It is that time again for one of the hottest cybersecurity conferences to take place in SF. Nearly 45,000 industry people attend each year which provides opportunities for much-needed in-person interaction and the chance to have meaningful conversations to understand the state of the industry. Take advantage of your peers' experience, compare notes, and even learn new techniques to boost your own skill sets.
We all recognize that attacks and compromises aren't going away. Instead, they're growing and becoming more costly. You gotta look at the real reasons behind why this is.
This proposed topic is even aligned with this year's conference theme: "stronger together." Instead of jumping to the next buzzwordy topic, let's take advantage of the opportunity to meet in person, look at some of the areas where the same types of compromises keep happening and what's each of our take on it. Let's spend more time focusing on an area that we don't talk enough about but should: where we - as security practitioners, experts, and vendors - are right now, and what we need to do collectively to be better.
IBM Security leads a global threat practice analyzing over 70 billion events (or points of telemetry) every single day, that's a heck of a lot of noise to filter through. Our X-Force team is staffed with some of the best incident responders in the business that do threat hunting, not only across managed client data, but also across the deep dark web. Through our partnership efforts with Quad9, a secure global DNS provider, we track over 120 threat actor groups as part of our ongoing threat research. This sampling of global threat analytics and service delivery gives us an incredibly unique perspective.
We welcome the opportunity to connect with you and talk about this new era of security.
You can book executive meetings with our leadership by emailing me directly via alexandra.hurtado@ibm.com or use this RSA Meeting Scheduling Tool.
------------------------------
Alexandra Hurtado
WW IBM Security Software Tech Lead
------------------------------