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memory protection, and trusted execution environments. Behavioral analytics products watch
from the outside, ready to quarantine and investigate devices that are doing something
suspicious or anomalous. Processing and analysis still has to happen somewhere, but we will
increasingly leverage flexible computing resources instead of dedicated agents. Distributed
enforcement points are already emerging that will spread enforcement throughout a network of
devices, with multiple points communicating and collaborating in real time about their detection
and protection actions.

In summary, increasing our threat defense effectiveness throughout the security industry will be
key to staying ahead of the adversaries. It is critical that multiple industry participants work
together to solve big-picture problems that cannot be addressed by simple patches or software
updates. We need to share information more broadly among industry leaders to not only give us
greater volume and detail in telemetry, but also aid in deception techniques. By increasing our
use of predictive analytics, improving security visibility with both organizational assets and
decentralized data, and reducing our use of dedicated agents, we can better protect, detect and
correct cyber-attacks and increase our effectiveness in the threat defense lifecycle.

About the Author

Raj Samani is an active member of the Information Security
industry, through involvement with numerous initiatives to improve
the awareness and application of security in business and society.
He is currently working as the EMEA Chief Technical Officer for
Intel Security, having previously worked as the Chief Information
Security Officer for a large public sector organisation in the UK. He
was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame (2012), won
the Virus Bulletin Péter Ször Award for the paper/investigation he
co-authored on the takedown of the Beebone Botnet, and was
named in the UK’s top 50 data leaders and influencers by
Information Age.

He previously worked across numerous public sector organisations,
in many cyber security and research orientated working groups
across Europe. He is also the author of Syngress books ‘Applied Cyber Security and the Smart
Grid’, “CSA Guide to Cloud Computing”, and technical editor of “Industrial Network Security
(vol2)” and “Cyber Security for decision makers”. In addition, Raj is currently the Cloud Security
Alliance’s Chief Innovation Officer and previously served as Vice President for Communications
in the ISSA UK Chapter where he presided over the award of Chapter Communications
Programme of the Year 2008 and 2009. He is also Special Advisor for the European
CyberCrime Centre, also on the advisory council for the Infosecurity Europe show, Infosecurity
Magazine, and expert on both searchsecurity.co.uk, and Infosec portal, and regular columnist
on Help Net Security. He has had numerous security papers published, and regularly appears
on television commenting on computer security issues.

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