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RSAC 2021

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Analyzing Windows Malware on Linux: Getting Started Tips and ExamplesLenny Zeltser40m
Shows step‑by‑step Linux-first malware triage using REMnux with a real sample.exe (SHA‑256 provided), starting with TrID/file and ClamAV that flags it as…
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Top Active Directory Attacks: Understand, then Prevent and DetectJeff McJunkin40m
Covers concrete AD failures and fixes: email phishing causes 90%+ breaches, internal access plus privileges lets attackers win fast (example: 65 minutes to…
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A Case Study of the Capital One Data BreachAnchises Moraes, Nelson Novaes Neto40m
Technical postmortem of the 2019 Capital One breach maps attacker steps (SSRF against a misconfigured WAF, stolen internal creds, exfiltration from ~700 S3…
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Death to CIA! Long live DIE! How the DIE Triad Helps Us Achieve ResiliencySounil Yu40m
Argues that prioritizing the DIE triad (Distributed, Immutable, Ephemeral) instead of CIA makes attacks irrelevant rather than merely detectable, and shows…
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Cyber Resilience: Say What?Kristy Westphal40m
Cyber resilience means measurable ability to recover from attacks: examples cited include Zoom’s credential stuffing and exposed passwords, a ransomware…
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What's New with the CIS Controls v8Russell Eubanks, Randy Marchany40m
Version 8 condenses the previous 20 controls into 18 controls, elevates data discovery and protection to control 3: data protection, and adds a dedicated cloud…
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Cloud Threat Modeling - from Architecture Design to Application DevelopmentRandall Brooks, Jon-Michael Brook40m
Threat modeling for cloud systems aims to identify the actual attack surface and prioritize defenses using concrete artifacts: Microsoft Threat Modeling and…
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Cybersecurity Metrics Development for Board and Risk Committee ReportingRichard White40m
Shows how 300–350 raw metrics are condensed into a vetted set mapped to cost, maturity, risk and explains a repeatable timeline: assess for two weeks, draft…
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CVSS Scores Are Dead. Let’s Explore 4 AlternativesAllan Liska40m
CVSS is a snapshot, not a risk score, so teams drown in alerts: public counts rise from 6,000→18,000/year and Microsoft advisories from 400→1,500 (2016–2020)…
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Quantum Computing: One Weird Trick to Break RSA EncryptionAnastasia Marchenkova40m
Claim: Shor's algorithm can reduce factoring of RSA-sized keys from trillions of years classically to about 100 seconds on a large fault-tolerant quantum…
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Windows Kernel Patch Protection - Achilles Heel: PatchGuardArush Agarampur40m
Claims a reproducible design flaw in Windows Kernel Patch Protection that lets kernel code disable PatchGuard’s crash response by hooking kernel memset and…
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FAIR Controls: A New Kind of Controls FrameworkJack Jones40m
A new controls framework called FAIR-CAM models controls as interconnected loss event/variance/decision controls with granular functions—avoidance, deterrence…
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Tool Time: Building Your Cybersecurity Architecture Planning ToolboxEd Moyle, Diana Kelley40m
Recommends a practical, repeatable architecture process that uses free/open-source tools (with a licensing caveat for Eramba) to measure effectiveness…
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Android Rootkits: Analysis from Userland and KernellandDinesh Venkatesan, Aditi Bhatnagar40m
Tooling and results: a userland rootkit uses LD_PRELOAD to hide an app icon and a .so loaded from /data; the team builds Smart Alec (Frida-based) to capture…
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Infosec Makeover: Love it or Leave it, Product Security is Here to StayJen Trahan, Wiktor Szymański40m
Claims measurement finds 19% of Fortune 100 actively hiring product security and about 50% of mainstream tech recruiting roles; product security maps…
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The Rise of the BISO RoleManuel Chowrimootoo40m
Created a BISO practice from scratch inside a telecom: launches a service catalog, runs a “cyber roadshow” to 20+ teams, and builds intake (mailbox → Excel…
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WPA3 – Advancements in Wireless SecurityStephen Orr40m
Wi‑Fi Certified devices must support WPA3 since July 1, 2020, and new features include Enhanced Open (OWE) which adds unauthenticated encryption to stop…
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My Phishing Kit BurnbookZack Allen40m
Year of kit research shows phishing kits sell like SaaS: one Indonesian ecosystem centered on 16Shop powers thousands of sites (URLScan ~8,000 16Shop domains…
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Ransomware: Creation, Detection, and ResponseAaron Rosenmund40m
A Golang ransomware called Ironcat is built for training and accidentally leaked; it encrypts files with AES, drops a spoofed ransom note and batch backdoors…
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Get Rich or Get Hunted Trying: Uncovering Large Scale Fraud OperationsTal Darsan, Danna Pelleg40m
A demonstrated Evilginx reverse proxy captures live session tokens and cookies, lets attackers refresh the real site, change the password and lock out the…
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Biohacking: The Invisible ThreatLen Noe40m
Demo shows subdermal implants (FlexNext, VivoKey Spark 2, FlexM1 Magic 1k) carrying NFC/RFID/MIFARE data and a community-built SBC “Peg-Leg” with…
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WebAuthn 201: How to FIDOChristiaan Brand40m
Covers practical steps to add phishing‑resistant and passwordless logins using FIDO2/WebAuthn and CTAP, with concrete API calls, browser behavior and device…
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Reducing Payment Fraud with SWIFT Customer Security Controls FrameworkCheri McGuire, Brett Lancaster, Bill Hoffman, JF Legault40m
SWIFT launches a Customer Security Program after the 2016 Bangladesh heist and requires annual attestation, independent assurance and supervisory follow-up…
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Cybersecurity Operations Center Technology TaxonomyChristopher Crowley40m
A practical, exhaustive SOC technology inventory is proposed, listing 30–40 specific tech types (EDR/HIPS, network IDS/IPS, SIEM, malware sandbox…
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ISE-Skating: Lessons Learned in Bypassing Network Access ControlAnthony Ralston40m
Shows a reproducible ISE-Skating bypass that takes under a minute by inserting a hub/unmanaged switch or a disguised UPS + Raspberry Pi between supplicant and…
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Evasion, Poisoning, Extraction, and Inference: Tools to Defend and EvaluateBeat Buesser, Abigail Goldsteen40m
Open-source Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) demonstrates concrete attacks and defenses: attribute inference on the nursery dataset yields ~70% accuracy…
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Learning from the Enemy: A Look Inside the Techniques of Ocean Lotus /APT32Brian Robison40m
Demonstration shows two real OceanLotus/APT32 fileless attacks: a DDE field and a macro-laden resume that never writes payloads to disk but loads a PowerShell…
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Building Secure and Reliable Systems at ScaleHeather Adkins40m
Argues that security and reliability are inseparable and gives concrete Google-era fixes: replace fragile VPNs with SSL-based BeyondCorp (pioneered 2011) to…
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Hunt and Gather: Developing Effective Threat Hunting TechniquesTim Bandos40m
Threat hunting focuses on concrete signals and tools not vague promises it uses Sysmon v13.01 for endpoint telemetry and free Sysinternals AutoRuns plus…
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Your Metrics Suck! 5 SecOps Metrics That Are Better Than MTTRJohn Caimano, Kerry Matre40m
MTTR is the wrong KPI for analysts because it incentivizes speed over correct investigation; replace it with actionable measures like Events Per Analyst per…
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The UDS Security Model of the Tesla CAN Bus and Battery Management SystemPatrick Kiley40m
Reverse engineering reveals how the Ludicrous retrofit is delivered: physical surgery (replace pyro fuse, contactors, recalibrate current shunt) plus BMS…
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Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Incident Response FunctionRoy Katmor, Udi Yavo40m
Pipeline turns detections into normalized artifacts, sandbox enrichment, classifier-driven scoping and response; models include a <10MB edge random forest that…
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From Zero to Hero – How Cisco Deployed Zero Trust in Five MonthsBrad Arkin40m
Cisco deploys Zero Trust to over 100,000 users and 120,000 devices in five months by replacing VPN with a network gateway, issuing device and user certificates…
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DBOM and SBOM: New Options For Better Supply Chain CybersecurityJennifer Bisceglie40m
A clear distinction emerges: SBOMs are machine‑readable lists of components (average >100 parts per product, some with thousands) using standards like SPDX…
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Discord, Generation Z’s Hacking UniversityBrook Chelmo40m
Discord hosts communities that buy malware modules with customer support, use cryptocurrency (Bitcoin → Dash/Monero → PayPal) for cashout, and treat Discord…
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The Attacker’s Guide to SSO and Passwordless TechnologiesAsaf Hecht40m
Demonstrates concrete attacks against Windows Hello and browser SSO in hybrid Azure setups, using Mimikatz to extract Kerberos tickets and showing…
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Into the Mind of an IoT Hacker | How to Protect IoT Networks & DevicesItzik Feiglevitch, Justin Sowder40m
Typical enterprise of 5,000 employees contains about 20,000 IoT devices and a 500‑bed hospital about 10,000 devices; public scans (Shodan) show ~25,000…
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Post-QuantumJames Howe, Thomas Prest, Thijs Laarhoven, Corentin Jeudy40m
Survey extracts concrete rules: lattice signatures use TPSF/ATPSF instantiations (Falcon, Wave) to get provable security; many early implementations fail from…
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Security-as-Code to Accelerate DevSecOps, a Practical Guide to Get StartedCindy Blake40m
Practical checklist that codifies security into CI/CD: six practical steps for testing source and execution, infrastructure and IaC, micro‑networking and the…
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AppSec’s Future and the Rise of the Chief Product Security OfficerJoshua Corman, Chris Wysopal40m
Claim: classic AppSec no longer scales and organizations must create a Chief Product Security Officer role to manage productized software, supply chains and…
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Blockchain Security Guarantees and ExploitsAdrian Bednarek40m
Scans of 34 billion keys produce 732 private keys tied to 57,000 on‑chain transactions, but no large untouched balances; one automated actor consolidates loot…
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CISO Leadership: Building Your Personal Action PlanFrank Kim40m
Provides concrete frameworks and a timeline: use the CISO Mind Map and a three-column security leadership matrix (boss/manager/leader) to restructure team…
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Project 2030: Scenarios for the Future of CybercrimeDr. Victoria Baines, Rik Ferguson40m
A published white paper maps hundreds of patents and media items plus an invite‑only survey of over 100 practitioners into three 2030 scenarios for New San…
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Zero Trust, Zero Pain: A Practical Implementation with Intrinsic SecurityPere Monclus, Shawn Bass40m
VMware cites Forrester research and outlines an actionable Zero Trust stack: per‑app tunnels to replace device VPNs, PoPs/SASE points to normalize…
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WAF Made EasyMicah Brown40m
A reproducible method claims deployment of 30 WAFs in under one quarter using a build‑tune‑support pipeline: plan with an implementation guide, cold‑build…
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How You Can Ask the Right Questions to Succeed with Your Security ProjectsLenny Zeltser40m
Explains concrete question patterns that improve security projects: use open-ended probes like please tell me about your approach to classifying information to…
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Ethical AI: Addressing Bias & Algorithmic FairnessSherin Mathews, Amanda House40m
Demonstrates concrete tools and results: examples include a historical admissions dataset that admits twice as many men as women, face‑generation biases from…
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The Game of Cyber Threat Hunting: The Return of the FunXiaokui Shu, Dr. Jiyong Jang40m
Kestrel is an open source hunt language that composes Kestrel hunting language patterns and docker-hosted analytics to shift focus from query craft to…
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How to Build a Long-term XDR Architecture StrategyAllison Clelan40m
XDR combines endpoint, network and cloud telemetry to cut alert and tool overload by automating detection, investigation and response; recommended foundation…
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Job Search 2021: Interview Skills & Resume WorkshopCamille Stewart, Brent Nohl, Christine Klema, Paula Dancil, Carrie Patrick, Sarah Le Roy58m
Panel gives a tactical playbook: craft a three‑phase narrative do, validate, exude (turn “painted my mom’s house” into a project‑managed scope/budget/vendor…
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The Resilience Business Case: Three Case StudiesWolfgang Goerlich40m
Three case studies show how resiliency wins with specifics: a money manager converts an audit finding and a fragile call‑tree plan into a prioritized recovery…
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Cyber Risk Management Programs: Bringing Clarity to CybersecurityLisa Donnan40m
Panel summarizes concrete risk practices: use NIST Cybersecurity Framework and MITRE ATT&CK to map gaps, run continuous vulnerability management plus…
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Managing Access Entitlements & Their Lifecycle in a Multi-Cloud EnvironmentVictoria Almazova, Anmol Singh40m
Conference claims that 80–85% of organizations have multi‑cloud and about 50–55% are actively executing; managing entitlements shifts from ad hoc to…
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The Scientific Method: Security Chaos Experimentation & Attacker MathKelly Shortridge40m
Security chaos engineering applies the scientific method to attacker math by building decision trees that map attacker choices and defender mitigations…
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Attacking Kubernetes Clusters Through Your Network PlumbingNir Chako40m
Demonstrates concrete attacks: ARP/MAC spoofing via flannel lets a compromised pod intercept DNS replies despite kube‑proxy DNAT; dropping NET_RAW or strict…
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Cryptography in Distributed SystemsHamidreza Khoshakhlagh40m
Claims a secret-shared q-SDH accumulator with constant-size witnesses that uses MPC (SPDZ or Shamir) so all updates and witness creation run in constant time…
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Expert's Take On Hacker Burner Phones, Automation and HardwareKeith Rebello, Mark Loveless, John Gleason, Sam Levin39m
Three short, specific briefings: a step‑by‑step burner‑phone OPSEC playbook—buy with cash, register via ProtonMail + ProtonVPN, order to an Amazon Locker, use…
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So You Want to Be an Expert WitnessLauren X. Topelsohn, Hoyt L. Kesterson II01h 00m
Practical roadmap for becoming an expert witness: how attorneys search, hire, and prepare experts; the Daubert factors that gatekeep admissible opinions…
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Why 5G Demands a New Approach to CybersecurityDavid Grady40m
5G claims: sub-5 ms latency, up to 10 Gbps throughput and 10 TB/km2 device density, plus edge MEC and network slicing that let security run at the edge as…
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Hot Topics in Cyber Law 2021Michael Aisenberg, Catherine Barrett, Lucy Thomson, Stephen Wu01h 00m
U.S. policy pivots to supply chain and AI: EO 14017 and related orders reboot federal tech advice and target semiconductors, software and batteries; GAO adds…
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Building Cyber Resilience - Considerations for CISOsTamer Charife, Abeer Khedr, Reem F. Al-Shammari, Biju Hameed, Arwa Alhamad50m
Banking systems with 15 million customers and oil infrastructure supplying 93% of national income face widening attack surfaces from cloud, OT/IT convergence…
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Adversary Simulation: Close the Gaps in Your Security PostureJake Williams40m
Practical guide to building a repeatable adversary simulation program that maps specific attacker TTPs to measurable outcomes: use MITRE ATT&CK and the APT3…
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Building Red Team CapabilityDavid Wolpoff, Rob Fuller, Philip Martin33m
Red teaming is an operational capability that emulates true attackers: no scripted scope, objective‑focused attempts to gain access, and checks whether…
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Compliance Made Easy—Simplify Your Approach to PrivacyMike Green, Kelly Hood40m
Demonstrates how organizations leverage the NIST Privacy Framework and community crosswalks (CCPA, ISO, NIST CSF) to consolidate hundreds of requirements into…
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What’s Old is New: Hybrid Security for Microsoft Azure and On-Premises TechMatthew McWhirt, Michael Burns40m
Attackers pivot between on‑prem Active Directory and Azure AD by abusing hidden roles, directory sync accounts and service principals with key material to gain…
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MITRE ATT&CK® as a Framework for Cloud Threat InvestigationJasdeep Basra, Tanu Kaushik40m
A survey of 325 enterprises surveyed finds 81% use ATT&CK with 63% using the cloud matrix, and 44% at intermediate or advanced implementation; only 39%…
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The Road to End-to-End EncryptionMax Krohn40m
Zoom publishes a GitHub white paper, prototypes a first end‑to‑end encrypted meeting, and ships E2E to paid and free users in Oct 2020 release. Phase one uses…
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A Primer: Getting Started with MITRE ShieldWilliam Hill, Stanley Barr40m
MITRE Shield presents a practical framework that maps defender actions to ATT&CK techniques and turns deception into measurable intel: examples include running…
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Me, My Adversary & AI: Investigating & Hunting with Machine LearningJess Garcia40m
Project uses real production data (100 servers, 30 days, ~220k scheduled-task events and ~24M file-timeline rows), harmonizes diverse tool outputs with a HAM…
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Defend Forward: Moving Toward Coordinated Active Cyber ResponseShane McGee, Andrew Epstein, Kimberly Keifer Peretti, Randy Sabett01h 00m
Defend forward means pushing disruption earlier by combining government authorities and private telemetry from ISAOs/ISAOs-style groups, not unchecked…
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Purple Team Auth: Hacking & Bypassing MFA Systems, and How to Armor UpDan Houser40m
Details two practical bypasses and concrete defenses: a repeated spoofed-call attack against Azure-style phone-push MFA (caller ID spoof + annoying prerecorded…
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RSAC College Day Panel - Exploring Cybersecurity Job OpportunitiesMike Gordon, Andrea Abell, John Scimone40m
Panelists say cybersecurity hiring outstrips available talent by millions and urge practical evidence of skill: build home labs, join collegiate hacking teams…
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From the Fry Pan to the Fire—Personal Liability for CISOs and InfoSec ProsAravind Swaminathan, Mark Weatherford01h 00m
Real-time review of recent probes (Uber, Yahoo!, Equifax) links specific criminal theories—false statements, securities and wire fraud, obstruction…
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Smart IoT: IoT Botnet Attacks on Power Grids Exploiting Their Weak PointsTohid Shekari, Dr. Raheem Beyah40m
Claim: a geographically distributed IoT botnet that flips high‑wattage devices at 150,000 bots and targets weak network nodes identified from ISO websites and…
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Managing Privacy and Cyber In A Pandemic: Lessons Learned For 2021 & BeyondEricka Johnson, Aaron Charfoos01h 00m
Companies collecting pandemic data face concrete numbers and legal traps: 76% asked employees to notify of diagnoses, 53% ask travel, 23% take temperatures…
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Protests, Pandemics, and Privacy: The Rise of Surveillance StatesDavid Cole, Niloo Howe40m
China deploys facial recognition, Nanny apps that scan Quran verses, and QR-based Alipay Health Code gates that issue green/yellow/red access; Xinjiang sees 1…
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Trusted Internet of Things Device Onboarding and Lifecycle ManagementSusan Symington, William Polk, Murugiah Souppaya40m
Current provisioning leaves networks open and devices hijackable; with 40 billion devices expected by 2025 the session argues for scalable, automated…
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Malware Reverse Engineering with PE Tree—OSS Inspired by COVIDTom Bonner40m
PE Tree is an open source Python/PyQt5 tool (based on pefile and capstone) that can dump executables from memory, scan IDA/Rekall/Ghidra databases, and rebuild…
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Master Class ICT: A Cyber Case Law Review 2021Richard Aldrich, Julie Bowen01h 00m
Covers concrete rulings and open fights: Van Buren: narrowing CFAA liability for “improper purpose”, the pending Mondelez v. Zurich dispute over whether…
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Three’s Company: Unpacking and Settling in with Three NIST FrameworksChristina Sames, David Weitzel, Julie Snyder40m
Compares three NIST frameworks and shows how to turn 108 CSF subcategories and a 450‑control RMF baseline into actionable priorities using Daisy chart mission…
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Authentication and Key ExchangeJacques Traoré40m
A systematization analyzes 12 papers and proposes a compact, syntax-first model for group key exchange that captures asynchronous messaging, flexible…
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Multi-Cloud Security Monitoring and CIS Benchmarks Evaluation at ScaleSusam Pal, Prasoon Dwivedi40m
A plugin-based monitoring system uses cloud provider APIs to pull resource JSON, normalize it into a cloud-independent com/ext/raw model, index to…
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Navigating the Biometric AnatomyChris Hydak01h 00m
A Microsoft legal team builds a review framework: a working definition of biometric data, an inventory of uses, and risk buckets keyed to unique identification…
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Cyber’s Past, Present, and Future: The Truth is Stranger than FictionNicole Perlroth40m
Panelists trace concrete failures and fixes: a Russian group called Sandworm triggers Ukrainian power outages and a worm called NotPetya $10 billion that…
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Election Security: Lessons from the Front LinesCynthia Kaiser40m
Panel summarizes concrete outcomes from 2020: Maricopa County (4th largest) documents three election cycles, hourly incident reporting starting 5:00 AM…
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Beyond Endpoint Security Using Osquery at ScalePrasoon Dwivedi, Prateek Kumar Nischal40m
An open audit framework built on osquery + Linux audit framework standardizes agent behavior, bootstraps via TLS plugins, and ships a PKI-backed signed…
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Securing Tesla and Mobileye from Split-Second Phantom AttacksBen Nassi, Dr. Yisroel Mirsky40m
Researchers demonstrate split-second phantom attacks that remotely project images (drone or hacked digital billboard) to trigger real-world ADAS: Mobileye 630…
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DHS CISA Strategy to Fix Vulnerabilities Below the OS Among Worst OffendersThomas Ruoff, Boyden Rohner40m
CISA declares a national effort to remediate vulnerabilities below the OS, naming UEFI as worst offender after citing the 2015 Ukrainian grid compromise…
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Using Threat Modeling to Improve ComplianceAdam Shostack40m
Claim: mapping PCI line items to explicit threats reveals PCI emphasizes process and management threats (outdated firewall rules, retained auth data, missing…
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How I Hacked Your Website and You Didn’t Even KnowSiddhesh Yawalkar40m
A live Magecart-style demo uses ZAP to map third-party supply chains, injects a 5-line payload into a demo analytics script and exfiltrates login fields to a…
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The Value of CyberSec Certifications: A Holistic ViewDon Donzal, Sara Pickering, John Hammond, Sam Levin41m
Panelists argue that certifications matter differently by career stage: entry-level gain Network+, CCNA, Security+ or beginner pentest creds like eJPT to pass…
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Serverless Architecture Security Patterns for Securing the UnseenJabez Abraham40m
Shows a live lambdashell.com demo where captured AWS access key secret and session token let an attacker use a Lambda execution role to write CloudWatch logs…
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How 2020 Vision Has Blurred Attorney Client Privilege in Incident ResponseAndrea Hoy, Ronald Raether, Corey White, Ashley Taylor01h 00m
Andrea Hoy, Founder and Virtual Chief Information Security Officer, A. Hoy & Associates, LLC Ronald Raether, Partner, Troutman Pepper Corey White, Founder and…
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An Existential Crisis for Global Data Flows: Privacy and Security IssuesBret Cohen, Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Alexandra Ross01h 00m
July 2020’s Schrems II decision annuls Privacy Shield and forces companies to treat transfers under standard contractual clauses as lawful only after a…
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Are Password Managers Improving our Password Habits?David Ng, Stuart Schechter40m
Study recruits 2,491 initial respondents then filters down to 109 validated dashboards from desktop-capable users. About two thirds report using some form of…
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Forecasting Threats is Way Easier Than You ThinkChris Cronin40m
Claim: forecasting breach likelihood is practical by measuring tendencies, not exact probabilities. Uses the Veris Community Database CSV (≈9,000 incidents…
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Supply Chain Resilience in a Time of Techtonic Geopolitical ShiftsAndrea Little Limbago40m
Global trade plunges in Q1–Q2 2020 and COVID accelerates decades‑long fragility: supply chains reveal thousands of opaque suppliers, concentration in China and…
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Taking Flight – 3 Experts Discuss Aerospace CybersecurityGabe Mounce16m
Claims that avionics hubs can route malicious updates hinge on a few constraints: attacks need physical access to LRUs, must hit address locations on buses…
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How the BEC Threat Landscape is Evolving and What We Can Do About ItCrane Hassold40m
FBI figures and Agari data show BEC causes roughly 40% of cybercrime losses and $26B+ from 2016–2019 (about $708M/month); 2020 BEC losses hit $1.9B while…
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Through Your Mind’s Eye: What Biases Are Impacting Your Security Posture?Lynda Grindstaff40m
Claims that cognitive biases systematically skew security decisions: high-profile stories (SolarWinds) drive risk assessments while common threats (ransomware…
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Telehealth Cybersecurity: Secure Remote Patient Monitoring EcosystemNakia Grayson, Sue Wang, Steven Waite, Axel Wirth40m
Project produces a tested RPM Reference Architecture built with 10 industry collaborators, maps controls to NIST Risk Management, Cybersecurity and Privacy…
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Beyond Public Buckets: Lessons Learned on Attack Detection in the CloudNick Jones, Alfie Champion40m
Practical checklist and a working toolchain: an open-source framework Leonidas runs attacker TTPs as code against AWS, generates Sigma rules, and executes a…
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Hot Topics in Misinformation: Election 2020, COVID 19, and MoreIsabella Garcia-Camargo40m
Summary of concrete findings and tools: investigators identify at least 12 foreign information operations but find most viral election harm comes from domestic…
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Research on New Vectors of UDP-Based DDoS Amplification Attacks of IoTWenmao Liu40m
Honeypot logs and internet-wide scans show specific UDP services (WS‑Discovery, CoAP, Ubiquiti, OpenVPN, ADDP/DHDiscover) produce huge amplification when…
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What Was I Thinking?: Bungled Breach ResponsesJohn Hauser, Ann Marie Mortimer, Brian Levine01h 00m
Session gives concrete takeaways: company Slack and texts routinely surface in discovery, incident response reports are usually discoverable unless carefully…
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Are You Really You? Higher Assurance Identity Proofing to the Rescue!Lorrayne Auld40m
Explains how to get from policy to practice using NIST SP 80063A with concrete steps resolution validation verification, required evidence types for IAL2 vs…
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Confidential Computing Across Multiple Clouds and Platforms: Project EnarxMike Bursell, Nathaniel McCallum40m
Project Enarx claims to run sensitive apps on untrusted hosts by combining WebAssembly, Rust and hardware TEEs (currently SGX and AMD SEV, Intel TDX planned)…
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Zero Trust: Regaining Trust in a Remote Work WorldMacy Cronkrite40m
Remote work pushes the perimeter into unknown networks so SIEMs need different reference data and long‑term logs; claim: assume breach and prevent lateral…
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Who You Gonna Call: The Quest for a National Data Breach Reporting LawAruna Viswanatha, Luke Dembosky, Tonya Ugoretz, Adam Hickey55m
Congress is still debating a single federal breach-reporting law while the current landscape remains a 50 state + 4 territorial patchwork and Europe uses GDPR…
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It's Been a Privilege to Serve You–a Mock HearingApril Falcon Doss, Kimberly Keifer Peretti, Laurel Beeler, Julie Lewis01h 00m
A vendor chosen after a June pen test suffers a Labor Day ransomware attack that encrypts systems and causes six weeks downtime; the same vendor’s firm then…
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Cybersecurity Controls: It Isn't Just Technical Controls That Need TestingGlauco Sampaio40m
Claim: continuous control monitoring tests the whole control lifecycle — rule match, log delivery, automation and human playbook — not just code scans…
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Uncovering Covert Channels in Your IoT NetworksChet Hosmer, Michael Raggo40m
Claims a working open‑source detector called MPA Python analyzer that parses PCAPs or live traffic, correlates Modbus Transaction/Unit/Function IDs, and raises…
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AI vs AI: Creating Novel Spam and Catching it with Text Generating AIYounghoo Lee40m
Uses DistilGPT-2 fine-tuned as a classifier and a PPLM-based attribute model to generate labeled SMS; trains on UCI SMS corpus with a tiny seed of 200 samples…
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Traveler’s Protection Guide: Low Tech Physical OPSEC for a High Tech JobMarco Preuß, Dan Demeter40m
Recommend full disk encryption with BitLocker/FileVault or VeraCrypt, use GPG with 4k keys for email (people send ~30–40 emails/day), move private keys to a…
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"S"ecurity Convergence of Cyber, Fraud, and Physical SpecialtiesSusan M. Koski40m
Argues that merging cyber, fraud, and physical operations reduces blind spots by building a common data plane (SIEM → big‑data) and a fusion center for shared…
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A Punch to the Supply Chain: Fighting Back to ResilienceJennifer Bisceglie, Robert Brese, Phil Venables, Edna Conway40m
Panel argues enterprises must map, monitor and model multi‑tier supply chains, use open‑source intelligence and industry sharing, and run tabletop wargames and…
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Multi-Cloud Anomaly Detection: Finding Threats Among Us in the Big 3 CloudsBrandon Evans40m
Shows how to detect cloud breaches by using native audit logs across AWS, Azure and GCP: enable VPC/VNet flow logs and API audit logs, persist them (recommend…
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Developers Dislike Security: Ten Frustrations and ResolutionsChris Romeo40m
Lists ten frustrations developers voice (loud tools, false positives, gatekeeping, no time, shifting guidance) and gives concrete fixes: security coaching…
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Creating the Next Cyber Generation - Lessons Learned from the NSA and UWFDiane M. Janosek, Esq., CISSP40m
Federal programs and a university coalition scale hands‑on training: GenCyber 154 camps run in 44 states plus DC and Puerto Rico serving ~5,000 K–12 students…
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Patterns for Encryption in Hybrid CloudMark Buckwell40m
Practical pattern set for hybrid cloud encryption that names concrete components and tradeoffs: cloud key managers, an single-tenant HSM partition (FIPS…
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Security: The Hidden Cost of Android StalkerwareLukas Štefanko40m
Analysis covers 86 Android apps analyzed, gathered from Play Store installs and other sources, with 158 exploitable issues found in 58 apps (67%) and over…
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Hacker’s Paradise: Top 10 Biggest Threats When Working From HomePaula Januszkiewicz40m
Demonstrations show macro-triggered PowerShell downloading a reverse shell, a DLL-hijack persistency that escalates to SYSTEM, and an SMB relay using…
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Hooked By Phisherman: Quarterbacking Breach Response with Law EnforcementMark Sangster, Catherine Lyle, Justin Daniels, Jodi R. Daniels, Marc Debrody01h 00m
A phishing link leads to an Office365 credential theft, ransomware encrypts files and posts a $5 million demand, and responders must choose between restoring…
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Beyond Living-Off-the-Land: Why XP Exploits Still MatterJean-Ian Boutin, Zuzana Hromcova40m
Claim: attackers bring and exploit older signed Windows binaries such as a Windows XP wdigest.dll plus an XP rundll32 to run shellcode that reuses code gadgets…
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Responding to Disinformation and Influence CampaignsMelissa O'Leary40m
Anecdotes show false identity hijacks search results (a same‑name smear requiring a take-down process), nation‑state campaigns that forge documents and get…
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Internal AppSec Awareness and EducationTiffany Long, Nikki Brandt, Marisa Fagan, Tom Hudson39m
Seven-minute lightning advice condenses reproducible steps: buy an LMS with admin tools and HR integration, customize training to the top vulnerabilities…
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Zero Trust in a Post-pandemic WorldBret Arsenault, Rob Lefferts40m
Microsoft describes a practical Zero Trust rollout centered on healthy devices, strong identity and persistent telemetry, using Windows Hello for Business…
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Ransomware Threat LandscapeAdam Meyers40m
CrowdStrike reports tracking 154 adversaries and shows ransomware shifting from commodity malware to targeted operations using access brokers, Emotet/Dridex…
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Cryptanalysis IMarloes Venema40m
Three short results: implementation of Simon on IBM-Q16 15‑qubit device up to 7‑dim shows non‑orthogonal measurement mass (tau grows with dimension), proposes…
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Top Seven AI Breaches: Learning to Protect Against Unsafe LearningDavi Ottenheimer40m
Seven concrete failure modes: machine translation flips gender on simple Hungarian and Finnish sentences (Hungarian gender flips, Finnish names change with…
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Protecting What Matters Most – Tools for Managing RiskTom Conkle, Greg Witte, John Manchester, Leilani Lauger40m
Panelists argue organizations must map cybersecurity into enterprise risk management using practical artifacts: NISTIR 8286 guidance, a maintained risk…
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Getting Started With SASE: Connect, Control and Converge With ConfidenceMeg Diaz40m
Cloud shift and remote work drive replacing MPLS backhaul with cloud-delivered networking and security, claiming direct internet access improves latency but…
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Applied MPCNigel Smart40m
Three concrete contributions: a protocol that runs PageRank over partitioned bank graphs using Secure PageRank via MPC with fixed-point arithmetic and an…
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Ten Things to Include in Remote Work IT Risk AssessmentsAlyssa Pugh40m
Lists ten concrete remote-work risks and fixes: unauthorized data exfiltration (asks whether sensitive files are encrypted at rest, in transit, and…
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Navigating the Unknowable: Resilience through Security Chaos EngineeringAaron Rinehart, Jamie Dicken40m
Chaos Engineering applied to security—Security Chaos Engineering—is framed as proactive experiments that inject small failures to reveal control drift and…
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Beyond Endpoints: A Case for Open XDRLauren Horaist40m
Security stacks stay scattered and costly so the argument is for an open XDR approach that centralizes and normalizes telemetry across vendors, applies…
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Why Resilience Has Become A Cybersecurity SuperpowerLisa Young40m
Argues that resilience is an emergent capability not a product, broader than business continuity and dependent on disciplined risk identification over control…
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Who Owns Your Data?Steve Black40m
Maps regulatory regimes across 120+ countries and argues that recent laws effectively turn data into property, using Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council…
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Monitoring Strategy for the Coming Space 5G NetworkTheresa Suloway, Nick Tsamis40m
Claims that DHS CDM-style architecture maps to Space 5G, with a reference design using Elastic Stack and Kibana to ingest logs. Defines two concrete threats…
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Demystifying Decentralized Fair Models for Federated Machine LearningSubarna Rana, Sharmistha Chatterjee40m
Claims a practical pipeline that blends PySyft-based federated training with additive secret sharing and differential privacy (Laplace/Gaussian) to produce…
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His Power Level is Over 9000! Vulnerabilities in Solar Panel ControllersWaylon Grange40m
Mobile apps are mono builds that call a native binary to compute an MD5+CRC installer password from a device serial, firmware packages sit in an open S3 bucket…
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Colorful AppSec - Red, Blue, or Purple?Pedro Umbelino, Luis Gomes, Tanya Janca, Erez Yalon39m
Red teams run realistic attack exercises that go beyond bug bounties to probe APIs, mobile apps, infrastructure and business logic, uncovering risks that lack…
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Critical DNS & Domain Name Security Intelligence to Thwart CyberattacksIhab Shraim, David Conrad40m
ICANN and CSC detail concrete findings: 325,000+ COVID‑related domains appear since Jan 2020, 64% on .COM, ~75% on gTLDs, 645+ fraudulent online stores selling…
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The Zero Trust Challenge for Hybrid Cloud: Truths vs MythsBill Malik40m
Hybrid cloud needs identity‑centric Zero Trust for real‑time authorization, SASE as the cloud‑deployed instantiation, and process automation to stop human…
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Under the Unfluence: the Dark Side of InfluenceRon Woerner40m
Shows concrete attack paths and defenses: romance scams cost $200M reported in 2019 and often seed business email compromise, Verizon finds ~50% of breaches…
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Are Pentests Relevant with Bug BountiesJoseph Mlodzianowski, Omar Santos, Phillip Wylie39m
Pen testing stays necessary for compliance, internal network and OT/ICS checks, social engineering and deep source‑code or zero‑day hunts, while bug bounties…
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Personal Threat Models and, Speculatively, Privacy GovernanceBethan Cantrell40m
Claim: simple, repeatable personal threat modeling lets users map risks and choose actions using four basic steps: establish awareness via a trust boundary…
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How to Ruin your SOC in 5 Easy StepsBen Smith40m
Five actionable failure modes: rely only on SIEM logs instead of logs + network + endpoint visibility (use XDR); keep incident procedures in outdated binders…
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Invisible Security: Protecting Users with No Time to SpareJosiah Dykstra40m
Argument for shifting security burdens to automated defenses with concrete results: operating systems and apps use automatic updates to patch the majority of…
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Who Stole My 100,000 Dollars’ Worth Bitcoin Wallets - Story of HoneyTokensTan Kean Siong40m
Describes a 90-day experiment that plants 10 Testnet wallets worth about $100,000 in total (Testnet coins) inside bait zip files and watches who steals them…
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Digital Identities - 21 PKI Pitfalls and How Best to Avoid ThemTim Callan, Jason Soroko40m
Lists 21 concrete PKI mistakes and fixes, with examples like RSA 2048 and ECC 256 as current key standards, and incidents (O2, Equifax) tied to expired…
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In the Crosshairs: The State of Security in SLTT and SMB OrganizationsTony Sager40m
State and local governments, SMBs and their MSPs share fragile defenses: surveys of a 11,000+ member ISAC and assessments show controls 1,5,9,11,14 are…
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Three Ways to Manage Risk and Digital Transformation During a PandemicMichael Jabbara40m
Visa shows digital volume +40% while physical payments drop ~20% early in the pandemic and later digital stays ~30% growth as physical returns to breakeven…
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Burnout—The Greatest Threat to Your Organization’s SecurityChloe Messdaghi40m
Security burnout causes measurable risk: 94% of US CISOs work > contracted hours, 74% of orgs have ad hoc or no incident plans and successful breaches spike…
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Displacing the Dollar: Is Crypto Robust Enough to be the New Reserve Currency?Kenneth Geers, Kathy Wang40m
Conclusion: cryptocurrency faces technical and operational limits that keep it from supplanting the dollar in the near term. Key specifics: Bitcoin handles a…
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Weak Links in Cloud IAM - Never Trust. Always Verify!Nathaniel Quist, Chien-An (Jay) Chen40m
Red team exercise reproduces two real attack paths: an IAM PassRole with Resource "" lets a developer account attach admin service roles to EC2/Lambda/ECS and…
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Strengthening Resilience of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing ServicesJim McCarthy, James Platt40m
U.S. critical infrastructure is highly dependent on GPS and GNSS and a complete loss can cost $1 billion a day; weak open signals are trivially jammed with a…
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Building Trust in Supply ChainsShingo Hane, Asahiko Yamada40m
Claims a Cyber‑Physical Security Platform that models production with a VCP model, collects sensor logs and operational steps, and compiles digital evidence to…
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Security Policy Management in the Hybrid CloudSattwik Gavli40m
Companies face 81% cloud adoption while 72% report cloud security concerns and most breaches trace to misconfigurations. A centralized security policy…
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What are Faster Payments and Why Should a Security Practitioner Care?Peter Tapling40m
The US is introducing the first new core payment rails in 40 years: RTP is live and FedNow is coming, both using the credit push model and delivering…
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Breaking the Box: How Emerging Technology Can Close the Cyber Skills GapDiana Kelley, Deveeshree Nayak40m
Claims that gamification, behavioral analysis and bug bounty programs tangibly increase hireable experience, with concrete paths like DEFCON CTF wins and…
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Building a Global Cyber Rating - How to Objectively Rate Cyber CapabilitiesJack Freund, Derek Vadala40m
Proposal builds a blended Global Cyber Rating that combines five data streams — outside‑in scans, inside‑out telemetry and API queries, management…
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A Review of the Ransomware Threat LandscapeJen Miller-Osborn, Shannon Vavra, Phil Reiner, Michael Daniel40m
Unit 42’s data shows ransomware economics explode: average ransom tripled to $312,493, the largest known payment rises to $10M and demands top $30M. Criminals…
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We’re All in this Together: Technology Abuse and DesignErica Olsen, Natalie Dolci, Jennifer Landhuis, Tom Ristenpart40m
Covers concrete problems and fixes: explains 1000% increase in stalkerware during the pandemic, shows how common tools like Find My iPhone misuse and spyware…
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Is Your Organization’s Confidential Data Really Confidential?Michael Ekstrom, Anne Townsend40m
Claims that average breach cost is $3.86M and that two NIST/NCCoE guides (1800-23 ID-PR and 1800-29 DRR) provide deployable architectures and tested builds…
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Modern Identity Hacking: Have Hackers Really Adjusted to Constant Remote?Mike Jankowski-Lorek40m
Demoed exploits show MFA and modern auth failing in practice: a compromised endpoint with Meterpreter and a SOCKS proxy lets an attacker pivot over VPN (works…
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Attack & Defend: Protecting Modern Distributed Applications and ComponentsJohannes Ullrich, Jason Lam40m
Browser devtools + curl reveal a JWT sent to the app; copying that token and posting it to the backend port (bypassing the Kong gateway) returns the same data…
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The State of the Union of DevSecOpsShannon Lietz40m
Overview of current state: industry adoption shows Gartner: 20–50% adoption and strong vendor growth (unicorns like Snyk), but real gaps remain — tooling…
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Gula Tech Foundation Data Care Grant Competition Awards: $1M at StakeIsabel Guly, Philip Green, Deborah Plunkett, Tom Quitter, Forty Siget, Douglas Simon M.D., Michael Fang, Kelsey F. Hunt39m
Gula Tech Foundation awards $1M across seven nonprofits, with four runners‑up ($100K each) and 3rd/2nd/1st at $150K/$200K/$250K. Notable specifics: CIAS at…
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How Risky Is Cybersecurity Insurance?John Pescatore, Benjamin Wright40m
Cyber-insurance reduces but does not eliminate losses: example small breach of 28,000 records produces about $3.0M total damage, $1.4M invoiceable recovery and…
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Incident Response – How to Give the Advantage to the Hackers!James Christiansen, David Estlick40m
Practical incident-response war stories with concrete takeaways: ransomware demands tied to business-impact decisions and the recommendation to get a Coinbase…
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Inside the Mind of the SUNBURST AdversaryMarco Figueroa40m
An adversary compromises the SolarWinds Orion build chain to inject a backdoor that signs and ships with legitimate updates, successfully reaching 18,000…
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ComPriSec: A Weird Word for a New WorldRon Woerner, Warren Fish, Robert LaMagna-Reiter, Lisa McKee50m
Panel defines ComPriSec as the overlapping work of compliance, privacy and security and gives concrete steps: map data, applications, assets and services…
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Flying to DevSecOps with a USAF Cyber Weapon System - Year 1Dr. Mark Peters40m
Technica Corporation moves a USAF Cyber weapon system (CVAH) from waterfall to DevSecOps and ships three releases in nine months, a 400% release-rate increase…
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Enemy Inside the Gates: Securing the New BattlegroundTom Gillis, Christopher Kruegel40m
Breaches bypass perimeters so the talk advocates securing East‑West traffic by embedding tiny, software distributed micro-firewalls and IDS/IPS at each service…
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Escalation from Heist to Hostage: Modern Bank Heists 4.0Tom Kellermann40m
Survey of 126 CISOs reports concrete shifts: 57% note increased wire transfer fraud, 54% see destructive attacks up 118%, 41% report market strategy espionage…
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Leveraging Suricata in the Enterprise: Shifting from Events to InsightsEric Leblond, Peter Manev40m
Shows a concrete workflow that turns Suricata’s raw output into actionable signals using SELKS, Scirius Community Edition, Kibana and VirusTotal. Claims 60k+…
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Faulty Assumptions: Why Intelligence Sharing FailsMichael Daniel40m
Claim: intelligence sharing fails because three faulty assumptions drive programs — that CTI is only technical, that everyone should share the same technical…
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Lessons Drawn From Cybersecurity In The Rise of Privacy TechMelanie Ensign, Michelle Dennedy, Lourdes M. Turrecha40m
Privacy tech today mostly automates legal workflows but the real opportunities are developer-facing: shift left into development with tools that scan entire…
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Picking Winners: How the Pandemic Changed Cybersecurity InvestingRob Sloan, Saam Motamedi, Chenxi Wang, Dino Boukouris40m
Venture activity pauses briefly in Q2 2020 then accelerates: cybersecurity deal count rises from 420 to 540, a 28% increase and funding climbs to $11 billion…
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Nurture vs. Nature in AppSec: Data-Driven Measurement of DevSecOpsJay Jacobs, Ben Edwards40m
Data from Veracode and Cyentia analyzes 132k applications, >1M scans and ~10M findings and shows about 3 in 4 apps have at least one flaw and ~1 in 4 have high…
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WarezTheRemote? Under the Couch, and Listening to YouOfri Ziv, JJ Lehmann40m
Exploit demonstrates a man‑in‑the‑middle against the Comcast XR11 voice remote by impersonating the paired X1 box over RF, crashing the box’s Control Manager…
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Cryptanalysis IILenka Mareková, Karen Klein, Serge Vaudenay40m
Reverse-engineering of Bridgefy shows Bluetooth mesh uses Gzip then RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 per-block, letting an attacker perform a compression-oracle style…
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From Existential to Reality: 3 Experts on the Evolution of ICS ThreatsKim Zetter, Wade Chmielinski, Bryson Bort, Ben Miller26m
Ransomware starts in IT but routinely breaks operations by hitting ERP, HMIs and billing systems that OT depends on, so attackers shift from simple encryptions…
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Lessons From Our Zero Trust Journey: Successes, Failures & Dodging PitfallsJames Carder40m
Organization starts Zero Trust in 2017 and completes a four year journey by rearchitecting around Google’s BeyondCorp approach, Okta for IAM, LogRhythm for…
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Your Fraud Metrics Suck, Losing Money and C-Suite Ignoring You – Now What?Jim Ducharme40m
Fraud metrics that matter are concrete: show dollars lost and avoided, intervention rates and targets, and customer impact tied to revenue and card…
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Ransomware: New Recipe For An Old DishJohn Fokker, Raj Samani40m
Ransomware shifts from spray‑and‑pray to professionalized extortion: affiliates recruit via forum job postings demanding Metasploit, Active Directory and…
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Analyst View: How To Manage Info/Cybersec Careers in a Pandemic RecessionDavid Foote40m
Data from 3,700 North American employers shows a 3.5–4 million shortfall in cybersecurity roles and a 37% CAGR in hiring demand 2012–2022, with 3.5–4 million…
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OODA Looping in a Turbulent WorldRyan Kovar40m
Applies the OODA loop to real incidents and shows concrete results: a lab query pulled DNS from a home lab and flagged 726 COVID-related domains that were…
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Evolution of AppSec: Perspectives from a Decade of Building OWASP ZAPSimon Bennetts40m
OWASP ZAP is an Apache‑2 open source web app scanner developed over a decade with concrete outputs: daemon mode and API (2011) for automation, WebSocket and…
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Pinata Time: Why We Should All Start Bashing Mules!Stacie Purcell40m
Account-opening mule rings surge during the pandemic, driven by unemployment and stimulus fraud, faster payments and abused third-party payout systems; most…
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Culture Matters—Put People at the Heart of SecurityJinan Budge40m
Argues security must shift from tools to people, showing Forrester survey evidence that leaders spend most time on stakeholders not tech and that 2019…
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How CISA Is Charting a Path Toward Defensible InfrastructureJoshua Corman, Sounil Yu40m
CISA maps the CISA Services Catalog into the Cyber Defense Matrix to spot gaps, then evaluates agency posture with five layers: recipes, pantry, grocery store…
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Securing Your Direct to Consumer Identity StrategySarah Cecchetti, Vittorio Bertocci40m
Direct-to-consumer identity needs concrete choices: require YubiKey Nano 5 support and multiple MFA options but accept SMS for reach; segment users because…
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New Face, Who Dis? Protecting Privacy in a World of SurveillanceMike Kiser40m
Argument: adversarial techniques can give individuals agency to break commercial and government facial recognition. Evidence: an Android camera app (Camera…
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Identity Resilience: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You StrongerZulfikar Ramzan40m
Argues that digital trust depends on three measurable pillars: identity assurance, access assurance and activity assurance, built on RSA-style public‑key…
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A Data Protection Problem: Insider RiskMark Wojtasiak40m
Code42 reports that employees nearly twice as likely to have leaked data since COVID and that 91% lack purpose-built tech to manage it. The concrete solution…
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Shuffling and FriendsTjerand Silde, Toomas Krips, Giuseppe Vitto40m
Paper presents a lattice-based verifiable shuffle for known content that combines Baum et al. commitments and Lyubashevsky–Neven verifiable encryption to build…
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AI: Legal and Policy Considerations and Landmines to AvoidPaul Hastings40m
Overview of U.S. policy is practical: the FTC issues high‑level AI guidance (2020) while federal strategy focuses on investment (American AI Initiative 2019)…
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Public Health Cyber War Games: How Hackers are Exploiting HealthcareCaleb Barlow, Robin Ford40m
Ransomware now causes operational harm, not just record theft: healthcare breaches rise 2,733% over a decade and a patient-facing system outage costs tens of…
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Tales from the Underground: The Vulnerability Weaponization LifecycleMayra Rosario Fuentes40m
Year‑long monitoring of 600+ English and Russian forums finds Microsoft products account for 47% of requested CVEs, average buyer offers about $2,000, and some…
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Security Champions: Drive Innovation by Creating Future Cyber WorkforceTanvi Bali40m
Proposal: build a security champions program that turns one nominee per scrum into a trained, accountable security role using the NIST NICE framework and a…
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Web Attacks and Fraud: Lessons Learned from the Deep End of the PoolLori Mac Vittie, Dan Woods, Sara Boddy40m
Data from billions of automated attacks shows over 50% of breaches now stem from credential stuffing and access abuse rather than classic OWASP bugs; Shape…
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Pandemic & Peril: 3 Experts Unpack Challenges Faced in Healthcare SecurityNina Alli, Vidya Murthy, Sharka ., Caleb Barlow40m
Three seven‑minute briefs that hit concrete claims and examples: medical device security needs cryptography, behavior monitoring, and vulnerability management…
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Blind Spots: Two Cloud Threats You Didn’t Even Know You HadMatthew Chiodi40m
Research finds massive, concrete blind spots: a red team spins up an external account, enumerates public GitHub and Google artifacts, and with a misconfigured…
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Total Security: Investigative Perspectives from Public to Private SectorShawn Henry, Mary Galligan, CJ Moses40m
Argues that security must cover a 360° attack surface—virtual, IT, operational and physical—using threat intelligence to turn attribution (rarely 100% but…
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Lessons Learned from Diverse Paths to Successful Cybersecurity CareersJohn Pescatore, Lodrina Cherne, Inno Eroraha, Xena Olsen40m
Four panelists trace concrete career moves: from hands‑on C/C++ and assembly work to creating automation tooling for Marine Corps security operations, founding…
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Making Sense of the Landscape of Attacks and Defenses Against AIElham Tabassi, Paul Rowe40m
NCCoE and MITRE present a concrete, modular testbed for measuring attacks and defenses on image classifiers, claiming it makes combinatorial experiments…
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Sherlock and Watson Fight Deep Social EngineeringUri Rivner, Erin Englund40m
Multiple case studies show criminals trick victims into moving their own money: remote-access scams using TeamViewer, real-time voice scams to harvest OTPs and…
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All Your LAN are Belong to Us. Managing the Real Threats to Remote Workers.Wicus Ross, Charl van der Walt40m
Research shows home routers run DNSmasq and contain unpatched flaws and botnet infections including Mariah with peaks of ~500,000 compromised devices, enabling…
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Fighting Where They Aren't: How Attackers Avoid Endpoints in Modern AttacksBrian Vecci, Snir Ben Shimol40m
Shows four concrete breach paths and how to detect them: unpatched gateways (Fortinet and exposed RDP/VPN credentials), on‑prem Exchange ProxyLogon, the…
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Upskilling, Credentials and Soft Skills: Closing the Cyber Workforce GapJonathan Brandt, Caitlin McGaw, Gregory Touhill40m
ISACA’s 2021 survey of 3,600+ cybersecurity leaders finds 61% understaffed, 50% say applicants aren’t well qualified and only 27% grads well prepared, with…
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COVID Contact Tracing Apps: Balancing Privacy, Security, and HealthSheila Sokolowski, Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna40m
Most COVID apps use Google/Apple Bluetooth API or Bluetooth protocols like DP‑3T rather than GPS, and countries choose centralized vs decentralized storage…
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The Cyber Solarium Commission: What is Left to Be Done?Catherine Lotrionte, Paul Rosenzweig, Frank Cilluffo, Tom Corcoran40m
Panel reviews a 2020 report with over 80 recommendations and 27 provisions codified into law, then lists concrete next steps: stand up a Joint Collaborative…
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MDR: Making Sense of the Veg-o-Matic Buzzword BlenderDiana Kelley, Lisa Lee40m
Provides a practical taxonomy of MEDR/MTDR/MXDR and spells out four supplier models: bring your own stack, vendor-supplied, vendor-built lock-in, and blended…
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Your Breached Controls May Have Been Reasonable After AllBill Sampson, James Trilling, Phyllis Lee, David Cohen, Chris Cronin50m
A new reasonableness formula adds utility to Learned Hand’s cost‑benefit algebra and turns on measurable facts: whether MFA or another control was available…
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Doing the Safety Dance: Will Trusted Execution Environments Protect Us?Sarah Novotny40m
Confidential computing uses hardware Trusted Execution Environments to protect data in use and entire application memory, not just keys, and the industry is…
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Measuring the Ethical Behavior of TechnologyCam Geer, Lisa LeVasseur40m
Me2B Alliance builds a measurable ethical yardstick: a draft spec (v1.0 in ballot) plus a Me2B rules framework validated by ethnographic research and a year of…
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New Normal, New Security? Five Security Trends to Watch in 2021 and BeyondNicolas Fischbach, Nicolai Solling40m
Forcepoint X‑Labs and Help AG identify five concrete shifts: rapid adoption of SASE and risk‑adaptive DLP as security becomes a business differentiator and…
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Human Behavior Reveals it AllMargaret Cunningham40m
A human-centric systems model maps four changeable components — human behavior, implicit environment, organizational culture, proximity perspective — and uses…
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Extreme Makeover: Privacy EditionAngelique Carson, Ron De Jesus, Ruby Zefo, Susan Hintze40m
Panelists describe concrete steps: secure tone from the top then multiply it across product and legal teams; embed privacy checks into the existing security…
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How Governments Can Promote a Secure 5G EcosystemCourtney Lang, Scott Charney, Danielle Kriz, Shehzad Merchant40m
Governments are moving from vendor bans toward holistic risk management, citing ENISA December 2020 guidance and the EU 5G Toolbox while wrestling with supply…
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Building Resilience Standards, ResilientlyMike Boyle, Jessica Fitzgerald-McKay40m
Standards history shows concrete wins and stumbles: NIST SP 800-183 expands firmware resilience beyond BIOS, while the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) exists…
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Jill and the BeenSTALKedXena Olsen40m
Commercial stalkerware runs as hidden apps or iCloud access, costs $50–$200 subscriptions, and harvests texts, calls, GPS, photos and deleted messages after…
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Challenge Accepted: 3 Experts, 3 Big Ideas on Supply Chain SecurityAlyssa Feola, Beau Woods, Matt Wyckhouse, Allan Friedman38m
Shows how to make device supply chains auditable end to end: adopt DeviceSecOps with SCA, SAST, DAST, manual pentest and Site Acceptance Tests for final units…
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Super Apps and Digital Wallets: Securing the Unstoppable ForceLee Cookman, Loren Russon, Neill Campbell, Julie Conroy40m
Panel argues the pandemic accelerates payment digitization with concrete numbers: 39% tried new digital products and merchants see a 25% e‑commerce jump, while…
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Thank You, Next! Protecting Next-Generation OT NetworksChris Williams40m
OT networks now host 10–100x more compute, widespread embedded OS devices like Raspberry Pi, and cloud data lakes, so the Purdue DMZ alone is insufficient…
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Building a CISO Response Strategy to Advanced ThreatsJeff Costlow40m
SUNBURST shows supply‑chain compromises can live inside networks for dwell time nearly a year, so assume logs and EDR may be tampered and invest in network…
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One 1st Responder to Another - Lessons on Managing Stress from the TrenchesEdward Vasko, Carol Barkes40m
Cybersecurity teams operate like first responders, and that constant need to be right 100% creates toxic stress that Gallup flags as the worst mental health in…
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The Risk You Never Knew Existed: Security and the Gig EconomyJames Christiansen40m
Gig workers now make up over 50% of global workers, a third of US workers, and 90% say they would freelance, with the gig workforce growing three times faster…
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AI-Powered! Or Is It Just Hype?!Michael Hadjimichael, Anne Townsend40m
A lightweight acquisition framework called RX (Relevance, Competence, Cost) assesses whether an AI component is necessary, how well it performs, and what…
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Liberal Democratic Values and the Geopolitics of TechnologyTobias Feakin40m
Australia publishes a claimed world‑first International Cyber and Critical Technology Engagement Strategy that organizes action around values, security…
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Understanding Impact of Foreign Influence Activities on Research ProgramsAllen Phelps40m
Based on 2,500 insider investigations the claim is that about 5% of employees present an insider-risk vector and roughly 3,000 talent programs pursue Western…
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A Year Spent Virtually: The Lasting Effect of the COVID Pandemic on PrivacyJulie Brill40m
Panel argues the pandemic accelerates a permanent digital shift and exposes concrete harms: intimate imagery complaints jump 250% rise in Australia, sextortion…
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Zero Trust and Privacy: Moving Security Closer to the TargetWes Gyure40m
Claims that one in five consumers avoid brands over data practices and 19% switched to competitors frame a practical zero trust plan: combine telemetry from…
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Getting Cybersecurity Funding from Your CEO: the 5 Critical StepsCynthia James40m
Five concrete steps: tailor the ask to the budget owner and use persona language, make two asks (permission to present strategy and to run an executive…
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The Skeptic's Guide to Using XDR to Get Zero TrustGreg Young40m
Claims that XDR is a data lake plus ML/AI and built-in response drive the talk: XDR must ingest EDR, network, email, cloud and CASB/API telemetry, not just…
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Leveraging Human Risk Data to Strengthen Cyber ResiliencyMasha Sedova, Michelle Valdez40m
Claims a dataset of 4.5 million employee security decisions across ~114,000 people and shows actionable results: non‑contractors and first‑line managers click…
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Due to Less Pollution, Secrets Stored on the Cloud are Now Clearly VisibleRod Soto, Jose Hernandez40m
They build and run an automated scanner called git-wild-hunt against GitHub, index matches into Splunk and output a results.json file; over eight months it…
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Building Privacy-Resilient IdentityAnkur Patel, Daniel Buchner40m
Demo shows Azure AD + Microsoft Authenticator issuing W3C Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials for remote onboarding, with document…
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Ditching Run-To-Failure as Part of a Winning ICS StrategyMarty Edwards40m
Argues that run-to-failure is far more expensive than proactive OT cyber maintenance and that incident response is roughly an order of magnitude costlier than…
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Ticking ‘Cyber Bomb’: Is There a Global Response to Fix Value-Chain Risks?Craig Jones40m
Panel argues that global value‑chain risk is fixable only with sustained cross‑sector cooperation and clear legal rules, not just tech tips. Examples: a…
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Cybersecurity for Future Extreme ComputingAnne Fitzpatrick40m
High-performance computing is a specialized, shared system that uses exotic interconnects and software, serves hundreds of users who resist overhead, and faces…
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Better Call Brussels - News on European Cyber Security and eID RegulationKim Nguyen40m
EU lawmakers push a revised eIDAS within months and propose a European Digital Identity that interops with existing national schemes rather than a single tech…
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How Digitizing the Workers Advances the CISO's GoalsTim Callahan, Chris Sullivan40m
Aflac and Nymi describe a deployed wearable program that proves identity at the edge, ties physical and logical access together, and feeds a curated privacy…
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Optimizing Operations: Simplification, Visibility, Response and AutomationJoakim Lialias40m
Claims that integration investment reduces siloed controls and that Cisco centralizes investigations with Investigation Workbench to correlate endpoint and…
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How the Identity Portions of CCPA Regs Put Consumers and Businesses at RiskJeremy Grant40m
California regs let an account holder get data with password-only access, and non‑account requests pass if the business matches two-item KBA for categories or…
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From Zero to Hero at the EdgeSteve Winterfeld40m
Argues that adopting a SASE platform and a Zero Trust first priority cuts vendor sprawl (cites examples like 500 vendors and a 63‑person shop) by consolidating…
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A Year of Living Dangerously: Resilience After COVID & Killer HornetsPatrica Titus40m
Panel recounts concrete operational moves: campus IT sends hotspot-in-parking-lot kits and ships loaner laptops, a university runs 30,000 tests/week while…
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Operational Collaboration: Enhancing Cyber ReadinessErica Borghard40m
Conference panel argues the nation lacks a focal system for national‑security‑level cyber readiness and offers concrete fixes: four plausible future scenarios…
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Visible Figures: Bridging the Skills Gap With Inclusion and Equal OpportunityJohn Yeoh40m
Claims a pilot apprenticeship turns people with little or no technical background into fit-for-purpose GRC analysts in seven months, using ISO 27001, CCSK…
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Empowering Hybrid Workforce With Security-driven Networking For All EdgesNirav Shah40m
Claims that a unified, security-first platform fixes remote-work gaps by combining SD-WAN with cloud-delivered SASE and an always-on agent for off-network…
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Rebels & Resilience—Why It Pays Off to Break Your Patterns!Daniel Kroiss, Madita Fuehrer40m
Claims that breaking organizational habits improves security resilience are grounded in a concrete method: apply Francesca Gino’s rebel talents model to…
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Taking Back Your Brand: New Techniques to Stop RobocallersJosh Bercu, Mike Rudolph40m
YouMail operates a sensor network fed by 10 million YouMail users and reports US unwanted calls rising from nearly 60 billion in 2019 to a rebound over 60…
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One Step Ahead: Keeping Security at the ForefrontAnna Wheeler, Kelley Misata, Theo Zafirakos, Michael Sechrist40m
Ransomware surges in May 2020 lead to a rise in double extortion attacks and prompt creation of a COVID-19 cyber threat coalition that shares indicators and…
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Lessons Learned From Taking Justice Remote During the COVID PandemicJack McCarthy, Sajed Naseem40m
New Jersey Courts rapidly shifts from near‑100% in‑person to remote, scaling VPN to ~7,500 connections and VDI to 1,500 concurrent sessions, migrating much…
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What is New in California Privacy and What Does it Mean for the Company?Carla Utter, Lothar Determann40m
CPRA amends CCPA and creates a new enforcement agency, with major changes effective Jan 1, 2023 (some provisions effective Dec 16, 2020); compliance is…
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A Sustainable Security Workforce Starts at the Local Coffee ShopAlyssa Miller40m
Research surveys thousands of job-seekers and hiring managers and analyzes postings to show a systemic mismatch: hiring practices demand CISSP and degrees for…
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How to Prioritize in the New NormalBobbie Stempfley, Mike Brannon, Terry Griffith, Mark Weatherford40m
Panelists report concrete shifts: rapid moves to public cloud, retirement of a mainframe, and expedited infrastructure projects that enable a full work from…
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Your Cyber Journey – You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ YetLisa Lee, Patti Titus, Aimee Larsen-Kirkpatrick, Michelle Dennedy40m
Panel revisits careers since 2013 and gives concrete takeaways: the public campaign Stop, Think, Connect launches at the White House; a pragmatic book called…
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Open Source as Your Career CatapultGregory Bell40m
Stories about moving from hobby to jobs and companies using Snort, Suricata and Zeek (Bro), building Security Onion into a product with 2 million downloads and…
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End the Battle Between Security and ProductivityAndrew Hewitt, David Holmes40m
Claim: adopting Zero Trust measurably raises security and productivity by removing friction. Evidence: research shows technology drives ~30% of employee…
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Work Smarter Not Harder: Tips to Approach Cloud Security the Easier WayErin Sindelar40m
Cloud misconfigurations cause most incidents: research cites 65–70% of cloud issues start with misconfiguration and Trend Micro claims 840 million…
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Symmetric DesignYuqing Zhao40m
Three short, concrete results: a new small‑state AEAD called FAN claims FAN: 192‑bit state, 128‑bit key, 64‑bit IV, 52‑round init, uses a byte‑wise S‑box and…
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When Your Dashboard Explodes – Do You Care Enough to Send the Very Best?Elliott Franklin40m
Case study of a security dashboard that stops being trusted after cloud and sandboxing rules break phishing telemetry, forcing a two‑month pause, internal…
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Municipal Cybersecurity: Building the "Last Mile" of ResiliencyStephanie Helm, Curtis M. Wood, Jeanne Benincasa Thorpe, Mike Kennealy40m
Massachusetts describes specific municipal fixes: a state cyber center convenes a monthly working group, funds grants and an office of municipal school…
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How to Guide: Using ISSA/ESG Research Data For Your BenefitCandy Alexander, Jon Oltsik40m
Annual survey of 489 respondents finds a real skills gap: 57% report being impacted, 62% report increased workloads, 38% report burnout, and 76% say recruiting…
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Partnering with HR to Build a Culture of CybersecuritySteve Luczynski, Valerie Utsey40m
Security pairs with HR to change behavior, not just push slides: replace annual training with monthly 3–5 minute micro-training, make completion a policy…
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ImplementationMustafa Khairallah, Arseniy Kharitonov, Gaétan Leurent, Zakaria Najm, Thomas Peyrin, Vesselin Velichkov40m
Framework reports a modular pipeline that embeds Paar/BP/Tan–Peyrin heuristics, applies local reduction rules and finds what it claims is the current shortest…
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As Worlds Collide: Responding to Cyber Events in a Converged IT/OT UniverseMatthew Dobbs, John Clarke40m
IT/OT convergence increases attack surface so teams run tabletop games, cyber ranges and capture‑the‑flag exercises to simulate specific failures like…
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Knowledge Glaciers in the Age of Automation and Cloud NativeEmily Fox40m
Claim: institutional knowledge built over decades is melting because cloud utility models, orchestration and heavy automation consolidate expertise into opaque…
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Multi-Front War: Mitigating Cyber Risk and Maximizing SecurityScott Register40m
Panelists urge concrete steps: maintain an exercised ransomware playbook, first 72 hours checklist printed offline, isolate infected segments and hunt for…
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Adapt to the New, Unstable Normal: How to Secure the Roaring 2020sLaura Koetzle40m
Five pandemic-driven shifts claim long-term impact: customer demand balances safety and convenience (48% of Italians and 40% of Americans want to return to…
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Through the Zoom Dimly: A Year of Remote AuditsJacob Ansari40m
Standards bodies (PCI SCC, ISO, A2LA) allow remote assessments with documented exceptions, but PCI PIN/P2PE requires on‑site key operations so a few hours…
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Justified Insomnia – Protecting against Lazy and Sophisticated Cyber CriminalsCharles Eagan40m
Claims that enterprises must adopt a zero-trust model and practical steps from BlackBerry’s 2021 threat report: a machine learning antivirus (Cylance tech)…
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Transformation of the Digital LeaderScott Howitt40m
CIO role shifts from cost controller to innovation leader with concrete examples: Tencent turns WeChat into payments and services, launching virtual red…
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A "Great Equalizer", Until it Isn't: Regional Security in a Global PandemicAllie Mellen, Kerissa Varma40m
Comparative analysis of 17 countries shows concrete outcomes: 40% of enterprises lack a business continuity plan pre-pandemic, Jan–Jul losses to COVID scams…
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