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SANS and Carbon Black Announce the Speaker Line-Up for the 2018 SANS Threat Hunting & Incident Response SummitBETHESDA, Md., June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, and Carbon Black® (Nasdaq: CBLK), a leader in next-generation endpoint security, today announced the speaker line-up for the 2018 Threat Hunting & Incident Response Summit to be held in New Orleans, September 6-7. Now in its third year, the Summit brings together prominent security practitioners for two days of in-depth presentations on techniques that can be used to successfully identify, contain, and eliminate adversaries targeting an organization's networks. "The information security and forensic community now understands that solely relying on reactive incident response processes is not a strategy that improves the security of our network environments," explained Phil Hagen, Summit Co-Chair and a SANS Senior Instructor. "The inclusion of threat hunting practices has significantly improved our industry's response time by proactively seeking evidence of previously undetected incidents or full-scale breaches." This year's Summit features an array of top threat hunting practitioners who will share the latest tools, techniques, and procedures they use in their environments on a daily basis to improve their organizations' security posture. Summit speakers include:
The Threat Hunting & Incident Response Summit was created by SANS in collaboration with Carbon Black to specifically address gaps in the security landscape, and Hagen has seen the progress in closing those gaps. "Using the basic definition of threat hunting – leveraging new threat intelligence against existig data stores of evidence -- we see benefits in terms of decreased attacker dwell time, faster and more decisive identification of human- or machine-originated anomalies, and overall improved network hygiene," he said. Rob Lee, SANS DFIR Curriculum Lead and Summit Co-Chair added, "This summit is unique in that it brings together seasoned hunters and new practitioners to share ideas, techniques, and capabilities that are being discovered. Hunting is still so new that one of the few places to learn about what works are through events like these. No one has threat hunting completely figured out yet – summits like these are key to helping spread the word on things both new practitioners and skilled hunters can use in their operations when they get back home." Immediately following the Summit, attendees will have the opportunity to enhance their training experience by taking one of seven hands-on threat hunting and incident response courses. Courses offered include FOR508: Advanced Digital Forensics, Incident Response and Threat Hunting, FOR572: Advanced Network Forensics: Threat Hunting, Analysis, and Incident Response, FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence, and more. To register for the SANS Threat Hunting & Incident Response Summit & Training or to obtain additional information about it, including a complete list of speakers and courses, please visit: www.sans.org/u/EuE About SANS Institute About Carbon Black 2018 © Carbon Black and Predictive Security Cloud are registered trademarks or trademarks of Carbon Black, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sans-and-carbon-black-announce-the-speaker-line-up-for-the-2018-sans-threat-hunting--incident-response-summit-300664830.html SOURCE SANS Institute |