Manually verifying policy compliance is time consuming, inaccurate, painful and expensive for security teams, leading to missed problems that often lead to security incidents. In this webinar, IANS Faculty member Dave Shackleford will provide strategies for policy automation and tools to do it with – specifically how to: ID which policies can be automated. Build strategies for automation that take advantage of cloud-based tools that are...

Ransomware and phishing attack methods continue to evolve, as do protection techniques. In this webinar, IANS Faculty member Chris Nickerson will provide updates on what has changed this past year, including: Case studies from the news: What victims did wrong and what they did right Tools and techniques to use if an initial attack is successful A look at how tactics differ for small teams vs. large teams How to account for ransomware attacks -...

In this webinar, IANS Faculty Member Aaron Turner will provide an in-depth look at the M365 configurations that the Dark Halo attackers used to gain access to sensitive US Treasury communications. Based upon dozens of IANS client engagements, he will provide a framework to prioritize the remediation of Azure AD and M365 service configuration settings to reduce the risk of similar attacks against IANS customers.

This regional in-person symposium has been updated to a virtual event and is intended for practitioners from the Seattle metro area. Interest in open source tools to use across security domains in a broader, more cost-effective manner has increased as companies struggle to maintain security programs amid an economic downturn. But before diving in, they must understand how these tools would work in their environment. This virtual symposium help...

This regional in-person symposium has been updated to a virtual event and is intended for practitioners from the Philadelphia metro area. The strongest security organizations move beyond merely reacting to incidents and fighting fires. They are self-aware, recognize their weaknesses and create roadmaps to move their programs from current to enhanced states. They establish a culture of continuous improvement and keep their eyes on the horizon a...

It was a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way many of us plan, deploy and manage security teams, policies and technology. In this webinar, IANS Faculty Adrian Sanabria and IANS Research Director Bill Brenner review the key lessons of 2020 and look ahead to what 2021 has in store for InfoSec.

his regional in-person symposium has been updated to a virtual event and is intended for practitioners from the New York metro area. After re-orienting the business to function in a pandemic, organizations now have an economic downturn on their hands and must find ways to keep security programs functioning as investments freeze and budgets shrink. This virtual symposium will offer steps to do that, including how to: Conduct an effective gap an...

This regional in-person symposium has been updated to a virtual event and is intended for practitioners from the Toronto metro area. With a ratio of 100/10/1 for Development, Operations, and Security, security now needs to concentrate on creating tools, processes and opportunities for dev and ops that result in more-secure products, instead of trying to do it all themselves like they did in days past. We must build security into each of "The T...

This regional in-person symposium has been updated to a virtual event and is intended for practitioners from the Washington, DC metro area. IANS has run multiple workshops on threat hunting, purple teaming and tool selection, but MITRE ATT&CK has opened up a new range of possibilities for how to approach these areas. This symposium will begin with an overview of how the framework works and then delve into several key areas. The agenda will...

This regional in-person symposium has been updated to a virtual event and is intended for practitioners from the Los Angeles metro area. After re-orienting the business to function in a pandemic, organizations now have an economic downturn on their hands and must find ways to keep security programs functioning as investments freeze and budgets shrink. This virtual symposium will offer steps to do that, including how to: Conduct an effective ga...