With the time to breach detection remaining at 100-200 days and the 100’s of millions of dollars that will be lost to ransomware this year, it is safe to say that modern, relentless attackers have revealed a fundamental flaw in the traditional layered defense model. Any individual layer, when it receives updated security intelligence, does not look backward at previously analyzed traffic, files or events. It merely looks forward, more accurately inspecting new events.
In this interactive discussion we will review time to detection data from 2014 to today and examine the role massive data harvesting plays in fixing the traditional model including:
Sean Earhard heads Cisco’s Advanced Threat Solutions team for Canada, working with organizations to design and build strategies to secure their networks and users from today’s Advanced Threats. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Earhard worked with large accounts for Symantec in Toronto and Sophos in Chicago—adding to his wealth of experience from working in thirty-six countries over the past two decades. He has been a speaker at many industry events including SecTor, InfraGard, ISC2 and Cisco’s national ‘Connect’ seminar series.