State of the Hack: The Enemy is Living in Your House


Presented at Secure360 in St. Paul, MN on May 13, 2009.

This presentation focuses on the Advanced Persistent Threat. It reviews several case studies, as well as recommendations for proactive and reactive techniques to counter the threat.

Attackers are no longer content to grab data and go. They penetrate networks and intend to stay a long time. We’ll discuss the changing game of incident response by analyzing real, recent cases from MANDIANT. The game has changed, and we need new techniques to combat the threats.

You’ll learn:

MANDIANT Intelligent Response is the industry’s first enterprise-grade incident response solution. It makes incident responders faster, less disruptive and less expensive — and makes your investigations more comprehensive and accurate.

About the speaker

Michael J. Graven is a director at MANDIANT. Like all MANDIANT consultants, he chases network bad guys through Fortune 500 companies, governments, and financial institutions. Michael earned degrees at Northwestern University and Stanford University. He has worked on internetworks and system security since 1989, working in environments as large as AT&T and Netscape to as small as twenty-person startups. He is a native Californian and a snowboarder, but he does not surf.