Our theme of Using Data to Defend is more critical than ever, given the security challenges of moving customers and vendors online and supporting a remote workforce. The online conference will be held on January 12-15, 2021. FloCon 2021 focuses on using “big data” to solve difficult security problems. Its practical, practitioner-oriented sessions feature online training, presentations, and keynote speakers from the security and dat...

This webcast illustrated where machine learning applications can be attacked, the means for carrying out the attack and some mitigations that can be employed. The elements in building and deploying a machine learning application are reviewed, considering both data and processes. The impact of attacks on each element is considered in turn. Special attention is given to transfer learning, a popular way to construct quickly a machine learning app...

Bringing computation and data storage closer to the edge, such as disaster and tactical environments, has challenging quality attribute requirements. These include improving response time, saving bandwidth, and implementing security in resource-constrained nodes. In this webcast we review characteristics of edge environments with a focus on architectural qualities. The characteristics and quality attribute concerns that we present are generali...

In this webcast, as a part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, our experts will provide an overview of the concept of cyber hygiene, which bears an analogy to the concept of hygiene in the medical profession. Like the practice of washing hands to prevent infections, cyber hygiene addresses simple sets of actions that users can take to help reduce cybersecurity risks. Matt Butkovic, Randy Trzeciak, and Matt Trevors will discuss what some...

Moving applications and data to the cloud has many benefits, including lower costs, accelerated computing speed, and the rapid provisioning of systems. The federal government is working to leverage the “anywhere, anytime” benefits of the cloud and has made cloud-adoption a central tenet of its IT modernization strategy. But choosing cloud services without becoming fully informed of the risks can also expose you to myriad commercial...