Defending Against Data Breaches: The Experts Line Up to Help at CLOUDSEC 2017

Data breaches can come from anywhere, the past few days alone have taught us that. Whether they stem from a malicious or careless insider, a misconfigured database or a third-party provider, the result is usually the same: financial loss, reputational damage and plenty to think about ahead of new privacy laws sweeping in from Europe. Incidents at Bupa, Verizon, Dow Jones and Newcastle City Council have shown that all organisations are at risk, no matter what sector they play in, or how much they spend on cybersecurity.

That’s why a large part of Trend Micro’s upcoming CLOUDSEC 2017 conference will be devoted to breach prevention: providing IT decision makers with new insight and best practice tips from leading industry figures. With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to land in May 2018, there’s certainly no time to lose.

A roll-call of errors

Data breaches are no longer exceptional incidents. Yet even so, the number we’ve seen over the past week or two has been remarkable. Newcastle City Council sent details of thousands of children and their adoptive parents to 77 people after accidentally attaching a spreadsheet containing the info to an email. More malicious work was at play at Bupa, which fired an employee after they stole health insurance information related to over half a million people.

Sometimes data can be exposed to the public simple through a technical configuration error. That’s what happened to publishing giant Dow Jones and telecoms multi-national Verizon. In the case of the former, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket was configured so that anyone with an AWS account could access customers’ personal and financial details linked to an estimated four million accounts. Meanwhile, as many as 14 million Verizon customers may have been affected after a third-party contractor exposed names, addresses and account details in another AWS S3 misconfiguration mix-up.

CLOUDSEC to the rescue

Fortunately, CLOUDSEC 2017 is here to help. This year’s show will be jam-packed with insight from leading figures from GCHQ, OWASP, Gartner, PwC, Microsoft, the FBI, Trend Micro and many more. There’ll be several presentations on GDPR compliance and data protection, as well as simplifying security in AWS by the firm’s Specialist Solutions Architect for Security and Compliance.

So, book your spot today for one of the year’s most eagerly anticipated cybersecurity events

What: CLOUDSEC 2017

When: Tuesday, 5 September

Where: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London