Data Connectors is proud to host the Dallas Virtual Cybersecurity Summit.

TPRM 2.0: How to Reduce the Burden of Vendor Risk Assessments

You spend countless hours assessing your vendors, stuck in spreadsheets, trying to sift through last year’s emails to find the right vendor contact and the most up-to-date questionnaire. And when assessments are finally completed (which can take months), you still need to review and validate the answers, as well as mitigate any identified risks.

As your program evolves, the need to simplify the vendor risk assessment process becomes unavoidable. So, what can you do to streamline assessment completion and simplify vendor risk reviews? In this webinar, we’ll outline the latest vendor risk assessment tips and tactics that you can implement to build a more efficient third-party risk management practice.

Key points:

• How you can save hours on vendor risk assessments
• How you can leverage inherent risks and tiered assessments
• How Cyber Risk Exchanges are reinventing the assessment process

Speaker’s Bio:

Emily Couch serves as a Third-Party Risk Consultant for OneTrust Vendorpedia – a purpose-built software designed to operationalize third-party risk management. In her role, Couch advises companies throughout their third-party risk management implementations to help meet requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG, GDPR and CCPA). Couch works with clients to centralize their third-party information across business units, assess risks and performance, and monitor threats throughout the entire third-party relationship, from onboarding to offboarding.

Developing Your Identity Strategy

Remember when identity management meant creating new accounts and resetting user’s passwords? Over the years, digital identity has evolved into much, MUCH more. Your identity program now includes not just identity management, but also access management, privilege management, and even customer identity management, all of this falling under the umbrella of identity governance. More importantly, identity has shifted from being a basic operations function to the cornerstone for business enablement and digital transformation. In this presentation, Jerod walks you through key considerations when developing your identity strategy to help you improve the current state of your program while building a solid foundation for the future of your identity program.

Speaker’s Bio:

By day, Jerod Brennen (@slandail) is a storyteller, teacher, speaker, advisor, and security architect.

By night, he’s a husband, father, writer, filmmaker, martial artist, musician, and gamer. It’s fair to say that he’s earned every gray hair in his beard, having spent his career fulfilling infosec roles in consulting, higher education, retail, and public utilities.

Jerod loves to share what he’s learned over the years every chance he gets: at local and regional professional meetings, at larger conferences, and online via blogs and podcasts. He has published multiple online information security courses with Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning, and he also teaches courses in person, both domestically and internationally.

At the end of the day, Jerod just wants to help folks get one step closer to doing what they want to do securely

Achieving Secure Remote Access with RDP

With so many employees sheltering in place due to the coronavirus, enterprises with Windows are depending on VPNs and Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). However, while this allows employees to access company apps and files, using VPN and RDP surfaces other, longer-lasting problems. Adopting additional security measures can help. Check out this session to learn how; by providing a layer of security over all RDP servers under management, isolating hosts from the Internet, effectively eliminating the application attack surface.

Speaker’s Bio:

Gil Azrielant is co-founder and CTO of Axis Security. Gil is responsible for technology strategy and the development of the company’s cloud-based zero-trust application access platform. Prior to joining Axis Security, Gil was co-founder & CTO of Cool Cousin, a cloud-based platform for travelers looking to unlock outstanding travel experiences.

Gil’s cybersecurity career began in the elite Unit 8200 of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps, where he worked on advanced cyber security and code decryption. He served five years inside this elite unit, working as a researcher and team leader.
Gil holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and graduated magna cum laude from IDC Herzliya, one of Israel’s leading academic institutions.

Credential Harvesting As a Service: How this Dark Web Organization Steals Your Microsoft Credentials Presentation 

In this presentation, we will analyze the attack methods of a single advanced persistent threat organization that guarantees its dark-web customers that their messages will bypass Microsoft security. We will review the software they use to send email from anywhere in the world, their techniques that take advantage of both short- and long-lived vulnerabilities and the infrastructure to harvest credentials and perform attacks almost instantaneously. You will be surprised by the sophistication of the tools as well as their ease of use. Updated regularly with release notes and training videos, they are not ‘hackers’, so much as software developers with a very clear product offer: 100% access to your inbox. We will watch them over time and show how the tricks they use provide us with the indicators-of-attack we need to stop them.

Lunch / Solutions Showcase Open

The U.S. Secret Service will discuss their role in defending our critical financial infrastructure, and also discuss the USSS’s role in responding to financial threats during the COVID 19 virus.

Vision of Cyber Security

We are on the verge of entering our 4th industrial revolution: the era of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is a broad term that comes to describe physical devices, embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and network connectivity – all capable of collecting and exchanging data with other devices. The direct communications and data sharing between devices – among themselves or directly with various cloud services – are aimed to shorten development cycles, reduce energy consumption, enable precise view of a device status, and to streamline business process with higher efficiency.

This revolution has already impacted various industries including healthcare, automotive, industrial control systems, transportation and smart homes. Due to the wide variety of attacks on IoT, there is a need for a substantial granularity while managing the security policies of these devices. IoT delivers the promise of becoming the next industrial revolution, and driving the next generation of efficiency and productivity. But this revolution will not flourish unless cyber security becomes one of its corner stones.

Speaker’s Bio:

Joel Hollenbeck is a Cyber Security Visionary with the Office of the CTO at Check Point Software Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. His background includes over 20 years of experience deploying application protection and network-based security. Mr. Hollenbeck has been securing networks and systems since 1994, including developing and executing on strategies to connect some of the most sensitive networks for the Federal Government and Financial Institutions to the Internet in the earliest days of commercial internet connectivity. Mr. Hollenbeck has served as a consulting Security Architect with Check Point Software Technologies advising a wide variety of clients across many verticals on Security Best Practices, Security Architecture, and deriving the maximum value from investments in security, prior to joining Check Point, Mr. Hollenbeck has held various security engineering, leadership and executive roles within organizations local to St Louis.

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