Cyber Threat Intelligence – Buzzword or Real Thing?
In recent months, the term Cyber Threat Intelligence has attracted a lot of attention. While it is often just used as a buzzword, experts are certain that it is a crucial element in cyber defence. In this talk, we present our understanding of Cyber Threat Intelligence and discuss how Cyber Intelligence works. Finally, we discuss how an organisation can make use of Cyber Threat Intelligence to enhance its cyber defences.
About the speaker
Yaron Blachman
Yaron Leads PwC Israel’s Security and Forensics line of services.
He founded PwC’s Cyber Center of Excellence and has an overall responsibility on its global operations.
The PwC’s Cyber Center of Excellence develops tools and methodologies to assist organisations in combating today’s cyber threats and cyber challenges.
Yaron started working with the PwC security consulting group in 2002 where he has been providing security consulting services to the Fortune 500 clients.
Yaron has a great deal of experience in the financial sector, working with major banks and insurance companies - globally and in Israel.
During 2006-2008, Yaron was on secondment to PwC’s California offices at San Francisco & San-Jose.
During this period, he provided technology and information security advisory services to local Silicon Valley and San Francisco-based clients such as Microsoft, Google, Visa, Levi’s, eBay, Meryl-Lynch, CISCO and others.
Prior to working with PwC, Yaron has been working as an IT consultant with Paragon Consulting (Israel) and has been a captain in the Israeli Air-Force, managing large-scale IT software projects.
Yaron is an electrical and computer engineer (Ben-Gurion University) and is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) since 2002.
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