Zero Trust Hackathon Enablement Session

5 Oct 2021, IBM Pune lab hackathon

The objective of this talk is to explain the Zero Trust principles, frameworks defined by Forrester, CARTA and NIST, Google's Beyond Corp and the need to embrace Zero Trust based security posture.

In this session, Narayana described Zero Trust ideas and showed details about a zero trust hackathon entry his team submitted in a previous hackathon to enable pariticipants of the Pune Lab Hackathon.

GSkit V9 Technical Overview

1 Oct 2021, IBM Brownbag

The objective of this talk is to explain the latest features introduced in GSKit v9 release

In this session, Narayana, Michael and Leigh walk through the cool new features in an upcominng releasse.

Federating your security data searches with STIX-shifter

15-17th Nov 2021 & 16-19th Mar 2021

Australian CyberConference, AISA

With thousands of cybersecurity vendors in the market, enterprises have a huge amount of choices in solutions to acquire to meet their growing security needs. The multitude of tools a single organisation now deploys, searches and integrates in order to maintain a secure environment is quickly getting out of control. The Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA) is building an open ecosystem for cybersecurity products to interoperate using projects like STIX-shifter.

In this session, Narayana and Dale Bowie dive into open standards based cybersecurity. Participants will learn about STIX shifter open source project and methods to search multiple disparate data lakes with a unified query and response language. Participants will also learn about the steps involved in developing custom integrations for their own data sources.

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How patenting became a second nature of our master inventor?

29th Apr 2021, IBM APAC Podcast

In this podcast, Narayana was interviewed by Rajesh Mehta about his journey to becoming a master inventory, favorite patents, intricacies of patenting and advice for new and junior inventors.

IBM Security Strategy and Cloud Pak 4 security (CP4S)

4 Dec 2020, IBM Brownbag

The objective of this talk is to explain the rationale around IBM Security's strategy and how Cloud Pak 4 Security helps modernise security in a hybrid cloud ecosystem.

In this session, Narayana describes IBM's security strategy and educate the audience on the features of CP4S platform instance and how to leverage the feature in the lab hackathon. Participants will learn about the available resources, background, and objectives of the hackathon

An Open standards approach to Cyber Security

20-22 Nov 2020, Digital Defense Hackathon by HackMakers

The objective of this workshop is to educate the participants of digital defence hackathon about available open security standards and IBM Security APIs.

In this workshop, Narayana and Chris Hockings discuss about open standards approach to security, STIX language to share Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), IBM XForce Exchange threat feed for threat hunting and IBM Security Verify for digital trust and identity APIs.

Preparing TLS for a Quantum World

22 Oct 2020, IBM Regional Technical Exchange

Quantum computers exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical problems that are difficult for conventional computers. Large scale quantum computers if built can pose a threat to existing public key crypto-systems. Post Quantum Cryptographic (PQC) algorithms are thought to be resilient to attacks using Quantum computers.

In this session, Narayana & Michael Gray walk you through the experiments around leveraging PQC algorithms in TLS 1.3 protocol Attendees will learn about how IBM is experimenting with PQC algorithms in Transport Layer Security protocols (TLS 1.3).

Encryption - Hacker's Enemy or Ally?

15 Oct 2020, IBM Regional Technical Exchange

Once a topic only discussed by security professionals, encryption is now becoming a subject of public discourse as citizens become more aware of the key role it plays in preserving their privacy. As security practitioners work to improve the strength and performance of encryption algorithms, hackers using these same improvements to shield their own actions from spying eyes.

In this session, Narayana, Dale Bowie and Matt Green discuss abouts recent advances in encryption, how hackers are exploiting this, and the techniques being used by security analysts to protect against these threats.

Can advances in security protocols offer safer and better user experience?

15 Oct 2020, IBM Regional Technical Exchange

TLS protocols provide a way for two parties to communicate securely designed in a way to prevent eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery. TLS 1.3 is the latest version of transport security protocol that is simpler, secure and more efficient than its predecessors. Companies like Netflix are adopting TLS 1.3 to bring safer and faster streaming experiences to the living room. Do advances in security protocol always imply improved performance? Are there any drawbacks?

In this session, Narayana and Michael Gray walk you through the key features, benefits and challenges of TLS 1.3 protocol. Attendees will learn about latest advances in security protocols, and understand why TLS1.3 should be adopted to improve the security and performance of software products.

Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX)

25 Sep 2020, IBM Brownbag

Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX™) is a language and serialization format used to exchange cyber threat intelligence (CTI)

In this session, Narayana walks you through the language and specification that organisations use to collaborate and share cyber threat intelligence (CTI) collected from a multitude of disparate tools from multiple vendors. Attendees will learn about the various threat intelligence terminology, domain objects, relationships, cyber observables and visualisations.

Govhack My City and Hackathon tips

5 Nov 2019, IBM Brownbag

GovHack is an yearly hackathon focussed on open data sets.

In this session, Narayana walks through the solution that was presented at govhack, tips and techniques around hackathon, how to participate and details about upcoming hackathons.