The Evolving Threat Landscape and how to deal with it.

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Presented at DataConnectorsCyberSecurity 2019 by

Tj Iacobone

As security companies evolve to provide better and more effective protection, the adversaries also evolve, in a repetitive cycle of cat and mouse. These evolved cybercriminals are an amalgamation of the skilled targeted attacker and the more pedestrian pre-packaged malware toolkit user. They will use manual hacking techniques not destruction and sabotage but to maintain and increase their income streams. One of the most encouraging trends we see is how security has begun to shift the burden to attackers, forcing them to change their operations. Come listen to how Sophos is driving this change with a number of important, advanced protection techniques, including generalized exploit protections, which can arrest virtually infinite variations of memory and control flow abuses; deep learning, which provides the best proactive prediction of malware at scales never before achieved; and behavioral detections that provide runtime defenses against such would-be epidemics as ransomware. Speaker’s Bio: Anthony Iacobone better known as TJ Iacobone or that guy in the hat, given his affinity and propensity for wearing ballcaps when not presenting, has been with Sophos for nearly 2 decades. Over that span he has seen and combated a multitude of threats from Sircam and Nimda to the current deluge of ransomware like Wanna Cry and Sam Sam. Originally from Massachusetts he has lived in the Raleigh area for 5 years and covers the Carolinas for Sophos. When not busy selling and presenting TJ has 3 wonderful kids and an amazing wife that get the rest of his time away from work.