Event Details

Briefing Abstract:
Oil and Natural Gas, as part of Critical infrastructure, is a highly targeted and threat volatile area. In today’s world, the ability to quickly identify and understand an enterprise’s exposure, while increasing its capability to handle emerging and advanced threats, typically relies on static analytics, leaving most organizations with a substantially reactive cybersecurity posture. In contrast, forward looking cybersecurity entities are leveraging threat intelligence, grey space initiatives, and proactive hunt capabilities to address the questions of who, what, when, and how-long as they apply in the cybersecurity context.

In this discussion we will use our past experience and industry leading capability to characterize a successful, next generation hunt- targeting key threat actors, and demonstrating how organizations can utilize the knowledge of their environment, coupled with advanced intelligence, to bolster their defenses and decrease their attack surface.

Speakers:

Paul Hinders, Booz Allen - Sr. Associate, Threat Detection and Response

Chris Wightman, Booz Allen -  Federal Threat Hunter, Cyber Threat Analyst

Speaker Bios:

Paul Hinders leads Booz Allen’s Commercial Threat Defense & Response practice incorporating Threat Hunt, Detection & Response, Detection Engineering, Security Technologies/Engineering, Detection Solutions, and AI for SOC. He possesses over 17 years’ experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security, working across both U.S. Federal and a variety of Commercial Verticals. His experience includes Research and Development, Large-scale Enterprise and Cloud Operations, Attack Surface Management/Reduction, Threat Hunting, Security Engineering, and Detection & Response. He has led design and delivery of major Threat Defense Operations programs - driving development and implementation of world class solutions while bolstering visibility, coverage, and response; further driving maturity and protection of company’s greatest assets.

Chris Wightman leads Booz Allen's Federal Threat Hunt capability delivering Hunt services to multiple Agencies across the Federal Civilian Executive Branch as well as the Department of Defense. He possesses over 25 years of experience in Information Technology with 16 in Cybersecurity. His experience includes secure infrastructure design, implementation, certification and accreditation, security operations, and Threat Hunt. Chris has been building and leading Threat Hunt teams for over 8 years and brings a mature Threat Hunt strategy and methodology to ensure delivery of Threat Hunt provides clients the most relevant and actionable outcomes from every engagement. Aside from proactively identifying. Threat Actor behaviors that have evaded traditional defenses, Chris understands and delivers the additional value that Threat Hunt provides to include the identification of security hygiene issues, insecure user behaviors, and insecure configurations and providing remediation recommendations to allow clients to improve the overall security posture of their enterprise.