About the Speaker
Derek Manky | Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat Intelligence
Talk
Disrupting Telecommunication Threats
This talk will profile threat actor groups that are known to target Telco/MSSP, and highlight some ways (other than conventional defense methods) that can be used to holistically disrupt these threat actors. Ongoing work from the WEF Cybercrime Atlas initiative will be highlighted.
Derek Manky brings more than fifteen years of experience to a strategic and visionary cyber security role, working within the Office of the CISO at Fortinet. Manky leads a seasoned, special strategic engagement team which bridges data science with security strategy, facilitating tactics. This agile consulting team provides expert advice and is specialized in advanced threat concepts, security research, penetration testing, data insight and threat intelligence/playbook mapping.
He consults with leading CSOs/CISOs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide across multiple industries. Manky provides thought leadership to industry and has presented research and strategy worldwide at many premier security conferences. As a cyber security expert, his work has included meetings with leading political figures and key policy stakeholders globally, including law enforcement, which helps define the future of cyber security.
Manky orchestrates global threat intelligence initiatives with Fortinet, including the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, and the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). Manky has been with the Cyber Threat Alliance since it was founded in May 2014 and sits on the steering committee, working with leading security executives and CEO direction in industry. His vision is applied to help shape the future of proactive cyber security, with the ultimate goal to make a positive impact towards the global war on cybercrime.
This strategy is integrated into advanced technology frameworks to fight cyber-attacks, while keeping clients secure. Manky designed a zero-day vulnerability disclosure framework, which has been reliably used for years to responsibly fix security issues before black hat attackers get a chance to exploit victims. Manky is regularly featured in top tier media as a spokesperson, in an effort to educate. He continues to dedicate his career to security, research and education.
About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network—today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.
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