| DATE: | December 12th, 2025 (PLEASE NOTE: this has been rescheduled for December) |
| TIME: | 2:00pm to 4:00pm (PST) |
| VENUE: | Hybrid Zoom Online meeting & In-Person at Sophos Inc. (Map) |
| TOPIC: | Taming the Hacker Storm: A Way to Defeat Cybercriminals and Malware |
| PRESENTERS: | Roger A. Grimes (Presenting virtually/remote) |
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ABSTRACT
Malicious hackers and their malware creations are rampant on the Internet. Ransomware is taking down companies, hospitals, and even entire cities at will. Hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen, and millions of people’s accounts are stolen every day. A large portion of the Internet is just hacker traffic, phishing, and their malware programs. However, most people are unaware that we can significantly reduce Internet crime, making it nearly impossible for hackers and their malware creations to be successful. There is a way to make a far safer Internet for you, your children, your grandchildren, and your grandparents. We have most of the needed technology, we just need to make it more pervasive.
Attend this session to learn about:
The ONE BIG UNDERLYING COMPUTER SECURITY PROBLEM that underlies all other problems
How fixing that one problem will make the Internet a far safer place for the world to compute
Hear about the cool new Internet DNS-like service that will make it far harder for hackers to hide
Come learn what it would take and how you can help to one day make hackers and their malware creations something future generations learn about in history books
If you’re just tired about hiring about the problem, come learn how to SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
BIOGRAPHY
Roger A. Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist for KnowBe4, Inc., is a 36-year computer security consultant, instructor, holder of dozens of computer certifications, and author of 15 books and over 1,500 articles on computer security. He has spoken at many of the world’s biggest computer security conferences, been in Newsweek™ magazine, appeared on television, been interviewed for NPR’s All Things Considered™, the Wall Street Journal, and been a guest on dozens of radio shows and podcasts. He has worked at some of the world’s largest computer security companies, including Foundstone, McAfee, and Microsoft. He has consulted for hundreds of companies, from the largest to the smallest, around the world. He specializes in host and network security, quantum security, identity management, anti-malware, hackers, honeypots, Public Key Infrastructure, cloud security, cryptography, policy, and technical writing. His certifications have included CPA, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CEH, MSCE: Security, Security+, and yada-yada others, and he has been an instructor for many of them. His writings and presentations are often known for their real-world, contrarian views. He was the weekly security columnist for InfoWorld and CSO magazines between 2005 – 2019.