[FireEye]MIRcon 2013 – Day 1 Highlights

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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
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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
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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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