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Coming to a city near you!
Join Farsight and DomainTools for a hands-on Masterclass experience.
5/20
New York, NY
7/22
Chicago, IL
9/23
Dallas, TX
10/21
Washington, D.C.
11/4
Seattle, WA
Course description
23,063
In 2019, employees reported an average of 23,063 phishing incidents to their Security Operations Center.
93%
93% of confirmed data breaches involve phishing by luring users with malicious attachments or email links.
Join Farsight CTO, Ben April, and DomainTools’ Sales Engineer, Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, as they discuss how to outmaneuver phishing campaigns using passiveDNS data. Starting with a single IOC (indicator of compromise), they will step through how to pivot through domain infrastructure to build intelligence of associated malicious activity.
In this masterclass you will learn
01
How passiveDNS can uncover cybercrime forensics data
02
How to take an IOC and pivot on supporting threat intelligence
03
When to leverage DomainTools and Farsight to build an investigation
Agenda
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Breakfast provided
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Session 1: Getting Started with passiveDNS
11:00-11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Session 2: Outmaneuvering Phishing Campaigns
Attendees are required to bring their own laptop to use for the workshop. For the workshop, attendees will be given a free DNSDB API Key, which they can use up to 30 days in their own environment. To use the Key, attendees should come to class with DNSDB ScoutTM for Google Chrome Extension or Mozilla Firefox downloaded on their computer.
Speakers
Ben April
Ben April is the Chief Technology Officer at Farsight Security, Inc. Prior to joining Farsight, Mr. April spent eight years at Trend Micro, where he became the Americas regional manager of the forward-looking threat research team. He has presented to security conferences on five continents, covering topics like Bitcoin, NFC, operational security and infrastructure security. Mr. April has built research systems for collecting and aggregating data, from Whois and the Bitcoin block-chain to the global routing table.
His current crusade is to eliminate the technical and policy barriers that impede data-sharing among white-hat security researchers. Mr. April is also a volunteer sysadmin and coder for some trusted-community security projects.
Taylor Wilkes-Pierce
Taylor Wilkes-Pierce, Sales Engineer at DomainTools has over 10 years of experience in technology sales with stops at Verizon, Amazon, and Virtuozzo along the way to DomainTools. When he isn’t helping customers leverage domain based intelligence to defend their networks
he can be found stuck in traffic somewhere in Seattle.
Seating is limited – first-come, first-serve
