Matt Gordon-Smith,
Project Manager, Siemens Information
Services for the BBC
Panelist
Marco Plas, Principal Security Consultant/Head
of Jericho Research for Capgemini
Panelist
Adam Powers, Chief Technology Officer, Lancope,
Inc.
Description:
Are your network security defences up to the
job? Networks face increasing threats both
from inside the organisation and from
the Internet. Conventional perimeter defences
can miss insider threats, as well as zero-day
attacks. Another approach is needed. Unlike
signature-based technologies, Network Behaviour
Analysis (NBA) solutions leverage the existing
network infrastructure to deliver total network
visibility, ensuring network security, performance
and availability. This flow-based approach
combines network performance monitoring with
behaviour-based anomaly detection to cost
effectively secure and optimise network operations.
This Webinar
will:
Define flow-based anomaly detection and
network performance monitoring, and
demonstrate how organisations are using
this approach to cost effectively secure
and monitor their internal networks while
leveraging the existing infrastructure
Describe what Network Behaviour Analysis
(NBA) is and compare how NBA solutions
provide network visibility and security
across the enterprise versus traditional
signature IDS/IPS technologies
Provide expert views from a noted security
analyst on how organisations can
leverage existing network infrastructures
and gain significant economic benefit
from an NBA approach to securing and monitoring
enterprise networks
Explore Siemens/BBC case study to provide
insight into real-life deployment of
an effective NBA solution
Matt Gordon-Smith is a Senior Consultant with Siemens Insight Consulting, leading the Security Architecture & Design team. Matt has an honours Bachelors degree in Information & Computer Science and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Matt started his career in IBM, initially as a Network Architect. His interest insecurity started early on, as he designed and implemented network and firewall solutions. He became acutely aware of the issues surrounding security perimeters and the importance of access control and logical and physical network separation between networks of differing trust. Matt’s work as network custodian, responsible for the configuration management, user controls and patch management of network devices also gave him a firm grasp of these important security elements.
Matt soon moved within IBM from this role to a position as a Security Architect, using the security knowledge developed in his previous role and specialising in the implementation and management of security around networks. This role allowed him to explore the greater realms of security and to develop knowledge in the other security domains. Matt’s work as a Security Architect has taken him to different business sectors and has involved creating solutions from small requirements up to enterprise architectures.
Marco Plas
Marco Plas MSc graduated in Business Economy and Business Information Science with a specialization in applied mathematics. After his studies, Marco dedicated himself to information security. Currently he works for Capgemini in the Netherlands as Principal Security consultant, Security domain leader and Head of the Jericho Research group. Marco is specialized in the areas of IT continuity, Security Management, Architecture, Identity Management and Compliance.
Adam Powers
CTO, Lancope
With a decade of operational and engineering experience in enterprise IP security technologies, Adam commands considerable expertise in datacenter network design, IP flow analysis techniques, content delivery networks, and enterprise network security planning and management. During his tenure as a Sergeant with the US Marine Corps, Adam managed UNIX and IP networks across 5 operational datacenters and participated in several highly confidential information security initiatives. A recognized network optimization and security expert and prolific author of technical documents, Adam has spoken at numerous industry events, including RSA, Interop and CSI conferences as well as ISSA Chapter meetings throughout the country. He was also selected to participate on Network World’s Security Tour, which featured a panel of distinguished industry thought-leaders.
