Author Archives: Art Ocain

I am excited about an upcoming webinar on September 26, 2024 with UnderDefense’s Dmytro Shevtsov to discuss ransomware, immutable backups, and resilience. Here’s a link to the webinar: https://www.linkedin.com/events/whenransomwarestrikes-turningim7237895078994735104/theater/

I collaborated in a webinar with Adlumin’s Mark Sangster called “Assume Breach: Proactive Strategies for Cyber Resilience” where we discussed patching and Active Directory hardening, giving a specific hardening playbook for most organizations. Link to the webinar on BrightTALK https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/19561/622538?bt_tok=%7B%7Bcontact.BT_fastpass_token%7D%7D&utm_source=technology_partner&utm_medium=airiam&utm_campaign=resources&utm_term=q3_24_september_airiam&utm_content=webinar

Cyngular Security is having me speak on cloud incident response with Cyngular’s Paul Moskovich in a panel-style discussion. Cloud IR creates different problems (and solutions) from on-prem IR. Check out the event: https://www.linkedin.com/events/cloudchaos-whyyourincidentreadi7234571072405131264/

I was interviewed by Chris Groot at EMPOWER about Cove and our use of backups for our clients’ servers and 365 environments.

I’ll be speaking at the NMFTA Cybersecurity Conference in Cleveland October 27-29, 2024. I’ll be running tabletop exercises for the masses. Check it out: https://info.nmfta.org/cybersecurity-conference-2024 Come check it out! -Art #NMFTA #NMFTACYBER #ArtOcain

Jaye Tillson and John Spiegel from HPE/Aruba interviewed me for the SSE Forum “The Edge” podcast on the floor at BlackHat. I love these guys!

Had a great webinar on DevSecOps with UnderDefense.

NMFTA reached out to me to speak on their panel at Home Delivery World in Philadelphia on June 6th, 2024 in their cyber panel on “Securing Your Digital Supply Chain.” I’m honored to be asked to be at this event to speak and share my experiences on this panel.

My talk was accepted for BSides Harrisburg on April 12. Hope to see you there! Buy tickets! https://www.bsideshbg.com/

Here’s my talk from BSides Philly 2023. A swift, well-coordinated incident response can spell the difference between a minor hiccup and a full-blown crisis. Harnessing the power of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tools, we’ll take you on a journey of assembling a potent incident response stack. Through real-world experiments and research, we will dive deep into theContinue reading “Stacked and Hacked: Crafting the Ultimate COTS Incident Response Arsenal”