Name: [Virtual] OPEN Session (CloudX): Hack The Cloud: Attackers Love Blind Spots, Break Their Hearts
Start: 2025-09-11T15:30:00-0700
End: 2025-09-11T15:55:00-0700

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT

VIRTUAL CloudX -- Main Stage

Brian Contos, Mitiga, Field CISO

Malicious actors, on an unholy crusade, have discovered that a lack of visibility across Cloud, SaaS, and Identity, combined with legacy controls that provide limited cloud detection and response capabilities, grants them a nefarious advantage. This lack of visibility, detection, and response in cloud environments allows malicious actors to operate with an elevated ability to breach organizations, evade detection, and maintain persistence.

As businesses transition to the cloud, critical assets, sensitive data, and an increasing array of interconnected SaaS applications have followed. This shift attracts malicious actors eager to exploit any visibility gaps, such as those caused by the segmentation of environments across workloads and SaaS. While such segmentation is a beneficial security best practice for incident prevention, it also provides a stealthy refuge for attackers. In essence, your SecOps team is operating within a landscape fraught with invisible threats.

This presentation will explore real-life stories from the trenches, drawn from years of cloud-based incident response. Various hacks will be explored to illustrate how breaches occur, what happens following a breach, and why organizations are struggling to detect and respond.

Finally, we will cover mitigation strategies such as proactively preparing for a breach, discovering malicious activity, and responding. Malicious actors are counting on your passivity, your blind spots, and your inability to effectively detect and respond to attacks in the cloud. Break their hearts!

Speakers

Brian Contos

Field CISO, Mitiga

With two IPOs & eight acquisitions, Brian has helped build some of the most successful security companies in the world. He has over 25 years in the security industry as a security company entrepreneur, board advisor, investor, and author. After getting his start with the Defense Information... Read More →

Thursday September 11, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks CloudX, OPEN Session, Security and Vulnerability Management (CloudX), IT Operations and Enterprise Management (CloudX), Virtual
In-Person/Virtual Virtual

API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025

Brian Contos

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