Jim will provide an in-depth background of the changing cyber threat landscape, with specific focus on recent incidents including the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the massive data breach at Anthem Healthcare, and the compromise at the US Office of Personnel Management of nearly every US government employees’ personal information. Jim will share his unique perspective on the asymmetric nature of the cyber threat and the strategic implications for Canada, USA, and Europe moving forward. Jim will delve into what it takes to discover cyber threats in spite of a cyber security paradigm that has a stunning track record of failure. He will outline how an intelligence driven approach to discovery makes it possible to identify unknown/unknowns in a context that makes them relevant. Jim will offer a strategy to prioritize resources devoted to cyber intelligence efforts and turn it into action to hunt down threats. Finally, he will talk about the tremendous human resource available to operationalize these concepts.
Jim Penrose is the EVP for Cyber Intelligence at Darktrace where he leads the firm¹s cyber operations team. A distinguished speaker, Jim has presented at the 2014 Cybersecurity Summit, the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, and the Suits and Spooks London 2014 meeting. Jim joins Darktrace following a distinguished 17 year career at NSA where he achieved the rank of Defense Intelligence Senior Level and was responsible for a variety of roles encompassing cyber threat analysis and counterterrorism. Most recently, as Chief of the Operational Discovery Center, Jim innovated new signal intelligence capabilities to discover previously unknown threats. Jim has been at the forefront of cyber operations throughout his career and was nominated for a Presidential Rank award in 2013 and 2014.