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Willy Leichter

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Alison Levine

Sam Houston

Robert Lee

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Robin Smith

Kathleen Smith

Omar Khawaja

Adam Levin

David Cross

Stephanie Lucas

Jeffrey Smith

Joel Makower

Caleb Barlow

Brian Kelly

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This contains promotional content. Learn more.Your reliance on patch management as a solution to your risk management problems isn’t working. Tomorrow isn’t going to be any better. So, now what?Our guest today, Willy Leichter, points out that the National Vulnerability Database has been tracking between 5,000 to 7,000 vulnerabilities every year; a figure that went up to about 20,000 a couple years ago, and where we're now seeing 10,000 to 15,000 per month. Trying to keep up with this trend from a patch management perspective as the sole means to eliminate vulnerabilities and mitigate risk to the business isn't scalable; it isn't feasible.To overcome this growing challenge, you must first change your mindset, approaching it from a behavioral perspective—addressing the problem at its core (from inside the app) vs. putting a bandage on the symptom (endless patching). This problem becomes even more important to tackle when you start talking about legacy systems, critical systems, and policy-controlled systems connected to sensitive information, and that can't be updated for a variety of reasons.Business marches on—technology marches on—security is always going to have to run fast to keep up. Most organizations accept that. But it can be daunting at times. Have a listen to this chat with Willy to get a different perspective on this problem. With any luck, you'll have a fighting chance to make it through tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that without a serious problem with your apps.Guest(s)Willy LeichterResourcesLearn more about their company and their offering: https://itspm.ag/itspvrssdirFor more stories from RSA Conference 2020, be sure to visit https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2020-rsac-san-francisco-coverageAre you interested in telling your story?https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story

This contains promotional content. <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-infosec-story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Learn more</a>.Your reliance on patch management as a solution to your risk management problems isn’t working. Tomorrow isn’t going to be any better. So, now what?Our guest today, Willy Leichter, points out that the National Vulnerability Database has been tracking between 5,000 to 7,000 vulnerabilities every year; a figure that went up to about 20,000 a couple years ago, and where we're now seeing 10,000 to 15,000 per month. Trying to keep up with this trend from a patch management perspective as the sole means to eliminate vulnerabilities and mitigate risk to the business isn't scalable; it isn't feasible.To overcome this growing challenge, you must first change your mindset, approaching it from a behavioral perspective—addressing the problem at its core (from inside the app) vs. putting a bandage on the symptom (endless patching). This problem becomes even more important to tackle when you start talking about legacy systems, critical systems, and policy-controlled systems connected to sensitive information, and that can't be updated for a variety of reasons.Business marches on—technology marches on—security is always going to have to run fast to keep up. Most organizations accept that. But it can be daunting at times. Have a listen to this chat with Willy to get a different perspective on this problem. With any luck, you'll have a fighting chance to make it through tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that without a serious problem with your apps. Guest(s) Willy LeichterResources Learn more about their company and their offering: <a href="https://itspm.ag/itspvrssdir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itspm.ag/itspvrssdir</a>For more stories from RSA Conference 2020, be sure to visit <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2020-rsac-san-francisco-coverage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2020-rsac-san-francisco-coverage</a>Are you interested in telling your story? <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story</a>

Their Story | Virsec | A Conversation With Willy Leichter | RSA Conference 2020

This contains promotional content. Learn more.Keep it simple, they say. With technology—and cybersecurity—most of the time, this is way easier said than done; especially when you set out from the start to solve very complex problems. But you know what you can do? You can look at these problems from a different angle and make your mission and goal to find solutions that are simple to deploy and manage.Virsec's founder and CTO, Satya Gupta, has been working on these problems for over a decade, mapping the correct memory usage of an application and then enforce it, and by doing so solving complex problems; problems that can't be explained or simplified overnight, and where the barrier to entry is set pretty high.The differentiator here is looking at everything possible to observe about an application, including memory usage, the integrity of files, the system's hygiene, etc. With this information in-hand, Virsec can create a map of virtually everything the app is supposed to do.If a picture helps to describe what this looks like, you can use an analogy like Google Maps. Virsec maps what's supposed to happen within the app and then, in real-time—since they have it mapped—they can see if it's going off the rails, going somewhere different than where is supposed to go, or in our case, if it's doing what it's supposed to do. It's a fundamentally different view of security.You can sum it up like this: Instead of worrying about what bad stuff is out there, make sure that the app does what is supposed to do and act as it is supposed to work; that is doesn't get corrupted; that it doesn't have someone change a DLL or corrupt the memory.With the national vulnerability database (NVD) breaking 20,000 entries and organizations running 10's of thousands of "endpoints" that could be compromised if the vulnerability exposure is not closed, is patching the answer? Shouldn't there be a better way?But don't take my word for it. Listen to Willy and hear how he tells this story.Guest(s)Willy Leichter, Vice President, Marketing, Virsec SystemsResourcesLearn more about their company and their offering: https://itspm.ag/itspvrssdirAre you interested in telling your story?https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story

This contains promotional content. <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-infosec-story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Learn more</a>.Keep it simple, they say. With technology—and cybersecurity—most of the time, this is way easier said than done; especially when you set out from the start to solve very complex problems. But you know what you can do? You can look at these problems from a different angle and make your mission and goal to find solutions that are simple to deploy and manage.Virsec's founder and CTO, Satya Gupta, has been working on these problems for over a decade, mapping the correct memory usage of an application and then enforce it, and by doing so solving complex problems; problems that can't be explained or simplified overnight, and where the barrier to entry is set pretty high.The differentiator here is looking at everything possible to observe about an application, including memory usage, the integrity of files, the system's hygiene, etc. With this information in-hand, Virsec can create a map of virtually everything the app is supposed to do.If a picture helps to describe what this looks like, you can use an analogy like Google Maps. Virsec maps what's supposed to happen within the app and then, in real-time—since they have it mapped—they can see if it's going off the rails, going somewhere different than where is supposed to go, or in our case, if it's doing what it's supposed to do. It's a fundamentally different view of security.You can sum it up like this: Instead of worrying about what bad stuff is out there, make sure that the app does what is supposed to do and act as it is supposed to work; that is doesn't get corrupted; that it doesn't have someone change a DLL or corrupt the memory.With the national vulnerability database (NVD) breaking 20,000 entries and organizations running 10's of thousands of "endpoints" that could be compromised if the vulnerability exposure is not closed, is patching the answer? Shouldn't there be a better way?But don't take my word for it. Listen to Willy and hear how he tells this story. Guest(s) Willy Leichter, Vice President, Marketing, Virsec SystemsResources Learn more about their company and their offering: <a href="https://itspm.ag/itspvrssdir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itspm.ag/itspvrssdir</a>Are you interested in telling your story? <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story</a>

Their Story At Hacker Summer Camp | Las Vegas 2019 | Willy Leichter, Virsec Systems