Cyber Resilience in the Ransomware and Wiper Era New Strategies for CISOs to Protect
Threat actors never stop working and employing new tools to hold your data hostage and take your business down. Attack vectors are often multifaceted and evasive. And the risk of reinjecting vulnerabilities, compromised accounts, and other attack artifacts back into your environment is a pervasive threat. Compared to previous data exfiltration attacks, CISOs and their teams must employ new cyber resilience strategies to protect organizations from ransomware and wiper attacks, and update response strategies to minimize impact. Join this session to learn:
- How the threat landscape has changed due to ransomware and wiper attacks
- How IT and Security teams and improve collaboration to minimize the impact
- New response strategies that lower risk and streamline recovery from an attack
Speakers
Parham Eftekhari is a business executive specializing in cyber and national security. He currently serves as Executive Vice President, CISO Communities at CyberRisk Alliance, leading its CISO services platform which consists of the Cybersecurity Collaborative and Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum. Parham also serves as the chairman of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), the nation’s leading cybersecurity think tank, which he founded in 2014. Other leadership roles during his more than 15 years in this sector include co-founder and Vice President of research at the Government Technology Research Alliance, founder of the world’s first webcam cover manufacturer CamPatch, and Advisory Board member at the Ready Rock Institute. Parham has developed and authored multiple research publications, regularly engages with the media, and has addressed forums ranging from Congress, TED, RSA, and C-SPAN. In 2017, Parham was recognized by (ISC)2 for his contributions to the field of cybersecurity with the Most Valuable Industry Partner – Government Information Security Leadership Award.
James is a Global Cyber Resiliency Strategist for Cohesity where he works with
customers to transform and maturity their cyber resiliency based on his
hands-on experience in leading incident response in dozens of ransomware and
wiper incidents; as the former CISO of Mimecast and Global Director of Cyber
Transformation at JPMorgan Chase; and having lead a consultancy practice that
built the end-to-end security operation center capability for over 91
organizations including over two dozen in the FORTUNE 100.