A major cyber security innovation summit was held in Canberra today, bringing together ‘an influential group of public sector executives and security leaders from around the world to discuss the leading trends in technology.’
Australia’s national capital, Canberra, and its National Press Club was the venue for today’s Intel Security ‘Cyber Security Innovation Summit’, billing itself as ‘a great platform for sharing innovative ideas and networking.’
Topics covered today included: innovation, cyber security, cloud security, privacy, cyber attribution, Internet of Things, and more.
Intel Security’s Demonstration Hub was in action, where attendees were able to see the company’s ‘latest solutions in action, including Security Connected and ePO, Next Generation Firewall, Next generation Endpoint, SIEM and Advanced Malware.’
The keynote speaker at today’s event was Intel Security’s Director of Standard and Technology Policy, Kent Landfield, (LinkedIn page, Intel Security blog page) who travelled from Intel Security HQ in the US to present today.
The focus of his speech was on ‘government policy and organisational security’ and we spoke to Landfield a few minutes ago to get the flavour of his keynote presentation, the security threats we face, what is happening around the world and in Australia, how he sees security threats and needs evolving in the future and more.
Landfield explained in his talk that there is a ‘global shift across organisations toward ‘useful’ risk management, with increased information sharing of cyber attack detection and resolution resulting not only in increased visibility, but improved products and offering.’
He was also able to share how Intel and Intel Security are working to add security to America’s critical infrastructure – ‘transforming decade old legacy devices that were not designed for security (but that will continue to be used for many more years) by adding new and unique layers of security that can help guard against national attacks.’
My interview with Kent is embedded below.
For those curious about Landfield’s bio, aside from being Intel Security’s Director of Standards and Technology Policy, he has spent ‘25+ years in software development, global network operations and network security arenas.
Previously he was Director of Content Strategy, Architecture and Standards in McAfee Labs, the McAfee Labs Vulnerability Group Architect and one of McAfee’s Principal Architects.
Before this, Lanfield managed the global Risk and Compliance Security Research teams, and has been actively involved in global security automation development efforts for many years.
He has been extremely active in the NIST National Cybersecurity Framework development, participating in all workshops as well as writing RFI and draft comments, and has participated in the U.S. President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) efforts.
Landfield is also participating in threat and information sharing efforts. He was one of the founding members of the CVE Editorial Board.
Kent is also an OVAL Board member and is highly active in SCAP related development projects, both from a content and product perspective. In addition to that impressive bio, he also holds patents in DNS, Email and software patch distribution technologies.
View the original content and more from this author here:
http://ift.tt/1NGC1Nu
from cyber security caucus http://ift.tt/1hrmPKe
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment