Name: Mastering Identity Sprawl: Centralizing IAM for Enhanced Security
Start: 2025-02-05T22:00:00Z
End: 2025-02-05T22:01:00.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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In the ever-evolving landscape of DevOps, the paradigm is now shifting - where security is taking the central stage. With vast surface areas including containers, cloud, repositories and third-party components, cyber threats became more prominent than ever before in DevOps.

This presentation will delve into the evolution from traditional DevOps to the advanced usage of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate and optimize the software development and delivery processes. This includes automating code scanning, testing and deployment processes while eliminating the threats in each possible way in the cycle. 

In this session, join Jyotirmayee Pradeep Kumar (Vice President - Cloud DevOps at a well-known global bank) as she unravels the stages of integration of AI at each phase of DevOps. Topics for discussion include:
- Types of AI used in DevOps. 
- Benefits of using AI in DevOps.
- Implementation of AI in DevOps.
- Best practices for using AI in DevOps.
- Eliminating security threats using AI in DevOps.

Security Risks to Consider with AI Integration: AI in DevOps

In a world where the vast majority of cyber attacks leverage access-based methods to gain entry to an organization's resources, how can you be sure your organization remains secure?

This session explores best practices for ensuring all employees have the access they need, while ensuring that access is revoked promptly when they no longer need it. It starts with the reality that most enterprises have grown to large to rely on manual efforts, needing a combination of identity access management tools, implemented appropriately, and includes:

- The importance of creating a role-based access provisioning program that follows employees through their entire organizational lifecycle, from onboarding, through job changes, transfers and eventually, separation from the organization
- Automating and integrating the need for privileged access with the organization's change management process 

Be prepared for a primer in how to get started on this journey and make it successful over the long term.

Stay Safe: Managing Employee Access from Cradle to Grave

Privileged access management (PAM) is evolving to meet the challenges of modern centralized, decentralized, distributed networks, and endpoints. Cutting-edge solutions now incorporate AI-driven anomaly detection to monitor and flag unusual privileged account behavior, coupled with just-in-time (JIT) privilege escalation for temporary, task-specific access. Unified dashboards enhance visibility and streamline management across hybrid IT environments.

In decentralized networks, blockchain technology ensures tamper-proof identity management, while decentralized authentication leverages cryptographic keys to reduce reliance on central directories. Federated access models facilitate secure privilege sharing across domains without exposing sensitive credentials.

For distributed networks, Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) enforces continuous verification of users and devices, while edge computing integration secures privileged access directly at network endpoints. Dynamic policy enforcement adapts in real time, responding to contextual factors like user location or device status.

On endpoints, Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) minimizes attack surfaces by granting least-privilege access. Device-centric identity management ties privileges to specific devices, and behavioral analytics monitor endpoint activities for unauthorized privilege use. These advancements collectively enable robust, scalable, and context-aware PAM strategies across diverse network architectures.
Discover how rigorous inspection, computing science, algebra, and technology combine to combat unauthorized access, protect company assets, and build user trust.

Developments in Privileged Access Management

In an era of tightening regulations and increasing AI-driven fraud, securing systems without traditional photo IDs is increasingly difficult. Over a billion people globally lack conventional identification, and many more face barriers in proving their identity. How can organizations ensure robust security without excluding these users?

In this session, Jaye Hackett (CTO, Vouchsafe, they/them) explores how businesses can leverage alternative signals such as social proof, online activity, and trust networks to verify identities effectively. Join them to discover how inclusive identity verification methods can expand user reach, meet compliance requirements, and protect against emerging threats.

Key Takeaways:
- Practical Methods for Identity Verification Without Photo ID: Learn actionable strategies to authenticate users using non-traditional signals.
- Leveraging Trust Networks to Mitigate Fraud: Understand how networks of trust can enhance security and reduce fraudulent activities.
- Designing Scalable, Inclusive Identity Processes: Gain insights into creating identity verification processes that are both accessible and scalable.

About the Speaker
Jaye is a co-founder of Vouchsafe, a tech-for-good company building inclusive identity verification.

As a designer and technologist, they have built large-scale digital trust systems, including key work on the NHS coronavirus contact tracing app, and led transformative public service projects.

Identity Verification in the Age of AI Fraud

Remote and hybrid work remains a mainstay of most work environments post COVID-19 pandemic. Contrary to initial worries, the much-hyped IT security issues that most people dreaded from a remote and hybrid work setting did not adversely impact their organizations. This is due to the robust application of relevant IT governance, risk and compliance or IT GRC frameworks. 

In this presentation, Ralph Villanueva will speak about some of these frameworks, and why weaving them together can act like a protective web around the remote and hybrid IT ecosystem of the organization.

Applying IT GRC Solutions to Remote and Hybrid Work Security Issues

AI tools have been changing the landscape in many fields. The ability to impersonate someone using AI is of concern. Social engineering is a successful method for attackers to gain access to a network, and AI-enhanced social engineering will change the way these types of attacks will be perpetrated and how companies need to defend themselves. 

The presentation from industry thought leader Charles Kolodgy will provide useful insight and information designed to allow you to understand the increasing threat from AI enhanced social engineering and how best to defend against these types of attacks.

Join this discussion to learn:
- A quick understanding of social engineering and why it succeeds.
- Examples of how AI has been used to enhance social engineering attacks.
- What tools and options are available to defense against social engineering, including the use of defensive AI.
- How to evaluate various cybersecurity solutions that can aid in combating AI enhances social engineering.
- The importance of building a strong culture of security to combat social engineering.

Does AI Make Social Engineering Too Easy?

Senior management often has a fundamental question regarding cyberattacks: How would cyberattacks affect our organization?  Business impact analyses (BIA), as they have been performed for decades, are inadequate.  The determination of desired recovery times and recovery points may be meaningless in the face of stolen information and ransomware attacks that reflect what business leaders would like to be done rather than what IT can do.  Moreover, new government rules require analysis and disclosure that necessitate an understanding by executive management of what the impact of a cyberattack would be if an attack were to occur.  This session provides an approach to determining what the impact of a cyberattack would be.

Tune in to this webinar to learn:
- How cyberattacks change the context of BIA.
- What are the potential financial, operational, reputational, regulatory and societal impacts of cyberattacks.
- How to conduct a cyber impact analysis.
- How a cyber impact analysis can drive cyber resilience strategy.

Determining the Impact of Cyberattacks

Ransomware risks has the potency to affect the critical assets of organizations and wreak devastating consequences if left un-checked. This session from consultant and industry thought leader Vincent Amanyi will provide a clear strategy for managing the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model effectively to stem better control and establish high entry barrier for cybercriminal.

Key Takeaways
- Understand when to plan and implement ransomware control strategies.
- Definition of process map to incident response plan.
- How to map gap to internal research.

Roadmap to an Iron-Clad Ransomware Defense System

Ransomware continues to be a major source of risk for virtually every industry and vertical in every country. From education, government, and healthcare, to finance, consulting, and manufacturing. For-profit companies are as much a target as not-for-profit. 

The question most CIOs and CISOs are asked by the Board and the Executive Team is, “Are we protected from a ransomware attack?” 

As a security leader, the answer you want to give to that question is, “Yes we are!”

But how do you protect yourself from a ransomware attack? You know you want to do more than have a great 3-2-1 backup strategy. Great backups are table stakes in the ransomware defense playbook. With great backups you can recover quickly from an attack. 

What you really want is to have a way to prevent or at least limit the blast radius if an attack happens. 

A good strategy to reduce the risk of a successful ransomware attack is to implement the family of principals and controls outlined in the NIST Zero Trust Architecture (SP 800-207). 

Remember, the goal of the criminals in a ransomware attack is to steal and encrypt your data. They want to attack the availability leg of our CIA triad, namely the availability of your data. 

In this presentation, industry thought leader John Bruggeman will review the general components of zero trust, review how you can do a readiness assessment that will let you know where you are in your ZT journey, and how a ZT framework reduces your risk of a ransomware attack.

Reinforce Your Data Fortress: How Zero Trust Can Help Reduce Your Risk of a Ransomware Attack

Ransomware attacks are one of the most terrible outcomes of cyber breach. Whether you believe in paying ransom demands or not, you must understand the need for a negotiator in such difficult situation. We will discuss challenges, pitfalls, and factors of success that a ransomware negotiator can bring to crisis.

Key Takeaways:
- Understand components of a ransomware attack.
- Recognize intricacies of ransomware negotiations.
- Avoid mistakes frequently made during ransomware attacks.
- Recognize red flags common during ransomware attacks.

Ransomware Negotiations: Everything You Need to Know

Snippet question: There is a blurring of the lines between CISOs and Chief Data Officers, or CDOs: With the roles of CISOs and Chief Data Officers (CDOs) increasingly overlapping, particularly in the realm of data protection and recent breaches, there can be friction despite a shared goal of safeguarding enterprise assets. Toby, what are some of the things your organization is doing to stay aligned around data security?

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Snippet question: How have you managed or improved the relationship with your CDO? Where do you find a win-win?

Black Hat 2024 Snippet Video with Brett Price, Lead Cybersecurity Consultant, vCISO, AccessIT Group

Snippet question: The convergence of data and security - Does the CDO become the new CD+SO?

Black Hat 2024 Snippet Video with Matt Murphy, Lead DevSecOps Engineer & Cyber Security Architect, Beyond Finance

Snippet question: What does LevelBlue’s latest report reveal about how the C-Suite sees cyber resilience?

Black Hat 2024 Snippet Video with Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Evangelist, LevelBlue

Snippet question: What do you predict will be the most significant change in the Application Security (AppSec) space, and what do you see as the biggest challenge for companies striving to reach the next level of maturity?

Black Hat 2024 Snippet Video with Boaz Barzel, Evangelist & Director of Technical Enablement, OX Security

Snippet question: What is the most important thing to know about securing your machine identities?

Black Hat 2024 Snippet Video with Uzi Ailon, VP, DevSecOps Solutions, CyberArk

Snippet question: Given the increasing complexity of the software supply chain, what challenges do you believe cause the most pain when trying to mitigate risks and ensure the integrity and security of not only your application portfolio but also the underlying software factory?

Black Hat 2024 Snippet Video with Joe Nicastro, Field CTO, Legit Security

Securing Environments with Identity & Access Management

As organizations grow and evolve, the proliferation of disparate identity and access management (IAM) systems can create significant security vulnerabilities. Centralizing IAM is essential to mitigate these risks, but it presents challenges such as designing seamless interfaces and accommodating the dynamic needs of the business.

In this session, Vincent Amanyi (Founder, Boleam Inc) shares strategies to reduce fragmentation and centralize IAM systems using single sign-on (SSO) and role-based access control (RBAC). He will explore key internal and external considerations for developing comprehensive IAM policies that align with business evolution and industry changes.

Key Takeaways
- Optimize IAM Policies: Gain insights into the dynamic components of your organization's information access and learn how to support robust IAM policies.
- Foundation for Growth: Learn how to establish a strong foundation for managing identity risks in a rapidly evolving business landscape, especially during mergers and acquisitions.
- Risk Management: Understand how to identify gaps and effectively manage IAM sprawl risks to ensure a secure and compliant environment.

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