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Best Practices for Eliminating SSL Encrypted Traffic Blind Spots

• Wednesday, February 4th, 2015 at 1:00 PM EST (18:00:00 UTC)
• John Pescatore, Greg Mayfield, and David Wells

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Overview

Gartner* believes that, in 2017, more than half of the network attacks targeting enterprises will use encrypted traffic to bypass controls. Take action and join us for this live webcast to learn best practices that can help eliminate security blind spot created by your encryption traffic.

Find out about solutions that provide the means to combat the security threats hidden in HTTPS traffic while still preserving privacy, policy and regulatory compliance.

Learn how to apply policies and protection to combat threats hidden in HTTPS traffic and applications:

• Shut down the most common delivery mechanism for advanced threats
• Orchestrate "payloads of interest" to existing defenses
• Preserve privacy and compliance through policy

* Jeremy D'Hoinne, Adam Hills, Gartner "Security leaders Must address threats from Rising SSL Traffic", December 2013

Speaker Bios

John Pescatore

John Pescatore joined SANS as director of emerging security trends in January 2013. He has 35 years experience in computer, network and information security. Prior to joining the SANS Institute, Mr. Pescatore was Gartner's lead security analyst for 13 years, working with global 5000 corporations and major technology and service providers. Before joining Gartner, Mr. Pescatore was Senior Consultant for Entrust Technologies and Trusted Information Systems, where he started, grew and managed security consulting groups focusing on firewalls, network security, encryption and Public Key Infrastructures. Prior to that, Mr. Pescatore spent 11 years with GTE developing secure computing and telecommunications systems. Mr. Pescatore began his career at the National Security Agency, where he designed secure voice systems, and the United States Secret Service, where he developed secure communications and surveillance systems. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and is a NSA Certified Cryptologic Engineer. He is also an Extra class amateur radio operator, callsign K3TN.

David Wells

David Wells is VP of Product Management for SSL Visibility products at Blue Coat Systems. David joined Blue Coat as part of Blue Coat's acquisition of the SSL Visibility Appliance product family from Netronome Systems, where he was a co-founder. He has over 25 years experience in networking, telecommunications and security related businesses ranging from startups to multi-nationals and has contributed to various standards bodies and is the holder of a number of technology patents. David has a BSc from Stirling University and a PhD from Cranfield Institute of Technology in the UK.

Greg Mayfield

Greg Mayfield is a Director of Product Marketing at Tenable, Inc. leading the marketing efforts for the company's Tenable.io Platform, its Vulnerable Management (VM) application and its Cloud Security solutions. A creative marketer and evangelist, his responsibilities include driving the promotion, awareness and sale of Tenable’s market-leading security solutions, enabling the global sales field and channels to accelerate sales, and driving thought leadership in support of the network security industry. With over 25 years of experience in the networking industry, Greg has held various strategic marketing, product marketing and product line management roles in several high-technology companies, with an emphasis on network security, network and systems management, cloud and data center solutions.