CrowdStrike CEO & Co-Founder George Kurtz to Keynote Cyber Security Summit USA

NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CrowdStrike, a global provider of security technologies and services focused on identifying advanced threats and targeted attacks, today announced that its CEO and Co-Founder, George Kurtz, will be keynoting at the Cyber Security Summit USA conference in New York City this afternoon.  George will be presenting on a "Portrait of a Targeted Attacker: Who's Behind Today's Most Sophisticated Attacks" at 1:15pm ET at the New York Hilton Midtown. Details on his session are below. 

The Cyber Security Summit is an exclusive conference series connecting C-Level and senior executives responsible for protecting their companies' critical infrastructures with cutting-edge technology providers and renowned information security experts. For the full event agenda, please visit: http://www.cybersummitusa.com/

Keynote Details
1:15 PM ET Thursday, September 18^th 2014
New York Hilton Midtown
1335 6th Ave, New York, NY 10019 

"Portrait of a Targeted Attacker: Who's Behind Today's Most Sophisticated Attacks"
The cyber security landscape has seen dramatic changes in recent years with the advent and evolution of new, growing, and ever-present adversaries. As targeted attacks and advanced adversaries continue to evolve and become increasingly sophisticated, it becomes difficult to keep pace and stay protected.

George Kurtz, President/CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdStrike, will present ways to identify and prevent damage from targeted attacks using an intelligence-driven security approach. Enterprises need to proactively defend against and effectively respond to cyber incidents by using intelligence - to reveal not only where the adversary is today, but where they have been and what their objectives will be tomorrow. This approach requires a security strategy that is business aligned, threat based, and intelligence driven.

This dynamic session will dive into a recent case study and reveal ways that nation-state adversaries are conducting malware-free intrusions. George will walk-through a scenario and demonstrate how to combat security threats that elude current defenses.

About George Kurtz
Serial entrepreneur George Kurtz co-founded CrowdStrike, a cutting-edge, big data, security technology company focused on helping enterprises and governments protect their most sensitive intellectual property and national security information. Kurtz is an internationally recognized security expert, author, entrepreneur, and speaker. He has more than 20 years of experience in the security space, including extensive experience driving revenue growth and scaling small and large organizations. His entrepreneurial background and ability to commercialize nascent technologies has enabled him to drive innovation throughout his career by identifying market trends and correlating them with customer feedback, resulting in rapid growth for the businesses he has run.

His prior roles at McAfee, a $3-billion security company, include Worldwide Chief Technology Officer and GM, as well as SVP of Enterprise. Prior to joining McAfee, Kurtz started Foundstone in October 1999 as the founder and CEO responsible for recruiting the other six founding team members. Foundstone, a world wide security products and services company, had one of the leading incident response practices in the industry, and was acquired by McAFee in October of 2004. He also authored the best-selling security book of all time, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.

About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike is a global provider of security technology and services focused on identifying advanced threats and targeted attacks. Using big-data technologies, CrowdStrike's next-generation threat protection platform leverages real-time Stateful Execution Inspection (SEI) at the endpoint and Machine Learning in the cloud instead of solely focusing on malware signatures, indicators of compromise, exploits, and vulnerabilities. The CrowdStrike Falcon Platform is a combination of big-data technologies and endpoint-security driven by advanced threat intelligence. CrowdStrike Falcon enables enterprises to identify unknown malware, detect zero-day threats, pinpoint advanced adversaries and attribution, and prevent damage from targeted attacks in real time.

SOURCE CrowdStrike

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