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Topic

Revolutionizing Cyber Security w/ Data Science

Abstract

Cyber Security is a big challenge for Enterprise customers.  Consider today’s enterprise – it is filled with security tools most of whose underlying technology and principles are ten or more years old.  At high level there are two classes of attacks - external cyber attacks and insider threats. With cyber criminals to nation state attacks the threat landscape has dramatically changed and it is constantly evolving. The security breaches are undetected because lack of next-gen threat detection products and technologies. Enterprise customers are demanding next-generation solutions  for early breach threat detection, continuous, proactive threat monitoring, detection and prevention. The advent of new class of Cyber Attacks has increased the bar on the type of threat detection required to correlate indicators of compromise at large scale. These new security analytics need to take into account real-time and batch machine learning algorithms in a unique way to uncover the stealth characteristics of cyber attacks.

Profile

Karthik Kannan is a successful entrepreneur specializing in product management, marketing and sales. He is currently co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Caspida Inc., an enterprise security startup in the Bay Area. Prior to that, he was co-founder and VP of Products at Cetas, a Big Data analytics company, acquired by VMware in April 2012. The Cetas product line is now a part of Pivotal, a spinoff from EMC and VMware. Prior to Cetas, he was VP of Marketing and Business Development at Kazeon, a DLP and eDiscovery company, which was acquired by EMC in 2009. Karthik's background also includes leading product management at NetApp where he was responsible for setting product strategy for the information management, compliance and near-line storage areas. He also worked in Goldman Sachs in the technology arm of the Investment Banking Division, as well as has held several technology-consulting positions prior to that. Karthik holds an MS Degree in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana Tech University and an undergrad in Engineering Technology from BITS, Pilani (India). He blogs at http://karthikkannan001.blogspot.com/ and his Twitter handle is @KarthikBigData.