Studying the teachings from cybersecurity trash fires at TC Disrupt 2023
We’ve all seen headlines about main hacks and knowledge breaches of main firms — it could possibly really feel like no one’s protected. Safety is a continuing studying curve, and what we be taught when issues go fallacious might help defend in opposition to comparable threats and would-be incidents sooner or later.
That’s why we’re excited to welcome three of the sharpest safety specialists — Lesley Carhart, director of incident response, Dragos; Sherrod DeGrippo, director of menace intelligence technique, Microsoft; and Rachel Tobac, pleasant hacker and CEO, SocialProof Safety — to the Safety Stage on September 21 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.
In a session known as “What We Can Study from Cybersecurity Trash Fires,” our panel will speak in regards to the classes we will take from among the cybersecurity horror tales — or “trash fires” — they’ve seen of their careers.
On this judgment-free house, we’ll talk about how safety incidents will be prevented by studying and heeding the teachings from yesteryear. You’ll hear hand-picked examples of cybersecurity trash fires from the highest professionals of their fields, and also you’ll take away actionable recommendation and relatable steerage on each what — and what not — to do.
Come to learn to make the world much less hackable, and go away with the instruments and data to tackle the challenges as the subsequent era of safety leaders.
Study extra about our audio system — and their {qualifications} for tackling this difficult matter — under.
Lesley Carhart: Dragos, director of incident response for North America
Lesley Carhart leads response to, and proactively hunts for, threats in clients’ industrial management system (ICS) environments. After 4 years as a principal incident responder at Dragos, Lesley now manages a workforce of incident response and digital forensics professionals throughout North America. Carhart investigates commodity, focused and insider menace instances in industrial networks. Carhart can be an authorized teacher and curriculum developer for Dragos’ incident-response and threat-hunting programs.
Previous to becoming a member of Dragos, Carhart was the incident response workforce lead at Motorola Options. Lesley is honored to be retired from the U.S. Air Power Reserves and to have obtained recognition resembling DEF CON Hacker of the 12 months, SANS Distinction Maker, and Energy Participant from SC Journal.
Carhart additionally organizes résumé and interview clinics at a number of cybersecurity conferences, and so they lecture, weblog and tweet prolifically about cybersecurity. When not working, Carhart enjoys being a youth martial arts teacher.
Sherrod DeGrippo: Microsoft, director of menace intelligence technique
Sherrod DeGrippo was chosen as Cybersecurity Girl of the 12 months in 2022 and Cybersecurity PR Spokesperson of the yr for 2021. Previous to becoming a member of Microsoft, she was VP of menace analysis and detection at Proofpoint, the place she led a world workforce of menace researchers, malware reverse engineers and menace intelligence analysts.
DeGrippo’s profession in cybersecurity spans 19 years with prior roles that embrace main the safety enterprise providers workforce at Nexum, senior options engineer for Symantec, senior safety guide for Secureworks and senior community safety analyst for the Nationwide Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA).
A regularly cited menace intelligence skilled, DeGrippo’s media expertise consists of televised appearances on BBC Information and commentary within the Wall Road Journal, CNN, The New York Instances and extra. She is a widely known public speaker having offered at Black Hat, RSA Convention, Rocky Mountain Data Safety Convention (RMISC), Sleuthcon and others. In her private time, she co-hosts the cultural way of life podcast Bit Obscene and spends time along with her rescue canine, Boris Karloff.
Rachel Tobac: SocialProof Safety, pleasant hacker and CEO
Rachel Tobac helps folks and corporations maintain their knowledge protected by coaching and pen testing them on social engineering dangers. She was additionally second-place winner of Def Con’s wild spectator sport, the Social Engineering Seize the Flag contest, three years in a row.
Tobac has shared her real-life social engineering tales with NPR, Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, The New York Instances, CNN, NBC Nightly Information with Lester Holt and plenty of extra. In her remaining spare time, she sits on the CISA Technical Advisory Committee and is the chair of the board for the nonprofit Girls in Safety and Privateness (WISP), the place she works to advance ladies to steer within the fields.
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