Category: Cyber Security

Cyber Security & Cloud Congress North America 2024 is set to open its doors on June 5-6, marking a pivotal moment for cybersecurity and cloud computing professionals worldwide. Hosted in the vibrant tech hub of Santa Clara, California, this prestigious event promises an unparalleled gathering of industry professionals, thought leaders, and innovators.

 

Renowned speakers from diverse backgrounds will grace the stage, including:

  • Grant Dasher, Architecture Branch Chief, CSD – CISA – Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

  • Sharan Ram, Executive Director – Cybersecurity – JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  • Alissa “Dr Jay” Abdullah, Deputy Chief Security Officer – Mastercard

  • Benjamin Benhan, Global Privacy Attorney – eBay

  • Hardik Mehta, Head of Cyber Risk Management – UBER

  • Pranusha Soma, Senior Security Engineer – Lark Health

  • Animesh Singh, Executive Director, AI and Machine Learning Platform – LinkedIn

  • Shams Zawoad, PhD, CISSP, Director, Threat Analytics & Research – Visa

More distinguished speakers can be found on the Cyber Security & Cloud Congress Speakers website here: https://www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com/northamerica/speakers/.

 

This year’s conference will explore its themes over the span of two days, dedicated to the realms of cybersecurity and cloud computing. Crafted to captivate audiences from both industries, the attendees include cybersecurity experts, CISOs, CTOs, CIOs, cloud specialists, cloud architects, cloud migration engineers, and many more.

The meticulously curated agenda aims to disseminate the latest insights and discourse on prevailing cybersecurity and cloud computing issues across the following days:

 

Cyber Security Itinerary:

Cloud Computing Itinerary:

 

Hosted by TechEx, a prominent entity within the conference and exhibition domain, this event is slated to convene over 7,000 attendees from diverse industry sectors. From government to automotive, healthcare to retail, and beyond, participants will explore the entire spectrum of future cyber challenges and solutions – from AI-driven threat detection to secure-by-design principles.

Stephen Downing, TechEx’s Head of Delegates & Group Operations Manager, commented, “TechEx prides itself on its unique ability to foster informed debate and discussion among experts from the private sector, enterprises of all sizes, and governmental bodies. We’re thrilled to bring together distinguished colleagues and experts from across the globe to Santa Clara, a city renowned for its innovation, to deliberate on enhancing our collective resilience.”

During the Cyber Security & Cloud Congress, participants will have the opportunity to engage with industry leaders exhibiting at this year’s expo, including such companies as IBM, Google Cloud, Nettitude, NinjaOne, Rapid7, Otterize, Security Compass, KeepIt, and many more under one roof at TechEx. The full exhibitors list can be found here: https://www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com/northamerica/exhibition/. 

Moreover, ample networking opportunities await, providing attendees with a chance to forge meaningful connections with industry peers, speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors. The evening after Day 1 of the event will feature a networking event at the Terra Courtyard at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. This exclusive gathering offers Gold and Ultimate pass holders, Speakers, Sponsors, Exhibitors, and Press Representatives the chance to connect with prominent industry figures. More information here: https://www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com/northamerica/networking-party/.

For detailed information on the event’s program, exhibitors, speakers, and sponsors, visit the Cyber Security & Cloud Congress page here: https://www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com/northamerica/. 

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By Dan Conrad, AD Security and Management Team Lead at One Identity

Authentication is one of the hottest topics in cybersecurity right now. As biometrics, MFA, and a range of other authentication methods continue to threaten the password’s supremacy, we thought it was worth finding out what industry professionals thought about it all.

So that’s what we did. At InfoSecurity Europe 2022, One Identity surveyed more than 100 security and IT professionals to get a picture of how businesses and their employees approach passwords and authentication.

When asked what they consider the biggest security threat to their business and 56 percent of respondents said they believed it to be users sharing passwords for admin tasks. If that isn’t an argument for passwordless authentication, we’re not sure what is. This was followed by 25 percent of respondents believing that the biggest security threat was users clicking on malicious links or opening rogue attachments. Collectively, this means that 80 percent of respondents believe that human error poses the largest threat to an organization’s security.

Interestingly, while the majority (62 percent) viewed educating staff as the most important factor in preventing cyber-attacks, a rapidly growing segment (30 percent) stated that adopting a zero-trust model was more important.

Moving on to multifactor authentication, we are met with some heartening statistics. 99 percent of respondents told us that their company had adopted MFA for remote access and 97 percent said that it was mandated. This confirms what we already knew – that the password as a standalone authentication method is obsolete.

When looking into users’ connections to passwords, we see some interesting results. While just over a quarter of respondents had an emotional connection to a password (28 percent), the majority said they had a favorite password (84 percent). We can infer from this that while most people don’t reuse passwords for sentimental reasons, they likely do for practical reasons. It is concerning that IT and security professionals, people who are more aware than anyone of the dangers of reusing passwords, persist in this bad habit.

This is yet another mark against the use of traditional passwords – if those in the know aren’t following best practices, how can we expect the layman to? The reality is modern users have so many accounts that it is no longer practical to create and remember a new password for everyone they set up. We’ll chalk this one up as another point in support of modern authentication methods, which eliminate these problems.

While it’s clear that users are reusing passwords, it turns out that most respondents are at least adding complexity to their passwords depending on a system’s importance (96 percent). Perhaps unsurprisingly, 76 percent saw banking or financial services as requiring a top tier password, but only 7 percent thought that work emails were deserving of the same protection. This may be an understandable perspective but doesn’t bode well for organizations that routinely share sensitive information through email.

Finally, we make it to how IT and security professionals are storing their passwords. Here, at least, we get some more heartening statistics:

  • 65 percent of respondents said they used passwords managers, which is generally regarded as the safest and most convenient way to keep passwords
  • 23 percent said they wrote their login details down somewhere, which, while not ideal, is safer than using one password across multiple accounts

We did, apparently, come across some cyber-savants claiming they could remember all their login details, but if anything, this suggests that they are reusing passwords for an alarming number of accounts.

The key takeaway here is that the password is on the way out. These results serve as further proof that traditional passwords by themselves are no longer fit for purpose – even leaders in the IT security space fail to follow best practices simply because it isn’t convenient. We’ve seen that businesses are implementing and mandating alternative authentication methods en masse, and it won’t be long before this trend trickles down to the rest of society.

 

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