Gar O’Hara, Mimecast and Amy Holden, Mimecast
Over the year we have interviewed CISOs, authors, academics, psychologists, CEOs, change managers and security practitioners to gaining their insights into key themes and lessons for cyber resilience in 2020.Â
This talk distils a year of conversations into tangible takeaways across the importance of people, technology, industry trends and collaboration.  We were lucky to be joined by some of Australia and the world’s most respected cyber resilience leaders; this talk is a shortcut to their wisdom. Â
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Jinan Budge, Forrester
Personally and professionally, 2020 was not the year security and risk pros wanted or expected. But it is a year that taught us what we could endure. 2021 will not see things return to normal — yet — but it will be the beginning of the transition back to normal. This will simultaneously require us to adapt while remaining resilient. In 2021, organisations will continue to adapt to new business models and changing customer expectations simply because they must in the face of economic uncertainty, social movements, and changing geopolitics. This will have significant impact for information and IT security professionals across the globe.
This session will discuss Forrester’s Cybersecurity predictions for 2021 including:
- Increase of data breach causes by insider incidents
- Repercussions for CISOs instilling a toxic security culture
- Increased breaches to retail and manufacturing due to direct-to-consumer shift
A&NZ CISOs
Learn from four key Mimecast customers discussing business advice for security leaders in this case study panel
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- Kim Valois, Chief Information Security Officer, Flinders University
- Jo Stewart-Rattray, Chief Security Officer, Silver Chain
- Sunil Saale, Head of Cyber and Information Security, MinterEllison
- Nigel Hedges, Head of Information Security, CPA Australia
Herbert Roitblat, Mimecast
New methods of perpetrating cybercrime keep evolving. Protecting against past attacks with yesterday’s methods is no longer a viable strategy. Attackers often use artificial intelligence to find ways to circumvent conventional defenses. As a result, future security depends strongly on the development of effective countermeasures, that can not only defend against known threats, but anticipate new ones as they evolve. We cannot find, train, and hire enough human analysts to possibly keep up with the volume, variety, velocity, and adaptability of emerging threats. Predictive threat hunting relies in part on artificial intelligence to extract understanding from identified emerging threats and to proactively identify and neutralise future threats. We must also broaden our understanding of what constitutes effective countermeasures, strengthening internal monitoring as well as effectively blocking threats at the boundary. Artificial intelligence is essential to finding effective, predictive, solutions.
Joseph Tibbetts, Mimecast and Scott McKellar, Mimecast
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Realise the value and power of the Mimecast ecosystem and how we can assist with advanced threat sharing, as well as gained productivity by IT and security teams. We’ll talk through the value of integrating your security solutions with Mimecast including a high level walk-through of some of the existing turn-key integrations with Crowdstrike, Palo Alto and ServiceNow.
When will we get cybersecurity herd immunity in Australia? Â How can we use aptitude to measure skills potential and set ourselves for training success?
Can Quantum future-proof or potentially unhinge our digital systems? And why aren’t hackers like Angelina Jolie? Let’s walk through the status quo and challenge our ideas of what cybersecurity looks like from a leadership perspective. Challenge current thinking and recognise what pathways we have that we can start down now to ensure that corporate Australia can lead the charge and help secure our sovereign systems.
For security teams on the front lines and those of us in the business of stopping cyberattacks and breaches, 2021 provided no rest for the weary. In the face of massive disruption brought about by the COVID- driven social, economic and technological shifts of 2020, adversaries refined their tradecraft to become even more sophisticated and brazen. We discuss key data points and how our industry is combatting the adversarial plague.
Kiri Aderson, Security Efficacy Product Manager, Mimecast
Threat actors are constantly developing new and improved techniques to deliver phishing attacks. Learn about some of the current trends in the threat landscape and the improvements we are making to the Mimecast detection stack to help you fightback. Specific topics will include: abuse of file sharing sites, multi-stage phishing attacks and a sneak preview of our new machine learning model for zero-day phishing detection.
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Michael Ferguson, Netskope SSE Evangelist, will talk about how the new security architecture of Security Services Edge will provide businesses with outcomes and capabilities we haven't had before. During his session Michael Ferguson will discuss the potential of Context Based Policies to deliver Zero Trust Frameworks, AI/ML to assist your team in protecting your digital assets in the cloud, and how cloud based access doesn't need to have a trade-off in performance, experience or security.
When the scales are tipped in an attacker's favour and teams don't have the time to do it all, traditional SecOps approaches to implement detection and response capabilities can add to the chaos.Â
In this session, we will explore the necessary evolution of detection and response, moving past SIEM, to fulfill the desire for something better. You'll learn how XDR, powered by unique collaborators like Rapid7 and Mimecast can give you the freedom to focus on what matters most.
