Tim Crothers
Tim is fortunate to be the CISO for Mandiant as well as lead the Cloud Threat and Adversary Operations team for Google Cloud. In these roles Tim and his team get to defend Mandiant and Google Cloud from some of the most sophisticated adversaries in the world. Tim has almost 40 years in the technology space, starting his professional career in 1986, and has been privileged to work in security since 1994. Over the course of these years he's had the opportunity to work in all aspects of cyber security and has a particular passion for cyber threat intelligence, reverse engineering, and incident response and breach investigation. He's also authored or co-authored 17 books to date as well as spoken frequently internationally at some of the largest cyber security conferences in the world. More importantly, Tim is blessed to be the partner of a spouse of 37 years and have 3 kids and 8 grandkids who call him Baba. Ultimately, Tim has a passion for finding and developing talent as he believes that leaving the world a little better than we found it is everyone's responsibility.
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Session
Honeypots and other deception techniques have existed for decades but rarely are they deployed in most production environments. In this talk we’ll dig into practical and easy ways to use deception and do our best to fix that gap. More specifically, in this talk we’ll share ready to deploy and customize honey tokens, honey documents and similar tools ready to be used in your organization. We’ll work with Security Onion as our detection platform and show you how to get deception deployed quickly and easily to the detriment of the cyber criminals and benefit of your defenses!