General Paul M. Nakasone to Deliver Opening Day Keynote at FireEye Cyber Defense Summit
Summary
General Nakasone is one of the world’s premier cyber security experts and has held command and staff positions across all levels of the Army with assignments in the United States, the Republic of Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. “We are honored to have General Nakasone give an opening day keynote at CDS,” said Kevin Mandia, CEO at FireEye. “This is a unique opportunity for our audience to gain insight from his decades of experience on the front lines of intelligence and cyber security, as well as his leadership in addressing the emerging threats confronting our nation today.” This year’s closing keynote will be delivered by former astronaut and retired U.S. Navy Captain, Scott Kelly. While science was at the core of Kelly’s expedition, his talk will focus on the life lessons and personal stories from over Earth that led him to embrace risk and teamwork, and how this applies to the high-stakes cyber space environment. The keynote mainstage will also offer talks from FireEye leaders: In addition to keynotes and general sessions on October 9 and 10, the Summit will feature more than 50 speakers in more than 30 sessions across three breakout tracks: More details on track sessions and topics is available at https://summit.fireeye.com/learn/tracks.html Eight security training courses will be held on October 7 and 8 focused on alert analysis, cyber intelligence foundations, cyber threat hunting, essentials of malware analysis, Helix™ threat analytics, investigations with endpoint security, network traffic analysis, and Windows enterprise incident response.