On May 12 2017, WannaCry ransomware attack hit across 100 countries. Just after six weeks, again Petya ransomware has shut down several banks, government offices, hospitals, factories, police stations and enterprises across the world. We need to have a new way to defend against these advanced cyber threats. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of deceptive security to detect, deceive, slow, engage and trap the threats (e.g. ransomware/malware/human attacker) by laying different types of deceptions (e.g. fake hosts, ports, registry entries, credentials, applications and data bases) in the enterprise.    By fusing deceptive security with data science one does not need to boil the ocean to detect anomalies in raw data instead anomalies are surfaced itself when attacker/ransomware bumps onto the deceptions. Using data science, deception alerts are correlated with other data sources to provide actionable insights about the threat profile, lateral movements and threat tactics.

ABOUT SPEAKER

Dr Satnam Singh is currently leading security data science development at Acalvio Technologies. He has more than a decade of work experience in successfully building data products from concept to production in multiple domains. In 2015, he was named as one of the top 10 data scientists in India.  To his credit, he has 25+ patents and 30+ journal and conference publications. Apart from holding a PhD degree in ECE from University of Connecticut, Satnam also holds a Masters in ECE from University of Wyoming. Satnam is a senior IEEE member and a regular speaker in various Big Data and Data Science conferences.

Apart from holding a PhD degree in ECE from University of Connecticut, Satnam also holds a Masters in ECE from University of Wyoming. Satnam is a senior IEEE member and a regular speaker in various Big Data and Data Science conferences.