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Attacks Trend & Techniques

What are the current Trends and Techniques used by hackers ?

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Oh no, we’ve been hacked, now what? Developing an incident response process

Sooner or later, the unimaginable becomes the inevitable: your information security will get breached and your systems will get attacked. It might be a mild brief denial of service or a full-on concerted effort to wipe you off the Internet, but it will happen. There’s only one real question you need to answer: are you ready? Do you have the skills, techniques, tools, and organization to respond and recover? Fact is, most of us fail to plan for such a fateful day—leading to panic, indecision, and mistakes. Our jobs as defenders of information fall into three overarching categories of protection, detection, reaction. Mobilizing an organized team with a well-designed and tested reaction plan is the only effective way to recover from the attack and quickly return to business as usual. Steve Riley will show you how to build such a team and how to prepare it for success.

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It’s 11:00 PM, do you know where your data is?

Long gone are the days when you knew your data was safe because it resided only in your data center. The explosive proliferation of laptops, notebooks, handheld computers, smartphones, removable drives, and Internet file storage demands that we rethink how we protect information. Because it's the information the bad guys are after, and because the information flows so freely from device to device, our obligation is to protect the information. People want to work wherever they can find a computer and an Internet connection. How can you make this work? Steve Riley will consider strategies and explore technologies to help you solve a number of thorny problems: how to classify mobile data, how to keep track of where it is, and how to control its movement.

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The fortified data center in your future: Build it now and they will come

Relax for a moment. Let your mind wander to thoughts of your corporate network—with its myriad authentication schemes, its haphazard collection of client computers in various states of (non)conformance, its proliferation of access methods, its data centers with too many ways in and out. Feel like you want to just burn it all down and start over? Well, perhaps you should—and when you do, you can implement something that’s simpler, more secure, well managed, and less expensive. Over the years, Steve Riley has hinted at this idea, advocating the demise of the traditional corporate network, with its no longer useful distinction between “inside” and “outside.” Instead, organizations should move toward using the Internet as their infrastructure, where all clients and a physically and electronically fortified data center live “live on the ‘net.” The question, then, is how to build this data center? Effective security and management are absolutely essential to realize this vision. Steve will show how combining the Microsoft ForeFront family of security products with the System Center family of management solutions provides the necessary foundation for building your data center of the future—today. Don’t delay, because your business competitors are already doing it

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