Name
D5. Defending Against Ransomware, You Already have the Capability and it’s FREE
Date & Time
Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Speakers
Description
Session Description:
2016 was the year of Ransomware, 2017 will be no different. I have listened in on many ransomware talks, at ISC2 Congress, SecureWorks ESS, BlackHat, RMISC, BSides and others, and they all fail at any real prescriptive help. They all miss the FREE things we CAN do to eliminate the bulk of the ransomware attacks. It is easy, free and nothing needs to be purchased, it just takes a little Active Directory and Email changes to implement, and a little bit of user education. Yeah yeah, everyone needs to be better at backups and not pay the ransom, but how can we really avoid it?
Location Name
Room 610/612
Full Address
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th Street
Denver, CO 80202
United States
700 14th Street
Denver, CO 80202
United States
Category
Incident Response
Learner Objectives
After completing this session, the learner will know:
- How ransomware infects us
- How ransomware gets by prevention solutions
- How to block the majority of ransomware at the email gateway
- How to block ransomware from executing on the users computer if it does get by
- Any gaps that need to be looked at
- Resources to take back and implement
Speaker Bio(s)
Michael Gough is a Malware Archaeologist, Blue Team defender, Incident Responder and logoholic. Michael developed several Windows logging cheat sheets to help the security industry understand Windows logging, where to start and what to look for. Michael also ran BSides Texas for five years and is co-developer of LOG-MD for Windows.
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