Bringing together cybersecurity professionals from around the globe, VMware Carbon Black Connect is an annual two-day event about the future of endpoint security and the evolving threat landscape. This year the event was held in a virtual format, which allowed a larger audience than ever before to join our virtual stage and engage directly with threat researchers, developers, and product experts.
The event featured hands-on workshops, product certifications, a developer event and 50 speaking sessions. These sessions included security executives from Zoom, Netflix DVD, Circle K, Comcast, the U.S. Secret Service and more. This content is now on-demand through November 2020. Take a look at the highlights from some of our most popular sessions during the virtual conference.
Cybersecurity Insights: Security as a Team Sport
In this session, VMware COO Sanjay Poonen was joined by our special guest Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, Suzanne Hall, Global CISO & VP of Technology Infrastructure at Circle K, and Chris Sherman, Senior Analyst at Forrester. These industry experts got together – virtually – to discuss how Security and IT can better protect their organizations from cyberattacks when working through a common strategy. To put into perspective how much the need for cybersecurity is increasing in the last few months, since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a 148% increase in ransomware attacks and 52% of those attacks targeted the financial sector. Hackers are looking for every possible way to take advantage of people working from home. So how can we fix the broken security model? Watch the recap here.
Strategies for Overcoming the Security Talent Shortage
Talent in the security world is a hot commodity – and once you have these talent workers, how do you retain them? Suzanne Hall, Global CISO & VP of Technology Infrastructure at Circle K, Jimmy Sanders, Head of Information Security at Netflix DVD, and Rick McElroy, Security Strategist at VMware Carbon Black discussed the different strategies on how you can overcome this talent shortage. With the amount of challenges that security poses you with, candidates need to comfortable of expanding their comfort zone and need to be adaptable, but what other traits do the best candidates make? Do you think you fit the ideal security-employee model? Check out their insight here.
The Future of Cybersecurity: A Friendly Hacker’s Perspective
It’s 2020 and Cybersecurity is no longer about protecting secrets. It’s about our way of life – a modern world that relies on digital technology, everywhere – from clouds to smartphones, from sensors to webcams, to stock markets and so much more. Cyber criminals are constantly changing the way they attack and your organization constantly needs to be thinking about what’s next. In this talk, Keren discusses emerging threats and new attack techniques that organizations have not prepared for yet and how we can continue to evolve and innovate our paradigms about trust, security, and digital access. Discover more on Keren’s “friendly hacker perspective” here.
Stay tuned for our next virtual event, VMworld, on September 29th- October 1st. Register here to create your own virtual conference agenda!
