The Cyber Threats, Managing the Risk to an Enterprise

Technologies & Applications Spring 2012 Seminar Series

 
When?
Friday 30 March 2012, 10:00 to 12:00
Where?
39 BB 02
Open to:
Public, Staff, Students
Speaker:
Dr Adrian Nish, Senior Consultant and Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead, Detica

The corporate IT network is a battle-ground of a range of modern threats. Cybercriminals looking to make financial gain, attention-seekers trying to create headlines, professional hackers aiming to steal sensitive documents, and even moles acting as legitimate employees all create significant risks for those tasked with defending the network. To make matters worse, the traditional technology and methods of these defenders has failed to keep pace with the ingenuity of the attackers and the industrialisation of their methods. This seminar will give an overview of the threat landscape and draw on real case studies from investigations done by the Detica Treidan Cyber Intrusion Detection team. Examples of social engineering tricks, exploits, custom malware, and threat correlation will be presented along with descriptions of some of the cutting-edge techniques being used to detect them.

Biography

Dr Adrian Nish holds a PhD in Physics from University of Oxford. He is an expert in data-mining on massive datasets and has most recently been applying these methods on the Detica Treidan team for the detection of targeted malware on corporate networks. He also leads the Threat Intelligence team which analyse the malware and track the infrastructure of the groups behind the attacks.

Date:
Friday 30 March 2012
Time:

10:00 to 12:00


Where?
39 BB 02
Open to:
Public, Staff, Students
Speaker:
Dr Adrian Nish, Senior Consultant and Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead, Detica