SOUTHFIELD ? Eddie Schwartz, Chief Security Officer for NetWitness, will headline the Feb. 21 meeting of Motor City ISSA. His talk is titled Detection of Beacon Trojans and Advanced Data Exfiltration Techniques.

Drawing upon experience with Titan Rain and more sophisticated attacks observed within the public and private sectors, this session provides an in-depth examination of advanced data exfiltration techniques. This session describes methodologies and technologies for analyzing and detecting these zero-day attacks and provides techniques for building an alerting function for detecting beacon Trojans.

Schwartz is CSO for NetWitness, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring software. Eddie has 25 years experience as an information technology professional and as an information security and privacy expert, specializing in the financial services and federal government sectors.

He has performed a broad range of work including technical architecture and engineering, and technology management consulting for many large commercial and U.S. Government entities. Prior to joining NetWitness, Eddie was CTO for ManTech, Executive VP and General Manager for Predictive Systems (acquired by INS), COO at Guardent (acquired by Verisign), and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Nationwide Insurance Enterprise. Eddie has an M.S. in Technology Management and a B.I.S. in Information Security from George Mason University.

Location:

Cisco Systems, Southfield Office,

2000 Tower ? Suite 405, 4th floor,

Southfield Town Center,

Southfield

Date:

Thursday ? February 21

Time:

6 pm (dinner starts), speaker begins around 6:30 pm

Please send RSVP by Feb. 18 to email [email protected]<

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