There is a reason more than half of today’s ransomware victims end up paying the ransom. Cyber-criminals have become thoughtful; taking time to maximize your organization’s potential damage and their payoff. After achieving root access, the bad guys explore your network reading email, finding data troves and once they know you, they craft a plan to cause the most panic, pain, and operational disruption. Ransomware has gone nuclear....

Credential theft and lateral movement are now regular, everyday tricks of the cyber attacker trade. So it’s imperative that every business secure the foundations of its enterprise access control system: Active Directory. And yet, for many organizations, Active Directory management and security is a major challenge, and they don’t know where to begin. In this webinar, experts will explain the latest AD-related threats and help you g...

Now is not the time to let technical issues add more disruptions to your operations. Whether you maintain a high-volume, e-commerce storefront or an application your customers rely on, performance testing can help organizations spot and mitigate potential trouble spots. There are many options available and it is easy to get lost searching for the right solution. In this InformationWeek webinar, experts will help enterprise teams understand wha...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. Now in its 23rd year, Black Hat USA is the world's leading information security event, providing attendees with the very latest security research, development and trends. Black Hat USA 2020 will be entirely virtual this year, held over the same dates, August 1-6. Please visit our event website for complete pricing details on every...

For most enterprises, the increasing use of the Internet has created new business opportunities, greater efficiencies, and a green field for innovation. But growing use of the Internet is also increasing the risk of cyber attack. In recent years, online attackers have launched a wide range of Internet-borne attacks, ranging from DDoS to DNS-based exploits to infiltration of commercial websites. And with the world relying more heavily on Web-ba...

There is one nightmare day that all IT and cybersecurity professionals dread: the discovery of a critical data breach. It’s potentially one of the most impactful – yet least predictable -- days that your business will face. And, to a large extent, that impact will be determined by the decisions you make next. For the most experienced and effective cybersecurity teams, though, that “really bad day” doesn’t come as...

No matter what your industry or what your organization’s size, there is a growing need to monitor your systems for potential threats – and have the capacity to respond quickly in the event of a compromise. To build out this capacity, many enterprises are building or expanding their security operations centers (SOCs) to improve their ability to detect and respond to cyber threats. In this webinar, experts offer insight and recommend...

More and more, enterprises are discovering that the best way to test and defend their organization is to view their IT environment from the perspective of an attacker. But how do you predict an attacker's motives and simulate their methods, and how do you know that you aren’t overlooking key vulnerabilities? In this Dark Reading webinar, experts discuss methods for testing your security’s mettle by thinking like your adversary.

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Just as Dorothy and her companions went in search of the Wizard of Oz for a quick fix to their problems, so too are businesses today looking to Artificial Intelligence to provide innovative solutions to their greatest challenges. But is AI and machine learning really all it’s made out to be? And what impact will regulation have on the d...

Join subject matter experts from across the DOD to discuss the latest developments in modernizing endpoint security! System administrators, analysts, program managers and experts from across the DOD user community will come together to discuss new capabilities planned, projected milestones, and the status and outcomes from rapid innovation fund projects and other endpoint security initiatives being evaluated by the military services. It will...