Triangle (Raleigh-Durham) Chapter

CSA Triangle Virtual Meetup on Zoom - (1) Scalable Threat Hunting & (2) Applying DS/ML techniques fo

Presentation 1 (12:00 pm - 12:30 pm) Title: Scale Team Threat Hunting with Kestrel as a Service Abstract: Threat hunting can be slow and tedious due to the manual steps required. Kestrel is an open-source project that provides a language for humans to express what to hunt and a machine interpreter that deals with how to hunt. Although Kestrel improves the time to detect, there are limitations to team capabilities in threat hunting tools and standards. The power of team threat hunting may be able to remove the limitations, therefore, increasing the MTTD, achieved by combining Kestrel with JupyterHub hunts with Kestrel huntbooks in order to be persistent and shared by team members. Join this talk to learn about Kestrel as a Service and standing up an environment quickly. Speaker : Kenneth Peeples, Principal Cybersecurity Architect, Red Hat Bio: I have a passion for Cybersecurity and anything open source. I have worked on many initiatives globally for Red Hat and currently pursuing my Doctorate in Systems Engineering from CSU. Examining problems and providing solutions are enjoyable to me, especially for government agencies. I have enjoyed concentrating on Zero Trust Architecture, Edge and the Hybrid Cloud. Currently working on two community projects Kestrel-as-a-Service for Team Threat Hunting and Crowsnet-security for Zero Trust Visualization. I enjoy working with Open Source Communities including AI. I started the Kestrel as a Service Project with threat hunting with the kestrel language and Jupyterhub on Kubernetes. https://github.com/ opencybersecurityalliance/ Presentation 2 (12:30 pm - 1:00 pm) Title: Applying data science and machine learning techniques for detecting security threats in software supply chain Abstract: The presentation will give an overview of software supply chain security threats and it will describe data science and ML oriented methods for detecting these threats. Speaker : Pankaj Telang, Principal Engineer, Stacklok Bio: Pankaj has over 20 years of experience in the areas of AI, ML, computer vision, cybersecurity, and software development. Prior to Stacklok, Pankaj worked as a Principal Staff Scientist for SAS, focused on cybersecurity and computer vision, where he developed ML algorithms for detecting suspicious user and device activities from network communications.

Privileged Access Management (PAM) & NY DFS 500

To join in-person : Varonis Office (3300 Paramount Pkwy, Suite 300, Morrisville, NC 27560) To join remotely : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3775705632 Agenda : 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ET: Arrival, Food, Drinks and Networking (sponsored by Delinea & CSA Triangle ) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm ET: Presentation (details below) 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm ET: Food, Drinks and Networking (sponsored by Delinea & CSA Triangle ) Abstract/Summary: Delinea will introduce Privileged Access Management ( PAM ) in the cybersecurity industry, highlighting its value to customers and explaining the recent increased focus on PAM. They will also discuss the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) mandate and its impact on customers and the PAM industry. Speaker Bios : James Malfitano is the Senior Channel Account Manager for Delinea, which partners with organizations to provide privileged access management solutions as a means of strengthening security posture and mitigating risk. From a channel perspective, James supports the partner ecosystem within the Carolinas, in addition to areas in the Southeast, TOLA, and Rocky Mountain regions. Originally from New Jersey, he now resides in Naples, FL with his wife Vanessa and children Logan and Ava. Cory McCann-Tam is an Enterprise Account Executive that has worked for Delinea over 5 years now. His territory focus is the Carolinas and covers all commercial businesses between 500 million to 10 billion dollars in revenue. Cory partners with customers to help them centralize their authorization for their Privileged Access Management program. Originally from St. Petersburg, FL, he now resides in Charlotte, NC.