January 2017 Monthly Meeting
Swaminathan Natarajan is an Information Security Professional with nearly two decades of cyber security & privacy experience with extensive experience in architecting and managing the implementation of enterprise & cloud based Identity & Access management (IAM) solutions. He has done over 50 IAM implementations and defined over 10 IAM strategy programs for North American and European Clients . He is working as the Director in PwC CyberSecurity & Privacy Advisory practice, serving his Clients globally.
Topic 2: Navigating the Cyber Minefield - A Primer in Malware and How to Avoid it.
Abstract:
As technology improves and fuels the growth and proliferation of computing devices in all aspects of life, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to protect oneself as time goes on. Disclosures of large scale data breaches in both the public and private sector are now commonplace, and scalable on demand cloud services that are cheap and readily available are accelerating the volume and severity of new threats every day. This talk looks at the history and evolution of malware and the motivation behind various attacks while offering practical advice on how to stay safe in an ever expanding digital world.
Speaker:
Dave Rudeger is the Director of Cybersecurity Operations and Chief Security Architect at Maxim Integrated, a semiconductor manufacturer specializing in power management, analog and mixed signal processing whose products are used in some of the most recognizable brands in technology. He is responsible for securing all sensitive data and core intellectual property throughout the organization and designing and building security solutions for Maxim's network, systems and applications spanning both on premise and cloud-based architectures. In addition, Dave manages the cybersecurity operations and incident response teams thatactively hunt for and respond to security threats. He has extensive experience in software development, system and database design, and scalable web service architectures and was previously a co-founder for a company that provided secure customer data acquisition services for HP, Toshiba and Equifax among others.