Organizations often lack context to understand what their security maturity is, and which practical steps they could take to harden their systems.  This talk will cover recent cyber security incidents, the methodologies the attackers used, and how they were ultimately discovered.  We will provide the audience with actionable investigative exercises to assess how they would have done in the same situations.  Lastly, as no talk is complete without mentioning Artificial Intelligence, we will also describe what AI is in the context of cyber security, and how to understand whether the hair-on-fire headlines are accurate. Free for members, $20 for nonmembers. Lunch provided. Sponsored by StrikeReady.

Alex Lanstein is Chief Evangelist at StrikeReady, running threat research and driving TI/DFIR platform capabilities.  Previously, Alex spent 15 years at FireEye, closing the loop between threat actor observations and product development.  Before StrikeReady, he ran multiple Asia nexus espionage investigations at Meta, protecting targeted users on platform from exploitation.