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Locknote: Conclusions and Key Takeaways from Day 1

Presented at Black Hat Asia 2021 Virtual, May 6, 2021, 3:20 p.m. (40 minutes).

At the end of day one of this year's virtual conference, join Black Hat Review Board members Mika Devonshire, Ty Miller, Pamela O'Shea and Fyodor Yarochkin for an insightful conversation on the most pressing issues facing the InfoSec community. This Locknote will feature a candid discussion on the key takeaways from day one and how these trends will impact future InfoSec strategies.


Presenters:

  • Mika Devonshire - Digital Forensics and Incident Response Specialist, S-RM
    Mika Devonshire is a specialist in digital forensics and incident response. She recently spent two years investigating cyber crimes based out of Hong Kong, and has worked with cyber insurance carriers across the globe on improving their risk underwriting methodology.<br /><br />She is currently with S-RM, a special risks and intelligence firm out of London. Prior to her time with Blackpanda, Mika spent several years in Washington DC gaining depth and experience across the cyber attack lifecycle. She was an offensive cyber systems engineer at BAE Systems, served on the internal security team at Silent Circle, and got her start in product management.<br /><br />Mika holds a Masters in Digital Forensics from George Washington University and a Bachelors in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She holds several certifications including CISSP, CISM, and GCFA among others. She regularly appears as a speaker and panelist at professional associations and conferences, and works with those looking to pivot from non-technical professions into information security.
  • Ty Miller - Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Threat Intelligence Pty Ltd
    Ty Miller is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Threat Intelligence Pty Ltd, a specialist consultancy defining the next era of security, intelligence and penetration testing approaches. He sits on the Board of Directors for CREST in Australia and New Zealand, and leads the CREST A/NZ Technical Team.<br /><br />Ty is a trainer at Black Hat, with his training courses "The Shellcode Lab" and "Practical Threat Intelligence", and has trained and presented to international government agencies, big technology and security companies at a wide range of conferences around the world including Black Hat USA, Black Hat DC, Hack-In-The-Box, and Ruxcon.<br /><br />Ty is a co-author of the highly popular security book "Hacking Exposed Linux 3rd Edition", and has developed low level attack techniques for companies including the DNS Channel payload for Core Security.<br /><br />Before founding Threat Intelligence, Ty held strategic senior management and C-Level positions in key organizations and was instrumental in developing an expert and authoritative voice to the Australian media, and today remains a high-profile media commentator for both enterprise and consumer security trends, attacks and issues.
  • Pamela O'Shea - Director, Shea Information Security
    Dr. Pamela O'Shea is Director of Shea Information Security, providing security consulting, training and penetration testing services to clients. Pamela is an industry lecturer a the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) master's programme in cyber security and co-organizes the OWASP AppSecDay Melbourne conference. &nbsp;She also runs the HaXX group to provide free technical security classroom training and mentorship to women keen to break into the technical security field. &nbsp;Outside of consulting, teaching and research, Pamela plays with radio and satellite communications and runs the Melbourne CyberSpectrum meetup on Software Defined Radio (SDR).
  • Fyodor Yarochkin - Senior Threat Researcher , Trend Micro Research
    Fyodor Yarochkin is a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro Taiwan and holds a PhD from EE, National Taiwan University. An early Snort developer, and open source evangelist as well as a "happy" programmer, Fyodor made Taiwan his second home and has been in the region for nearly two decades. Fyodor's professional experience includes several years as a threat investigator and over eight years as an information security analyst responding to network security breaches and conducting remote network security assessments and network intrusion tests for the majority of regional banking, finance, semiconductor and telecommunication organizations. Fyodor is an active member of the local security community and has spoken at several conferences regionally and globally.

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