Your organization is under a state of constant and sustained attack, and every employee represents a potential point of weakness in your security strategy. Innovation in endpoint security is a critical need. New approaches to insulate the employee against these attacks are required. Today's most successful and common attack vector is to spear-phish your employees with email containing links to malicious sites and weaponized attachments. The adversary is getting onto your networks by tricking your employees into becoming accomplices to network breach every time they click on a link in a spear-phish or open its attachments.
The techniques used by your adversaries include:
- Spear-phishing emails that deliver the employee to malicious websites that run drive-by download exploits or include weaponized document attachments
- Hijacking legitimate trusted sites to push malware to unsuspecting users
- Poisoning search results behind trending news items on popular engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing
- Pushing malware through popular social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
This presentation will focus on new approaches, without the need of
signatures or lists, to fight against Zero Day Attacks.
Stephen Ward brings to Invincea more than 16 years of progressive expertise in the Networking, Managed Security Services, Outsourcing, Compliance and Information Security fields. In his role as Vice President for Invincea he is responsible for all aspects of the company’s go-to-market strategy - including work with the product development, security research, strategic alliances, marketing and sales organizations. Prior to joining Invincea, Stephen held a number of critical roles across the Networking, Compliance, Managed Security Services, Information Security, IT Services and IT Outsourcing industries. His most recent role prior to Invincea was with NetWitness (acquired by EMC/RSA), and prior to that he held roles as a Global Executive for Satyam Computer Services, and as a Director for SAVVIS (acquired by CenturyLink). Stephen joined Invincea in October, 2010. He has authored numerous articles for, and has served as a spokesperson for, each of these firms. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Management from George Mason University.
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