AgendaPalo Alto Networks Disrupting the Cybersecurity Status Quo

Getting cybersecurity listed as a priority 1 bullet point is hard enough, how do we begin to tackle the sub-bullets? A long list under 1.a. certainly isn't the answer. Find out what strategies attackers are using to better understand what we're up against and how to prioritize investments and tactics based upon risk.

Embracing modern technologies such as the Internet of Things, mobility, and cloud, requires disruptive approaches to protecting what you already have and anticipating the unknown. How can you continuously monitor for emerging threats as the size and complexity of your attack surface increases? Get some ideas for strengthening vulnerability and threat management across your endpoints. Learn how Splunk provides valuable insight across cloud, on-premises and hybrid services. With Splunk as a nerve center, teams can optimize people, process and technology.

Julie will talk through the CIO perspective she takes into account when considering constantly changing network landscapes and today's cybersecurity challenges that include a vast array of threat vectors. Security considerations include the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments, guest users and operational technologies (OT) with access to corporate networks that increase risk and attack surfaces far beyond managed device inventories with installed agents.

Also receive this Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper at the end of the ForeScout's session:

Fail To Plan, Plan To Fail: Understanding The Roles Of LoB Practitioners and SOCs In Securing IoT Environments

It is no longer acceptable for cyber to be a reactive game. Government and commercial organizations can't afford to wait for the next attack to determine what security measures need to be put into place. The key to hunting and mitigating unknown threats is establishing a proactive defense-knowing your network inside and out to actively prevent security vulnerabilities and risks.

In today's threat landscape all data is security relevant, thus a new approach to understanding networks is required. It is imperative for government and commercial organizations to employ continuous, shared operational and situational awareness to fully comprehend their network infrastructure as there are different views for each user level. Ingestion of cyber intelligence from any source is necessary to anticipate at risk systems on a network and proactively defend them. IT security teams must also leverage analytics to discover critical systems on a given network to help visualize and monitor system components separate from the rest of the network. These efforts will further facilitate indications and warnings of an attack based on external data sources and internal signaling between security devices across the enterprise.

Understanding data's value is imperative to address challenges and determine valuable solutions that are necessary to achieve a stable security infrastructure. During this session, attendees will learn:

· Different approaches to discovering opportunities for understanding your network infrastructure

· The pros and cons of conventional use case driven approaches to IT management

· Current attack trends and what type of data is needed to tackle these trends

· Operationalizing inherently biased viewpoints into situational awareness

As more and more Internet-bound traffic is SSL encrypted, it is vital that we leverage decryption to not only gain the visibility and controls necessary to safely enable applications for our users, but also to prevent both known and unknown threats. This sessions will review why decryption is necessary in today's modern network, and cover the most effective ways to implement the technology leveraging Palo Alto Networks best practices.

A threat focused discussion including mitigation approaches and Microsoft Security Product Interactions - highlighting Identity Protection, Containerization & Detonation, Credential Theft Mitigation, Strong Authentication, Behavior Analytics, Shadow IT Detection & Control, and Information Protection.

Attackers are moving in minutes and seconds and your security teams are responding in days, weeks, months or never. While incidents are inevitable, closing the gap from intrusion to remediation quickly is key to limiting damage post breach. However, you must have the right tools, the right people and a change of mindset regarding the defense of your networks. Learn from Jason Truppi, former FBI Cyber Agent and Director of Tanium’s Endpoint Detection and Response team, how Tanium has transformed their customer’s security teams operational mindset, shrunk their response times and brought the fight back to their organizations.

Learn how the new Palo Alto Networks application framework drives rapidly scalable security solutions, opens the door for innovative 3rd party developers and reduces costs for agile security. Current examples of tools leveraging the Application Framework include Global Protect Cloud services, Magnifier and the Logging Service.