModSecurity to analyze Web app Attacks
- A management-track talk from Lhadon Tethong of Tibet
Action Institute on defending against state-sponsored
attacks, and the approaches they take to protect the Tibetan
community and their computer networks from China-based attacks
- Daniel Beck and Peter Smith's technical-track discussion,
Walking the Wire - best practices for a robust,
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width="300" height="200" />Panel Session at MIRcon 2013
- Rohyt Belani's management-track discussion on training
and leveraging employees so that they become security assets
- Liam Randall of Broala, who presented on our technical-track
about using the Bro Platform to analyze,
understand and secure embedded and ICS networks
- A discussion with Fernando Mejía and Dr. Eleazar Aguirre Anaya
of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, with a technical-track
presentation on security incident handling on mobile devices
- Our annual discussion with Lisa Branco of CEB and Jake Sommer of
ZwillGen PLLC on legal issues and obligations for
those in the incident detection and response field
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