Make the Travel Stop – ESW #174
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1. Enterprise News – ESW #174
News from Nozomi Networks, Code42, CrowdStrike, SCYTHE, Palo Alto Networks, Gurucul, SentinelOne and more!
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2. RSAC Micro Interview – Elastic & Rapid7 – Mike Nichols, Tod Beardsley – ESW #174
It is no secret that elections are under constant attack. Attacks take many shapes and forms, from dis-information to malware to denial of service, its all in play as adversaries look to disrupt enemy infrastructure. Tod Beardsley, Director of Research at Rapid 7 brings unique and insightful perspectives on this topic as he is analyzing data from scans of the entire Internet and monitoring over 250 honeypots.Mike Nichols, Head of Product at Elastic, discusses election security and their partnership with the DDC to offer 2020 campaigns free security.
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Tod Beardsley is employed at CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the US government. He’s also a founder and CNA point of contact for AHA!. He spends most of his time involved in vulnerability research and coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD). He has over 30 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern IoT implementations. He has held IT ops, security, software engineering, and management positions in large organizations such as Rapid7, 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Tod is a CVE Board member has authored several research papers, and hosted the Security Nation podcast. He is also a Travis County Election Judge in Texas, and is an internationally-tolerated horror fiction expert.
Mike leads Product Management at Elastic Security and is the former Vice President of Product Management at Endgame. He manages the PM team and ensures the product team is constantly listening to customers, researching the market, and deriving differentiated technology in order to choose the best strategic path for the company. Mike is also a Cybersecurity Strategy Instructor at Georgetown.
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3. RSAC Micro Interview – Plextrac & Gravwell – Corey Thuen, Daniel DeCloss – ESW #174
Dashboards are a great way to enable junior security analysts to be more effective when trying to discover security events. Cory Thuen is the Founder and CEO of Gravwell, and they want to your logs, all of your logs. Gravwell's solution allows you to run queries and create dashboards that lead to actionable events. Cory explains how this works and even how customers are using Gravwell to collect logs on-premise and in the cloud. Vulnerabilities and exposures come from many different sources. Plextrac allows you to bring in data from anywhere and track those findings across your entire organization.
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Corey Thuen is a founder of Gravwell and has spent over a decade doing cybersecurity at places like Department of Energy national labs, Digital Bond, and IOActive. That experience is now driving development of a full-stack analytics platform built to alleviate pain points he personally experienced from inflexible tools.
Dan has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity. Dan started his career in the Department of Defense and then moved on to consulting where he worked for various companies. Prior to PlexTrac, Dan was the Director of Cybersecurity for Scentsy where he and his team built the security program out of its infancy into a best-in-class program. Dan has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School with an emphasis in Information Security. Additionally, Dan holds the OSCP and CISSP certifications.