Krishnan, what role does Gigamon play in supporting the Black Hat network and Network Operations Center?
Gigamon is an essential element of the Black Hat Network. It provides active visibility into network traffic enabling advanced security and superior performance. It has simplified the overall Black Hat security architecture making performance monitoring and security tools perform better and making them more cost effective. Gigamon helps power the industry's leading threat detection tools inside the Black Hat Network using its GigSecure Security Delivery Platform (SDP) with deep traffic visibility/ intelligence / context via metadata improving the overall Security posture of the Black Hat Network. The SDP delivers advanced intelligence so that security, network and application performance management solutions in the Black Hat Network operate more efficiently and effectively. It has also allowed security tools to be patched and upgraded with zero downtime or impact on performance. It has also bridged the gap between the needs of the SecOps and NetOps teams helping to achieve conflicting goals of network availability and performance as well advanced security simultaneously.
Heather, how has Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company supported the Black Hat Network and Network Operations Center (NOC)?
When UBM needed reliable networking for their Black Hat conferences, they called Ruckus Networks. When people said, "You can't have an all-wireless deployment," Ruckus said, "Watch this." And built a SmartZone wireless infrastructure with 802.11ac access points connected to an ICX switching backbone that supports everything from registration, trainings, briefings, attendees Wi-Fi, and the Black Hat store's point of sale network. 100% wireless network access. 100% uptime and unparalleled performance.
Ruckus rises to the challenge of demanding networks like Black Hat to deliver the kind of connectivity people have come to depend on and to expect.
Percy, how has RSA supported the Black Hat Network and which RSA products are used in the Network Operations Center (NOC)??
As a proud Premium Partner, RSA provides the NetWitness Platform which enables in-depth visibility into logs, packets and endpoint events allowing the Black Hat NOC team to protect critical assets as well as ensure high availability of the network for all training, attendee's and event operations.
RSA SecurID Access provides Identity Access Management (IAM) to limit the ability of NOC engineers to access and/or modify critical systems. We look forward to experimenting with Orchestration and User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) in the near future.
At each conference we are able to detect and respond to the latest threats that come across the wire as taught by industry leading experts from around the world.
The Black Hat conferences allow me to build a team that is always excited for the task to defend, and an opportunity to learn the latest attack vectors.
The Black Hat NOC is staffed by some of the most capable practitioners in the business. The amount of knowledge and sharing within the NOC only adds to the value we receive as an organization in support of the Black Hat Conferences.
