Lecture 10

DISPELLING THE TOP 10 MYTHS OF CYBERSECURITY (March 29, 2018)

For the 10th lecture in NYU Tandon’s renowned cybersecurity series, join CrowdStrike’s Co-Founder & CTO Dmitri Alperovitch.

Few people in the private sector have faced as many nation-state and criminal cyber adversaries as CrowdStrike’s Co-Founder & CTO Dmitri Alperovitch. He has investigated such high-profile incidents as the famous hack of the Democratic National Committee, Operations Aurora and Shady RAT. In this engrossing talk, he will share his experiences from the cyber equivalent of hand-to-hand combat with some of the most sophisticated intrusion actors and dispel the top 10 popular misconceptions that most people have about cybersecurity.

Speakers

Dmitri Alperovitch

Distinguished Lecturer

Co-Founder and CTO, CrowdStrike, Inc.

Dmitri Alperovitch is the Co-Founder and CTO of CrowdStrike, Inc., a leading provider of next- generation endpoint security, threat intelligence and incident response services. A renowned computer security researcher, h...

Omkhar Arasaratnam

Distinguished Panelist

Executive Director of Data Protection Engineering, JP Morgan Chase

Omkhar Arasaratnam is an experienced cybersecurity and technical risk management executive. He has lead organizations to realize their business goals while effectively managing cybersecurity risk and compliance requireme...

Geoff Brown

Distinguished Panelist

Head of NYC Cyber Command and Chief Information Security Officer, City of New York

Geoff Brown was appointed Chief Information Security Officer for the City of New York in 2016, a position focused on cybersecurity and aggregate information risk across all 100+ NYC departments and agencies. In July 2017...

Garin Pace

Welcome Remarks/Distinguished Panelist

Cyber Product Leader, Financial Lines and Property, AIG

Garin Pace is a Cyber Product Leader at AIG, responsible for cyber exposure in the Financial Lines and Property products globally. In this role, Pace is responsible for shaping and driving the underwriting strategy for a...

Ramesh Karri

Opening & Closing Remarks

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Ramesh Karri is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is a co-founder of NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Karri's research interests include trustworthy hardware (integr...

Randal Milch

Moderator

Co-Chair, NYU Center for Cybersecurity and Distinguished Fellow, NYU Law Center on Law and Security

Randal Milch is the Co-Chair of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and a Distinguished Fellow at the NYU Law Center on Law and Security. He was most recently executive vice president and strategic policy adviser to Verizon...

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