Boston BSides - Andrew Hay - Facilitating Fluffy Forensics
Channel: BSides Boston
Date: 2016-07-20

Cloud computing enables the rapid deployment of servers and applications, dynamic scalability of system resources, and helps businesses get products to market faster than ever before. Most organizations are aware of the benefits of adopting cloud architectures and many are becoming aware of the potential security risks. The majority of organizations, however, don’t realize the numerous challenges of conducting incident response (IR) activities and forensic investigations across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

It’s not all doom and gloom, however. The consumption model of cloud architectures actually lends itself to helping investigators conduct forensic and IR exercises faster and more efficiently than on a single workstation. For this to happen, however, the tools and techniques employed must evolve.

In this session, DataGravity CISO Andrew Hay will revisit the forensic and IR challenges of investigating servers and applications in cloud environments in addition to the opportunities that cloud presents to help expedite forensic investigations.

Andrew Hay is the CISO at DataGravity where he advocates for the company’s total information security needs and is responsible for the development and delivery of the company’s comprehensive information security strategy. Prior to that, he was the Director of Research at OpenDNS (acquired by Cisco) and was the Director of Applied Security Research and Chief Evangelist at CloudPassage, Inc.