F5: Bots to Boardroom – Understanding the Impact of Bots on Retail’s Bottomline 

Automated attacks continue to present serious risks for retailers. The ROI (return on investment) for criminals is becoming increasingly attractive. It is important to understand the economics of today’s most prevalent threats and their impact on your organization’s bottom line.  Effective bot management now means managing business risks, managing costs, and communicating the security team’s value to executives – all while providing a great customer experience.

Attend this session to learn:

•  How attackers can calculate their potential rate of return, as well as what factors make a potential payoff attractive.
• Why understanding the ladder of attacker economics is key to successfully defending your applications.
• How attackers exploit application logic and the law of large numbers to launch a staggering number of attacks leading to account takeover (ATO) fraud.
•   How bots are impacting your analytics decision making, application availability, infrastructure costs, brand reputation, and other aspects.
• Why bot management has become a boardroom conversation – learn how to use key quantitative and qualitative metrics to communicate the security team’s value to executive

Speaker:

Josh Goldfarb, Security and Fraud Architect – F5

Josh (Twitter: @ananalytical) is currently Security and Fraud Architect at F5. Previously, Josh served as VP, CTO – Emerging Technologies at FireEye and as Chief Security Officer for nPulse Technologies until its acquisition by FireEye. Prior to joining nPulse, Josh worked as an independent consultant, applying his analytical methodology to help enterprises build and enhance their network traffic analysis, security operations, and incident response capabilities to improve their information security postures. He has consulted and advised numerous clients in both the public and private sectors at strategic and tactical levels. Earlier in his career, Josh served as the Chief of Analysis for the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) where he built from the ground up and subsequently ran the network, endpoint, and malware analysis/forensics capabilities for US-CERT. In addition to Josh’s blogging and public speaking appearances, he is also a regular contributor to DarkReading and SecurityWeek.