General Sessions

Information Security Decisions is a customized educational conference designed by the editors of Information Security magazine and SearchSecurity.com. The conference offers you a soup-to-nuts agenda focused on the latest security trends, technologies and tools. Delivered over two days, the conference features daily keynotes, emerging technology showcases and breakout sessions (each accompanied by live "how-to" tutorials) that span the following:

General Sessions:

The State of Incident Response
Kevin Mandia, President & CEO, MANDIANT

During the last six months, Kevin Mandia has responded to over 10 computer security incidents at some of America's largest organizations. He was on the front lines assisting these organizations in responding to international computer intrusions, theft of intellectual property, electronic discovery issues, and widespread compromise of sensitive data.

Discover what precipitated the incidents and how they were detected by organizations. Get a rare glance at the in-depth forensics and interprets how the response teams handled the incidents effectively. Explore first-hand examples of how these incidents impacted victim organizations, and discusses the challenges each organization faced.

Hackernomics
Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist, People Security

Legislation, financially driven attackers and high profile breaches have changed the economics of security. We need to rethink the motivations of attackers and the new attacker economy given a growing stolen identity information trade and the rise of organized electronic crime. We need to study "hackernomics", the social science concerned with description and analysis of attacker motivations, economics and business risk. In this presentation Dr. Herbert Thompson vividly illustrates the laws of hackernomics and looks at how to think like an attacker. Warning: there will be live exploits; software will be harmed during this presentation!

Tips for Learning and Practicing Security Agility
 Joel Snyder, Senior Partner, Opus One

Organizations today require agility to thrive and survive. New knowledge workers, known as Generation Y, enter the work force and operate best in an environment where home and work overlap from an IT/networking/communications point of view. In order to keep pace with Generation Y, your IT department must be as agile and mobile as the organization. More importantly, you must plan, design and build for mobility and agility to respond to the needs of your organization. In this session, Joel Snyder helps you become more mobile by keeping your security posture. Attend and discover:

  • How to build more agile IT security processes
  • How to avoid the 'vendor lock' with mobile devices and successfully have more than one device
    in your shop
  • The real security issues of wireless and VLANs
  • An in-depth look at perimeter security vs. deep defenses