Houston Tech-Security Conference

Toby Richardson

Advanced Cyber Threats: Defending Against Botnets, Advanced Malware and Persistent Attacks

Today’s Cyber Threats

• Botnets, advanced malware, persistent attacks
• What’s different?
• The business of cyber threats: DIY malware kits, criminal networks, organizations
• The lifecycle of advanced malware and why they are hard to detect
• Command-and-control aspects of malware

Taking Back Command-and-Control

• How to Defend and Protect
• CnC Communications

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Mark Rodriguez, Systems Engineer– Southwest Region

Securing Administrative Passwords

Identity Management Tools, such as Single Sign-On and Directories are examples of important building blocks in any organization's Identity Management infrastructure. However, these tools are only geared towards individual users. An additional solution for privileged users should be deployed to complement the Identity Management Infrastructure.

Cyber-Ark’s Suite of products can manage Identity Management for Privileged Accounts by providing:

• Frequent and automatic password changes of shared privileged accounts
• Strong auditing of privileged passwords usage to ensure accountability
• Secured long term storage and automatic failover to eliminate risks of loss and to ensure availability during disaster recovery
• Removing clear text passwords embedded in scripts, and automatically changing them according to corporate policy

Paul Lavery

Managed File Transfer: Insights and Best Practices

In this session you will learn about the many aspects of securing file transfers both internally and with partners and customers.

Learn what organizations have done in the past to transfer files

• What is FTP, and why it is ubiquitous and a problem
• Understanding Managed File Transfer
• A look at things we do today to move files for differing reasons
  

Understand the reasons organizations transfer files through patterns of file transfer

• Application integration
• Multi-site integration
• Business to business communication
• Portal based file transfers
• Human to human ad-hoc transfers
  

Discover best practices for creating solutions that securely satisfy your organizations file transfer needs

• Creating architectures that provide confidentiality, integrity and availability for transfers
• Building a flexible platform that satisfies multiple file transfer patterns
• Providing governance of file transfers through visibility and control of transfers
• Creating a solution that is operationally efficient

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Stephen Gates

Is your Network Really Protected? How to Proactively Protect Against Network Threats in 2011 and Beyond

Learn How to Protect Your Enterprise Network and Meet Compliancy Requirements

• This presentation will discuss real-world network threats facing organizations in 2011 and beyond.
• You'll learn critical steps to protect against the new generation of threats and help meet compliancy requirements.

Discover How Intrusion Prevention System Technology Can Fill the Gaps

• Discover how traditional "Perimeter Defense" strategies can leave your network vulnerable to the next generation of threats.
• Understand how Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) technology has evolved to protect against the newest threats.

See "Cyber Attack and Defense Demo" Showing the Power of IPS

• Visual demonstration of how a system can be completely compromised while being "protected" by a Firewall.
• How Top Layer's IPS 5500 can block the attack and subsequent compromise