ISSA-LA Security Summit 2024

Building Resilient Teams to Fill The Skills Gaps

Cultivating a robust cybersecurity workforce requires a multifaceted approach with a diverse set of skills. Organizations can invest in hiring candidates from various verticals and markets to enhance their security programs.

Additionally, bringing in fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration can bridge skills gaps and ensure a resilient cybersecurity team.

• How can we create a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing within our cybersecurity team?
• What training and certification programs would be most beneficial in addressing specific skills gaps within our team?
• Are there mentorship opportunities or collaborative initiatives that can help empower existing talent and enhance our overall cybersecurity workforce?

A critical analysis of key events and trends that have led to the current state, exploring how commercialization, mass surveillance and the rise of big data analytics have contributed to the erosion of digital privacy & security.

The cybersecurity landscape is filled with illusions.

Traditional defenses focus on building ever-higher walls, but attackers are constantly innovating ways to bypass them. This talk explores the concept of the "Cybersecurity Mirage," where seemingly robust defenses offer a false sense of security; moreover, companies continue to spend billions of dollars chasing something that is not attainable. So many worry about the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), but they need to start with the Basic Persistent Threat. We need a paradigm shift and accept that the way we have been doing security is flawed and broken and to continue this way is the true definition of insanity.

Join me as I show empirical evidence of simple ways to confuse and frustrate attackers once they have broken through the existing flawed security solutions and embark on the path of Proactive Resilience. We will accomplish this with simple and easy to do network tricks that for some reason have been forgotten! It is time to remember them again!

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