Mike Greenwood, Author at CounterMeasure 2019

2020 Call For Papers Open

Mike Greenwood
News
May 5, 2020

Our Call for Papers process is now open. If you have a hot topic on computer security that you would like to present and feel that your subject will be of interest to our audience, we want to hear from you. Whether you are associated with academia, government or the private sector, we invite you

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2020 3-Day Training Courses Launched

Mike Greenwood
News
May 5, 2020

COUNTERMEASURE 2020 is offering four 3-day training courses that run September 14th to the 16th in Ottawa. All content is delivered by some of the world’s most knowledgeable and influential IT security experts in private, public, and research sectors. These courses include: Hunting APTs with Yara Instructors: Costin G. Raiu Director, Global

Government of Canada: The Journey to Zero Trust

Presenter – Marc Brouillard – CTO, Government of Canada As the Government of Canada (GC) transforms its IT environment, it must enable more effective collaboration and interoperability, using modern technologies and approaches. The traditional approach to establishing a security perimeter around a network has changed over the last

Cyber Ranges: Training your Cyber Warriors : Are you REALLY ready?

Presenter: Alex Hemmati Join Cyberbit’s Head of North America Federal Sales and Operations, Alex Hemmati,as he demistifies the “cyber-range” concept and works through what it takes to ensure today’s cyber warriors have the skills and experience needed to combat zero day events for both IT and OT networks.

How to Win in the Era of the 18 Minute Breach

Presenter: John Pilon & Karl Galbraith This exclusive session delves into the details of some of CrowdStrike’s most eye opening breach investigations of the past year and highlights the need for speed in modern security operations centers. Understand a CISO’s view of these occurrences in Canada. Learn about the meaning of “breakout time”

Introducing ARM-X – The ARM IoT Firmware Emulation Framework

Presenter: Saumil Udayan Shah Don’t you wish you had a VM for testing IoT devices? I created ARM-X IoT Firmware Emulation Framework initially as a testing platform for my own research and development needs. Over the years what started as a clumsy Linux-on-ARM QEMU image has now turned into a tried-and-tested framework which has led

Shared Responsibility is not Shared Risk! Managing Risk in a Shared Responsibility Environment.

Presenter: David Pearson In this presentation we will examine how the Security Assessment & Authorization (SA&A) activities can deal with control implementations in multiple places and arrive at a consolidated view of risk and how GRC tools can provide the support. For example, when adopting cloud services, it is tempting to try to

Rethinking Vulnerability Prioritization in the Modern Threat Landscape

Presenter: James Smith The Common Vulnerability Scoring System has been the defacto standard for vulnerability scoring. In 2015 when CVSS 3.0 was released, the previous year had a total of almost 8,000 vulnerabilities. In 2017 the annual vulnerability rate skyrocketed, and 2018 had 16,000 vulnerabilities released with 4000 of those being

The Evolution of File-less Ransomware

Presenter: Douglas Santos Today’s reality is: despite the growing number of technologies, products and services and the overall growth and acceptance of the cybersecurity mindset, businesses still get hacked. Mostly because they fail to properly understand, deploy, configure and manage their security controls and procedures. Ransomware remains

Journey Through the Labyrinth of Microsegmentation

Presenter: Nicholas Rowe The advent of microsegmentation capabilities in the public and private cloud environments is a game changer….however few are prepared to handle it. Microsegmentation brings with it application of tighter network security policies, significantly more visibility, and sadly more complexity….without forethought. In this