[FireEye]MIRcon 2013 – Day 2 Highlights

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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,
        addressing the current cybersecurity threat landscape and
        promising developments in technology and policy         class="size-medium wp-image-5310   "
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          alt="MIRcon Keynote General Michael Hayden"
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          width="300" height="200" />MIRcon Keynote General Michael Hayden

   
• 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,
        balanced network of defenses         class="size-medium wp-image-5311  "
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          alt="Panel Session at MIRcon 213"
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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

 

To read highlights from the first day of MIRcon,       title="MIRcon 2013 - Day 1 Highlights"
      href="https://www.mandiant.com/blog/mircon-2013-day-1-highlights/"
      target="_blank">click here.

If you'd like to add your
    name to sign up for news on MIRcon 2014, you can do that here:       href="http://www.mandiant.com/mircon"
    target="_blank">www.mandiant.com/mircon. Look for a more
    in-depth summary of MIRcon next week and thoughts on the conference
    from a few of our speakers. Until next year!

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