[FireEye]MIRcon 2014 – Day 1 Highlights

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MIRcon 2014 – Day 1 Highlights

 

The first day of       href="http://www.mandiant.com/mircon2014"
      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
          href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mircon">#MIRcon hashtag
    on Twitter.

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