Those that know me know that I love to listen and process the lessons learned and observations of my peers in the security industry. I know and appreciate the art of our professional. Individuals matter.
This past Wednesday, I had the awesome opportunity to channel the strengths of 7 distinguished “artists” from 7 of the top security brands of our industry at SecureWorld Boston during a lively panel discussion on the Current Threatscape. The panelists were Bill Sweeney (BAE Systems), Jason Georgi (Zscaler), Victor Danevich (Infoblox), Meghan Diaz (Open DNS), Rob Sadowski (RSA), Ron Winward (Radware), and Ben Johnson (Carbon Black)
We started by looking at how the threat landscape has changed in just the last year. One panelist thought we should break it down further since the change agent is so fluid. If you’re not plugged in, you’d better be! We proceeded to explore Ransomware, DNS, application-layer attacks, endpoints, nation state advisories, and threat operations. An hour could have been spent on each area but all I had was an hour!
Gauging from the audience all appeared intrigued with the painting that was unfolding. The panelists did an awesome job filling in any cracks left from the answers proceeding before them. It kind of felt like rapid fire with a fine concentration around my agenda bullseye.
I obviously had too much to do to capture a picture of the final masterpiece. If you attended the session, please comment on your main takeaways from the session!
I’d like to personally thank Kerry Nelson and Shauna De La Mare from SecureWorld Expo for roping me into facilitating this panel! Who would have thought a computer scientist could help shape a new piece of the art of security?
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