Cloud Security Alliance – Anatomy of a Cyber Attack with Dan Farrell

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The night of January 16th was a wake-up call for Alex Funkhouser – President of Sherlock Tech and President of the Cloud Security Alliance, South Florida Chapter – as he began to receive calls telling him that his company web site and email service was down.

“I found out how easy it is to bring down a company. All of our internet communication and presence was disrupted”, remarked Mr. Funkhouser. “I have heard of major banks losing their web sites due to an attack, but I didn’t think it would happen to us”.

Hear the perspective of Dan Ferrell, Director of Network Operations at Applied Innovations, South Florida’s premier cloud provider, offering SaaS and cloud based services since 1999 – before it was called ‘Cloud’, Mauricio Angée, CISSP, VP Information Security Manager at Mercantile CommerceBank, a cloud ‘consumer’and Michael Scheidell, CISO of Security Privateers, former CTO of SECNAP Network Security, Internet Security and Privacy expert discuss the how’s, what’s, where’s and why’s of protecting your company and brand from the simple types of attacks that can disrupt business and cost your company money.

The Cloud Security Alliance is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

Panel discussion:
Anatomy of a Cyber Attack

Panelists:
Mauricio Angee, CISO, Mercantile Bank
Dan Farrell, VP, Applied Innovations
Michael Scheidell, President,Security Privateers

Panel Moderator:
Alex Funkhouser, President, SherlockTech Staffing

Location: Knight Hall Auditorium, Room 1124 ( Carl DeSantis Building )

Michael Scheidell, Security Privateers

Mauricio Angee, Mercantile Commercebank

Dan Farrell, Applied Innovations

Moderator: Alex Funkhouser, SherlockTech Staffing

Applied Innovations is a Microsoft Gold Partnered web-hosting provider specializing in E-commerce solutions and hosted virtual servers. Dan is responsible for all network, data center, and security operations related to the Applied Innovations hosting network.

SherlockTech Staffing
InfraGard
Nova Southeastern Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences

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