This keynote is designed to address the seemingly overwhelming collection of security concerns with which today’s leaders contend:

• Do you struggle with designing and implementing a security program that effectively achieves the goals outlined in your security mission?
• Are you interested in better understanding how hackers think, how they operate, and how to defend accordingly?
• Do you struggle to know where to invest resources in order to best deliver security to your organization?
• Are you concerned about your organization suffering a security incident under your watch?
• Are you seeking more certainty that by investing resources into a given security approach, that investment will deliver the outcomes you seek?
• Do you have the appetite and capacity for change?

If any of this describes you, this is the keynote for you! An engaging blend of research-based issue analysis combined with storytelling, this keynote seeks to empower today’s security leaders, teaching attendees how to:

• Implement a 3-phase action plan, based on years of practical experience in security research and security consulting, designed to help equip leaders to deal with modern attackers.
• Define and implement a threat model.
• Differentiate between assessment methods.
• Understand level of attacker intensity.
• Challenge conventional wisdom