Corey Nachreiner, CISSP, Senior Network Security Analyst, WatchGuard Technologies

2010 Internet Threat Landscape: Why you need XTM and XCS

 Network security is an arms race. Every year, hackers evolve their attacks, changing the network security and threat landscape. In order to keep your defenses current, you must remain vigilante of the latest threats. During this presentation, Corey Nachreiner, CISSP, Senior Network Security Strategist for WatchGuard Technologies, discusses six of the top security and attack trends that have impacted businesses in 2010, and how you can protect yourself from them

At this talk, you will learn how attackers are increasingly targeting 3rd party applications, how fake antivirus programs run rampant, and how even Mac users are at risk. You’ll also hear how the Web poses the biggest threat of all, due to common web-based attacks like drive-by downloads, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection. To make things more exciting, you’ll even see many of these attacks in action, with a live demo that combines three threats into one.

However, the goal of this presentation isn’t to scare you, but to arm you with the intelligence you need to rigorously defend your network. So Nachreiner will also share how you can protect yourself from these threats, using both WatchGuard’s products and other tools. As the G.I. Joe cartoon used to say, “Knowing is half the battle.” Join us at NCA’s 2010 Security and Technology Conference to get in the know.

 Corey Nachreiner has been with WatchGuard since 1999 and has since written more than a thousand concise security alerts and easily-understood educational articles for WatchGuard users. His security training videos have generated hundreds of letters of praise from thankful customers and accumulated more than 100,000 views on YouTube and Google Video. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Corey speaks internationally and is often quoted by other online sources, including C|NET, eWeek, and Slashdot. Corey enjoys "modding" any technical gizmo he can get his hands on, and considers himself a hacker in the old sense of the word.