Leslie K. Lambert to Explain How Credit Card Industry Approach Uncovers Enterprise Security Breaches That Otherwise Appear “Normal”
LOS ANGELES – March 29, 2017 – Gurucul, a leader in user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and identity analytics (IdA) for on-premises and the cloud, today announced that CSSO Leslie K. Lambert will present a session at InfoSec World 2017 on adapting self-audit techniques common in credit card fraud prevention to enterprise security. Lambert, a contributing author to Borderless Behavior Analytics – Who’s Inside? What’re They Doing?, will be providing and signing copies of the new book at her session. It is also available for purchase on Amazon, more details about the book can be found at Borderless Behavior Analytics.
WHO:
Leslie K. Lambert, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CIPP/US/G, is the Chief Security and Strategy Officer for Gurucul where she drives company and product strategy and chairs the Executive Advisory Board. She has over 30 years of experience in information security, IT risk and compliance. Previously, she was CISO for Juniper Networks and Sun Microsystems. Lambert has received CSO Magazine’s Compass Award for security leadership and was named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders.
| WHAT: | Users are the best source of information on whether their activity is legitimate or not. Credit card companies know this and routinely enlist their help to validate anomalous activity and prevent fraud. This approach, when applied to enterprise security, can help identify breaches that evade traditional security tools. In this session, “Self-Audits: Applying User Context to Activity Anomalies”, security expert Leslie K. Lambert will explain how risk-scored activity reports can be used to defeat the compromise and misuse of identity, plus provide deterrence, and raise security awareness for employees, business partners and customers. She will use real-world enterprise use cases to explain:
• Why account compromise is so hard to detect and why traditional security methods typically cannot detect these attacks until it’s too late |
| WHERE: | InfoSec World Conference & Expo 2017. Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, ChampionsGate, Florida. http://infosecworld.misti.com |
| WHEN: | Monday, April 3, 2017, 2:15 PM – 3:05 PM EDT |
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About Gurucul
Gurucul is changing the way enterprises protect themselves against insider threats, account compromise and data exfiltration on-premises and in the cloud. The company’s user behavior analytics and identity access intelligence technology use machine learning anomaly detection and predictive risk-scoring algorithms to reduce the attack surface for accounts, unnecessary access rights and privileges, and to identify, predict and prevent breaches. Gurucul technology is used globally by organizations to detect insider threats, cyber fraud, IP theft, external attacks and more. The company is based in Los Angeles. To learn more, visit Gurucul.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.