Advanced Analytics for Security: Lateral Movement Detection

It’s never been a harder time to be a security professional. Malware and exploits once held only by national intelligence services are increasingly available to miscreants for malicious activity. And not all of these breaches will originate outside the perimeter -- a persistent, sizable minority will still come from true insiders. 

In this session, we’ll discuss data science techniques that are useful in revealing the presence of intruders and malicious insiders â€" lateral movement detection. Lateral movement refers to the various techniques attackers use to progressively spread through a network as they search for key assets and data, harvest privileged credentials, exfiltrate data, and leave a persistent backdoor for ongoing access. 

 You’ll leave this session with an in-depth understanding of the analytic techniques useful in lateral movement detection and how to put these ideas into practice in your own organization.

Speaker: Anirudh Kondaveti, Pivotal