Tech Talk Series: The Perimeter has been Shattered: Cybersecurity in the Age of Mobility, by Georgia Weidman of Shevirah Inc.
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Tech Talk Series: The Perimeter has been Shattered: Cybersecurity in the Age of Mobility, by Georgia Weidman of Shevirah Inc.
Date: June 13, 2019 | 1 - 3pm | Location: DreamPort Facility in Columbia MD
The Perimeter has been Shattered: Cybersecurity in the Age of Mobility
Mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT) have disrupted government and enterprise networks on the scale that PCs disrupted mainframes in the 1980s. Yet the industry continue to approach cybersecurity as if though there is still a hard perimeter with nothing but company-owned end points communicating with internal applications. Mobility, however, means bring your own device (BYOD) and company issued devices connecting over public carrier networks to cloud applications. Traditional perimeter based security simply fails to address this.
From mobile-based phishing to Bluetooth or mobile modem based attacks, mobile and IoT have fundamentally changed the threat landscape. In this talk we will look at the modern threat landscape, the security controls currently available on the market (such as mobile threat defense and mobile application management), and provide real world examples and demonstrations of how they fall short under simulated attacks. Finally, we will look at practical ways to improve security around mobile and IoT.
About Georgia Weidman, Founder and CTO, Shevirah Inc.
Georgia Weidman is a serial entrepreneur, penetration tester, security researcher, speaker, trainer, mentor, and author. Her work in smartphone exploitation received a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant and has been featured internationally in print and on television. Georgia is the author of Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking. She's presented or conducted training around the world including Blackhat / DEF CON, RSA, NSA, and West Point.
Georgia founded Shevirah to create products for assessing and managing the risk of mobile devices in the enterprise and testing the effectiveness of enterprise mobility management solutions. She's also the founder of the security consulting firm Bulb Security. She is a graduate of and a mentor at the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator and an angel investor.
Georgia received the 2015 Women's Society of CyberJutsu Pentest Ninja award. She is on the board of advisors at the cybersecurity training startup Cybrary, an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University and University of Maryland University College, a member of the CyberWatch Center's National Visiting Committee, and a Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America.