SACRAMENTO, CA - ISC2

ISC2 Chapter Event: August 29, 2024

Location: Urban Roots, Sacramento

Sponsors: Tanium

ISC2-Sacramento chapter members and friends, it is what you’ve been waiting for. This month’s event report out. This one comes on the eve of the final day without meaningful football, which is also the last day for your fantasy football drafts and final tweaks to your teams. In the spirit of the fantasy football draft, ISC2-Sacramento will give you THREE “can’t miss” picks. 1) Christian McCaffrey as your #1 Fantasy Football overall selection 2) Mark Liu and Tanium as your educators of choice for A Holistic Approach to CyberSecurity 3) The Brisket at Urban Roots Christian McCaffrey, has a 7% favorable rate. You love him if you’re the 3% of the population that are 49er fans, or the 10% of the fantasy football players that have him on your team. He is your worst nightmare otherwise. The Brisket at Urban Roots, has a 94% favorable rate. The other 6% are vegetarians, vegans. Nobody that likes meat, does not like Urban Roots Brisket. Mark and Tanium combined have a 99% favorable rate. The other 1% work for a competitor. During the presentation, Mark walked us through the importance of taking a holistic approach to cybersecurity. It is not enough to look straight ahead. You must also look left and right. In his words, this means, preventing the attacks in the first place and addressing dwell time after compromise. In 54% of cases, organizations learned they were compromised from an external source. That number rises to 70% for ransomware related intrusions. This drives home the importance of having the right tools in place, including tools that collect the data necessary to address vulnerabilities. Amongst other statistics, we learned the percentages of cyberattacks that could have been prevented by timely patches and updates, the percentage of companies that believe they are vulnerable to cyberattack due to unpatched software, and the amount of software vulnerabilities published in 2021. For more information, or the full presentation given by Mark Liu and Tanium, feel free to reach out to your local ISC2-Sacramento chapter board and we would be happy to connect you. With that… we will leave you now to say goodbye to your non-football watching friends and family until February, but we hope to see you at the next ISC2-Sacramento event coming soon.