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Re-Thinking Cybersecurity

Tech Theater 2

Starts: April 17, 2025 12:00 pm
Ends: 1:00 pm
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Re-Thinking Cybersecurity

Abstract:

No Security Prevention architecture will ever be 100% effective. Eventually, even the best-planned barrier will be breached, either from the outside or internally. An “assume breach” Security mindset needs to exist in parallel with efforts to prevent one, and the architecture needs to be able to address breaches which were not detected, and to contain them.

Illumio discovers and isolates threats, even those which are un-detected, and prevents initial threats from spreading into a disaster. Illumio discovers all application behavior, across all environments on which data can be hosed, then enables the enforcement of all segments in order to prevent the spread of any malware. Illumio future-proofs you against the threats of today and the AI-generated threats of tomorrow.

Speakers

Christer Swartz

Director of Industry Solutions, Illumio

Christer Swartz is Director of Industry Solutions for Illumio. He has spent many years in the Networking industry, beginning with a small startup called Cisco. He joined Cisco when their global head-count was 50 people, he was an early CCIE, and remained with them for 9 years. He has worked in the Caribbean, in Europe, and also for a small company called Netflix, when their business model was built around red envelopes and DVD's, then designed their Internet-streaming model to host movies, without breaking the Internet. He worked for many years for Palo Alto Networks, when the industry finally realized that cybersecurity was not just a good a idea but is a business enabler. Application visibility & security needs to be fully agnostic to the network or any security appliances, enabling a fully application-centric approach to seeing who is doing what to whom everywhere, and how to enforce it. 100% of us will eventually be breached, no one is too small of a target, so a breach needs to be assumed but the goal is containing it, preventing a small problem from becoming a disaster. Christer will explain how.