Topic: Finding and Stopping the Invisible Threats
Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Time: 2 p.m. EST/11 a.m. PST





Co-hosted with SC Magazine
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Topic Description:

Do you ever wonder why your current security infrastructure cannot help you detect some of the more difficult and complex network security problems?

A top 10 bank needed to find a way to deal with a number of very tough but related network threat areas. For example, the bank needed to know if organized crime rings and malicious insiders were using policy evasion technologies such as rogue encryption, TOR, and other tunneling technologies to establish invisible and convert connections to external dynamic DNS ranges or servers. And were customers being redirected to rogue Websites masquerading as bank Websites? Or were critical/sensitive artifacts from within its organization, such as email addresses, bank routing numbers, credit card numbers, and employee ID numbers are being used outside the organization for inappropriate purposes, and how they are being used – potentially by organized crime.

Meanwhile, a large government agency was highly concerned about the very subtle, but constant flow of non-standard network traffic “beaconing” over standard ports -- and that the contents of this traffic may contain command and control data for compromised internal I/T assets or worse, exfiltrated organizational data of great value to both the government agency and the foreign operatives.

These use cases are real, and are just two examples of the kinds of threats organizations are dealing with today that can lead to losses of millions of dollars, personal identities, years of research, and priceless classified records. This SC Magazine / NetWitness Webcast will review what’s critically at stake for you in each of these cases, and how these two organizations solved these tough network security problems by implementing NetWitness’ extensible NextGen monitoring infrastructure and highly customizable analytic and alerting applications.

Meet our speaker:

Eddie Schwartz | Chief Security Officer | NetWitness Corporation

As Chief Security Officer for NetWitness, Eddie Schwartz is responsible for the alignment of the NetWitness product strategy with the evolving operational threat management needs of government and commercial organizations. Prior to joining NetWitness, Mr. Schwartz served as CTO of ManTech Security Technologies Corp, Senior Vice President of Operations of Guardent Inc, (acquired by Verisign), and EVP of Operations for Predictive Systems (acquired by INS). Mr. Schwartz also worked as Chief Information Security Officer at Nationwide Insurance, as a Senior Computer Scientist for CSC, and a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State.