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This is a 2 hour hands-on workshop. As with any enterprise environment, we can (and should) focus on hardening our defenses to keep the adversaries out, but these defenses may some day be evaded via a variety of methods. Cloud is no different. In this workshop, which is a follow-on from the talk “Building Better Cloud Detections... By Hacking? (AWS Edition)“, we will work through the process of creating a detection that we can use...

FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce. Join us as we talk with a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks. Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build Cyber Resilient organizatio...

Budget leaders serving state and local governments and school districts face more demands than ever. In addition to creating efficiencies in performance and ensuring financial compliance, budget leaders are tasked with: Providing increased levels of transparency Meeting non-financial goals around priorities like equity Legacy budgeting approaches fall short of helping organizations meet these new demands. To meet this moment, budget leaders ar...

The pace of IT change has become difficult to keep up with for SOCs. The SOC team should use the SOAR platform to gain insight on what the SOC does and perform it with greater speed, precision, and consistency. The challenge is SOAR tools are frequently bought to avoid the one thing that most organizations don't seem to be able to do on their own: figuring out the sequence of actions that need to be automated and bringing together the mass of...

Open and timely communication between government and constituents is critical to community success. Whether for planning budgets, measuring program impact or enhancing emergency response, a dedicated public participation platform is the best way to identify and address community needs. Community engagement software can help agencies create a central database to personalize communications for hard-to-reach residents. And purpose-built reporting...

Black Hat Trainings will be held virtually in the Eastern Time Zone, March 13 - 16. Develop in-demand cybersecurity skills in technical Trainings taught by expert instructors from around the world. From infrastructure hacking to incident response, there's a course for individuals of all experience levels. Expand your security talent in just 4 days. Black Hat Trainings span a range of technical topics, offering opportunities for beginner to adv...

As with any enterprise environment, we can (and should) focus on hardening our defenses to keep the adversaries out, but these defenses may some day be evaded via a variety of methods. Cloud is no different. We will discuss the process of creating a detection that we can use as defenders to spot an adversary performing attack techniques against our AWS environments. The overall process and takeaways will be: Establish proper logging to detect...

Performing audits on organizations of any size is no easy task. Successful audits require communication amongst various functions and auditors; all of whom may be operating on different timetables, with different requirements and defined areas of responsibility. Each moment wasted on trying to “gather” audit information is time spent not performing the audit. In this SANS First Look, we examined Drata’s Audit Hub, a part of t...

ChatGPT was launched by OpenAI in November 2022. Since then, it has been the subject of many discussions. ChatGPT itself is one application that was built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 models. We can programmatically interact with these models via OpenAI API. In this talk, we will go beyond ChatGPT and discuss OpenAI API, fine-tuning our own models for specific tasks, and building security applications on top of them. We will be building a sa...