Wash Your Hands! – ESW #177
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1. Threat Stack, Qualys, StackRox, Sysdig – ESW #177
How to Write an Automated Test Framework in a Million Little Steps, Qualys remote endpoint protection solution helps enterprises secure remote workforces, Sysdig Provides the First Cloud-Scale Prometheus Monitoring Offering, Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 adds protection for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams and more!
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2. Keeping Systems Secure…From Home – Sumedh Thakar – ESW #177
The cybersecurity challenges created by remote workforces and what it takes to deliver security to remote workers while avoiding impacting business operations. How do you continue vulnerability and patch management across endpoints and servers when everyone is working from home?
To learn more about Qualys, visit: https://securityweekly.com/qualys
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As CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. Since 2014, he has served as Chief Product Officer at Qualys, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24×7 follow-the-sun product team.
Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.
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3. Windows Exploits, Re-Training Your Security Solutions – Tod Beardsley – ESW #177
Tod Beardsley, research director, will discuss some of the trends in Internet scanning and attacker behavior given there are new Windows vulnerabilities and the workforce working from home. Should you re-train your User Behavior Analytics (UBA) and/or rely on other technologies?
To learn more about Rapid7 or to get a free trial, visit: https://securityweekly.com/rapid7
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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.
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