Boston AWS Meetup, May 12, 2014, 7 to 9pm
Thank you to Tom McLaughlin with HubSpot for arranging our meetup location this month.
Location: HubSpot, Inc.25 First Street, 2nd FloorCambridge, MA 02141
And a big thank you to Alert Logic for sponsoring food and drinks.
Presentations:
ANATOMY OF AN ATTACK: It Takes an Expert to Stop Attackers
An up-close look at today's world of cybercrime, the evolution of hackers to attackers, and how it affects the corporate IT landscape.
The global cybercrime market increased to over $13 billion dollars of business losses in 2013, and this threat continues to grow. Recent headlines tell us about the Veterans Affairs database breach where healthcare organization's patient data was exposed, and also incidents of state-sponsored hacking aimed at the energy industry and most recently – the Target Breach. Attacks have advanced far beyond the early threats of tech-savvy kids wreaking havoc on computer networks. Today’s attackers are fast, well-funded and organized. Our discussion will take you into the world of cybercrime and give you an insider’s look into how attackers operate and what you can do to protect your information in the cloud.Join Alert Logic for a conversation as we discuss:
• A profile of today's evolved hackers
• What attackers are really after, why and how they're getting it
• Strategies you can implement to protect against attacks
• How to leverage cyber-security experts to augment your internal team
Presenter: Stephen Coty, Chief Security Evangelist – Alert Logic
Stephen Coty is the Chief Security Evangelist at Alert Logic in Houston TX and a member of ISSA, Infragard and the HTCIA. He formally ran the Threat Research team building threat content and delivering threat intelligence to the customer base. Before coming to Alert Logic he was the Manager of Cyber Security for Rackspace Hosting. Prior to Rackspace He has worked at several companies including Wells Fargo Bank, Applied Materials, Stanford Medical Center and The Netigy Corporation. He has been in the Information Technology field since 1993 with a Focus on Security as of 1999 where he started as a penetration tester and auditor. Research has been his primary focus since 2007.
