Navigating the Alternative Facts of Malware Prevention

Presented at BSides Austin 2018, March 8, 2018, 9 a.m. (60 minutes).

This talk, given by two individuals not linked to any anti-malware vendor, is the result of over two years of research covering several dozen tools in the anti-malware space, in an effort to find the ideal tool for our corporate environment. It is intended to be an in-depth focus on the evolution of the space, the tools, and the technologies behind them, with a "no holds barred" approach to presenting our evaluation methodology and results.

Presenters:

• Josh Sokol
  Josh Sokol, CISSP, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BS in Computer Science in 2002. Since that time, he has worked for several large companies, including AMD and BearingPoint, spent some time as a military contractor, and is currently employed as the Information Security Program Owner at National Instruments. In his current role, Sokol manages all compliance, security architecture, risk management, and vulnerability management activities for NI. Sokol created the free and open source risk management tool named SimpleRisk, has spoken on dozens of security topics including the much-hyped "HTTPS Can Byte Me" talk at Black Hat 2010, and recently finished four years as a Director of the OWASP Foundation.

Links:

• https://bsidesaustin2018.sched.com/event/DuGD/navigating-the-alternative-facts-of-malware-prevention

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