Presented by: CSA Washington DC Metro Chapter
SaaS powers the modern workplace, as organizations move their critical business systems such as email, collaboration, sales and marketing to third-party SaaS applications. With more and more of the business data sitting in these cloud applications, threat-focused teams need to figure out how to run detection and incident response workflows on systems they don’t own and control. Obsidian CTO and former NSA engineer Ben Johnson will discuss how you can get better at detecting, investigating, and responding to unwanted behavior such as unauthorized access across multiple SaaS platforms using native cloud capabilities and third-party systems.
Speaker: Ben Johnson, CTO & Co-Founder, Obsidian Security
Speaker Bio: Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security. Prior to founding Obsidian, he co-founded Carbon Black and most recently served as the company's Chief Security Strategist. As the company's original CTO, he led efforts to create the powerful capabilities that helped define the next-generation endpoint security space. Prior to Carbon Black, Ben was an NSA computer scientist and later worked as a cyber engineer in an advanced intrusion operations division for the intelligence community. Ben is active in the cybersecurity community, where he is a technical advisor to the US FISA Court and sits on the boards of multiple security startups.
Ben earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Newport Beach, CA with his wife and three sons.