After all the years of talk about biometrics and multi-factor authentication, we still have passwords and will likely have them for a long time. Tomorrow, I will be hosting a webinar on why hackers love passwords. Because many “high risk” systems require complex passwords (zk7&@1c6), most people that use them believe their passwords are secure. Hackers know this and can easily exploit it to gain access to many systems. To demonstrate this point, we will review at some of the recent high profile breaches and learn that hackers go after end-user and system administrator credentials in almost all of the cases. With all of these recent high profile breaches involving passwords, it is hard to understand why so many companies are still poorly managing their passwords. We will explore the common myths about passwords as well as several bad corporate practices and then discuss what you and your company should be doing. It' actually not that hard to remediate these bad practices – and the result improvement in security is significant. These are the most common bad practices that I see at many companies large and small: We will delve into each of these and again lay out the best practices that are being followed by many leading companies. The focus of this webinar is proper password management, and preventing a breach. Unfortunately, as we know, we must have more than strong prevention, we also must have strong detection and response capabilities for when a well funded and talented organization is attacking you. So, we will briefly review some of the things you should be doing to better detect when you are under attack. Want to learn more? Watch this webinar on-demand.

Larry Brock, Principal at Brock Cyber Security Consulting

Mr. Brock is the principal at Brock Cyber Security Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is to help companies improve their capabilities to protect, detect and respond to attacks on their intellectual property from both insider and advanced cyber threats. Previously and for more than 11 years, he was the Global Chief Information Security Officer at DuPont. Prior to this role, he has work in other Information Technology Positions, Marketing, and Research & Development at DuPont and as a Security Officer within the USAF. Within DuPont IT, he was the CIO of the Nylon Flooring business unit. He has also led the development and implementation of several large systems including; manufacturing product control, materials management, engineering maintenance, quality management, and data warehouse systems. While working in the Corporate IT group, he led the migration to open-based systems for both networking and computing. In DuPont Research & Development, Mr. Brock led the development and deployment of imaging based systems, including a patented system to electronically move radiographs between hospitals and remote physicians. He served as an Information Security Officer within the U.S. Air Force and assigned to the National Security Agency (NSA). He served on active duty at the NSA for 4 years and then in a reserve capacity for 26 years. Mr. Brock has BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and is a Certified Information Security Manager, CISM.

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