From Circumstantial Evidence to Hard Facts

Presented at Black Hat Europe 2017, Dec. 6, 2017, 12:15 p.m. (25 minutes).

As attacks are getting more sophisticated, it is no longer a question of if you are going to be breached but when. Security threat prevention is still effective in blocking the vast majority of threats, but the sheer volume of attacks and associated security events means it is often hard to investigate each event using conventional tools meaning breaches will go unnoticed and uninvestigated. Time is of the essence and any solutions that can help reduce the time it takes to detect breaches and contain threats is extremely valuable. Part of the solution is advanced threat detection where anomalies in network behavior can be detected and linked to security event information to raise the priority of an event. In addition to that, security threat prevention solutions can be enhanced with the ability to provide all the details required to investigate an event faster so more events can be examined quicker. Circumstantial evidence based on flow records and event logs are no longer enough – detailed packet data available on-demand so that all the details can be seen and examined quickly is the only way to get to the hard facts and determine quickly if there is an issue or not.


Presenters:

  • Irina Palade - Product Manager, Rohde & Schwarz
  • Dan Joe Barry - VP Positioning and Chief Evangelist, Napatech
    Daniel Joseph Barry is VP of Positioning and Chief Evangelist at Napatech and has over 20 years experience in the IT and Telecom industry in roles ranging from research, development, product management, sales to marketing. Prior to joining Napatech in 2009, Dan Joe was Marketing Director at TPACK, a leading supplier of transport chip solutions to the Telecom sector. From 2001 to 2005, he was Director of Sales and Business Development at optical component vendor NKT Integration (now Ignis Photonyx) following various positions in product development, business development and product management at Ericsson. Dan Joe joined Ericsson in 1995 from a position in the R&D department of Jutland Telecom (now TDC). He has an MBA and a BSc degree in Electronic Engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

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