When it comes to responding to the latest attacks from threat actors, working as a team is paramount. Have you prepared for this type of event? Do you practice? What proactive measures have you put in place? How do you get funding? Please join this session as we delve into these questions and focus on some proactive processes that can be put in place to accelerate response and increase coordination. There will also be time for Q & A if you have additional questions.
With nearly 20 years of experience, Christopher has designed and delivered some of the most comprehensive proactive security programs for the world's largest organizations in industries including: financial, defense, commercial, and manufacturing. Throughout his career, he has led incident response teams for some of the largest data breach investigations. At IBM, Christopher is responsible for proactive security services, incident response, containment and remediation, balancing his technical background with business strategy and communications. A true problem solver, he works closely with organizations to help them use technology to respond to incidents and also helps them understand what happened and communicate it to the proper stakeholders. Prior to joining IBM X-Force IRIS, Christopher was a consultant at CrowdStrike, where he was heavily focused on incident remediation. He also worked to create complex scenarios and tabletop exercises for organizations to understand the need for preparedness. Before CrowdStrike, Christopher spent more than 15 years working for L-3 Communications. It was in this position that Christopher started his career in IT, discovering his passion for security after working tirelessly to secure the organization.
Please join Dr. Herbert Lin for his discussion on the theory of managing the tradeoffs between functionality and security. Dr. Lin is a Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution and senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, both at Stanford University.
Dr. Lin's research interests relate broadly to policy-related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace, and he is particularly interested in the use of offensive operations in cyberspace as instruments of national policy and in the security dimensions of information warfare and influence operations on national security. In addition to his positions at Stanford University, he is Chief Scientist, Emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity (not in residence) at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In 2016, he served on President Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT.