To maintain warfighting overmatch, coordinate deployed forces, and enable new warfighting capabilities, the DoD is actively looking to new programs such as the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy to ensure warfighters have maximum situational awareness. This drives the development of networks linking the cloud, command posts, combat platforms, and dismounted warfighter — including the addition of vast numbers of sensors...

The Department of Defense innovation ecosystem serves as an incubator for new technology and processes. Discover how these agencies are modeling new best practices that scale robust collaboration within the services and across the defense industrial base. Understand what capabilities are needed to secure and drive mission success today. How can organizations harness true collaboration via Bluescape’s secure digital whiteboard (IL4 ATO/DI...

Following in the footsteps of a cyber-criminal and uncovering their digital footprint. This is a journey inside the mind of an ethical hacker’s response to a ransomware incident that brought a business to a full stop, and discovering the evidence left behind to uncover their attack path and the techniques used. Malicious attackers look for the cheapest, fastest, stealthiest way to achieve their goals. Windows endpoints provide many oppor...

With the recent cybersecurity threats and attacks, including breached content, the shutdown and lock outs of systems and the recurrence of ransomware, the reality of the need for zero-trust and cybersecure systems is evident. The White House responded with a new Cybersecurity Executive Order that lays out and defines stringent mandates to update policies and procedures across government entities for adopting cybersecurity best practices. These...

Threat actors continue to develop better, more advanced tactics to encrypt your organization’s data for ransom, destroying backups along the way to ensure their payday. There are many tools, capabilities and techniques to build resilience to counter these threats, but there are few standards to help. How do you know what to do and whether it will actually protect you? Please join Jim Clancy—SVP, Global Data Protection Sales and Jim...

CMMC is fraught with uncertainties in today’s environment, but one thing is still sure: CMMC preparations take a lot longer than defense suppliers think. Although timelines have been adjusted somewhat due to the COVID-19 pandemic, giving defense contractors a little more time to become CMMC compliant, recent DOD updates regarding CMMC indicate that the first pilot contract RFPs including CMMC requirements are expected in Q1FY21. For thos...

U.S. Army and Marine Corps tactical networking and command post programs widely acknowledge the critical need to improve mobility. The current state of the art for field command posts requires hours of setup, including thousands of feet of copper wiring, which delays network availability and results in a dangerous potential gap in situational awareness for commanders. A new class of deployable small wireless network systems is bringing the ben...

The IT Landscape has changed and battles for network and information dominance are being played out in a cyberspace. We must be able to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from new threats quickly and accurately to ensure our networks and data continue to provide access and value. In this session, we will discuss emerging trends in automated security incident response and how security automation can be used to gather information, ma...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. NOW VIRTUAL! The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rolls out later this year, which will affect both homeland security and the defense industrial base. The certification schema challenges industry with many issues, both known and unknown. This symposium unpacks the model to aid industry in understanding how their co...

A true least-privilege security model requires users, processes, applications, and systems to have just enough rights and access—and for no longer than required—to perform a necessary action or task. While organizations are increasingly effective at applying the “just enough” piece using privileged access management (PAM) solutions, they have largely neglected the time-limited and persistent risk part of the equation....