Cybersecurity Special Interest Group

The Future of Fraud Today

Presenter: Bryan Fite, Account CISO, BT Security

The presenter revisits the topic of Corporate Identity Fraud from his first GSEC Gold paper https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/engineering/corporate-identity-fraud-life-cycle-management-corporate-identity-assets-1650 with a focus on how the state of corporate identity security has matured and if organizations are prepared for the world of software defined everything, nation state threat actors and coexisting with the Internet of Dangerous Things.

The presentation will update the definition of Corporate Identity Assets and relevant Threat Catalog items associated with Corporate Identity Fraud as well as articulate control affinities and practical life-cycle practices. Positing how transformational trends in mobility, compute and social media conspire to make organizations more vulnerable, while demonstrating how marketing, security and operations can join forces to “turn the tables” on their adversaries by becoming “hard targets”.