About SOC Analyst Appreciation Day™
SOC analysts are too often overworked and underappreciated, leading to burnout and turnover.
Devo established SOC Analyst Appreciation Day™ to pay some long-overdue kudos to SOC analysts and to encourage organizations to improve their job satisfaction and mental well-being.
The third annual SOC Analyst Appreciation Day will take place on October 18 — stay tuned for this year's agenda. In the meantime, you can re-watch all of the sessions on-demand below.
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Join Liz Padula and Natalie Greene, Certified Yoga Instructors from Artemis Yoga, for a reset and decompression session that you can do right at your desk. You’ll walk away standing taller, thinking more clearly and feeling like you were whisked away on a retreat!
Desk Decompression and Reset
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Are you ready to become a SOC star? In this panel, winners from the 2021 SOC Analyst Appreciation Day Awards program and SOC leaders will come together to share their insights on becoming top-performing SOC analysts. They will explain how they keep their SOCs running efficiently, continuously learn new skills and knowledge about the cyberthreat landscape, and encourage knowledge sharing within their teams.
Josh Copeland, Security Director at AT&T, will moderate the panel. Panelists include:
Becoming a SOC Star
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We’ve all heard about the cybersecurity skills shortage and talent gap. So, how
can we get more individuals to enter the field? In this session, cybersecurity professionals who took an “untraditional” path into cybersecurity will share their unique journeys. Cybersecurity leaders and hiring managers who actively practice diverse hiring methods will also share how they evaluate candidates who may not have “traditional” experience.
David Bittner, CyberWire host, and Kayla Williams, CISO of Devo, will co-moderate this panel. Panelists include:
Untraditional Paths into Cyber
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Being neurodiverse can be a superpower for individuals working in cybersecurity. In this panel, neurodiverse cybersecurity professionals will come together to share their experiences, explain how being neurodiverse accelerated their career growth, and the challenges they faced along the way. Neurodiverse attendees will learn how to maximize their innate skills and approaches to problem-solving, while neurotypical attendees can learn how to best work and collaborate with neurodiverse teammates.
Carraig Stanwyck, CISO of Avnet, will moderate this panel. Panel participants include:
Being Neurodiverse in Cyber
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This session is a special edition of Paul’s Security Weekly hosted by Paul Asadoorian. He will be joined by Chris Crowley, SOC-Class Course Author, SANS Senior Instructor, and Consultant at Montance® LLC, to discuss SOC training and development best practices, including insights from the SANS annual SOC survey. He will also interview Michael Meis, Associate CISO at the University of Kansas Health System, to discuss how the history of warfare has influenced modern-day cybercrime and how cyber leaders can shift to a victory mindset.
Paul’s Security Weekly
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The SOC is changing. Cybersecurity teams are investing in AI-driven security technologies and planning to outsource many of the Tier-1 and Tier-2 analyst responsibilities to combat talent shortages—enabling in-house teams to become much more focused on threat intelligence. In this panel, SOC professionals from MSSPs and in-house teams will come together to discuss dividing and conquering responsibilities to keep organizations secure.
Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli of ITSPmagazine will co-moderate this panel. Participants include:
The Hybrid SOC
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El sector de la ciberseguridad lleva mucho tiempo luchando contra la escasez de personal cualificado, ya que muchos líderes de los SOC han encontrado cada vez más dificultades para encontrar y retener candidatos. Sin embargo, ¿hemos agotado realmente todas nuestras opciones? En el sector de la ciberseguridad hay espacio para ampliar el grupo de candidatos recurriendo a personas de orígenes menos convencionales y más diversos.
Esta mesa redonda explorará las habilidades, el pensamiento neurodivergente asi como las competencias "no tradicionales" que pueden dar lugar a trayectorias profesionales en ciberseguridad y cómo aprender y crecer una vez que se ha iniciado la carrera professional. Este panel será presentado y moderado por Enrique Serrano Aparicio, Director General de Hackrocks. Entre los participantes se encuentran:
Caminos no tradicionales hacia el ciberespacio
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The cybersecurity industry has long grappled with a skills shortage, as many SOC leaders have found it increasingly difficult to find and retain candidates. But have we exhausted all our options? There’s room in the cybersecurity industry to expand the candidate pool by tapping into individuals from less conventional and more diverse backgrounds.
This panel discussion will explore skills, neurodivergent thinking, and "untraditional" experiences that may translate well into cybersecurity career paths and how to learn and grow once you've started your career. Madeline Carr, Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity at University College London, will moderate this panel.
Other participants include:
Untraditional Paths into Cyber
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A career in the SOC can be an exciting one for anyone in the cybersecurity field. In this panel, we’re looking to not only celebrate those working in the SOC but will also explore job opportunities for aspiring analysts and managers, share pathways to success, and develop ideas to further your career in the SOC.
To help us with this, we’ve gathered some of Asia Pacific’s most preeminent cybersecurity leaders to share their highly sought-after insights. You don’t want to miss out on this!
This panel will be moderated by David Fairman, CISO and CSO of Netskope. Participants include:
Managing and Growing Your Career in the SOC
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Amber Fleet, IT Consultant, InfoSyS Consulting
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Deidre Diamond, CEO and Co-founder, CyberSN
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Jennifer Reed, Security Leader
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Kassandra Pierre, President, WiCyS Neurodiversity Affiliate
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Nathan Chung, Cloud Security Engineer and Host of the NeuroSec Podcast
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Amy Detzel, Lead Security Engineer, Billtrust
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Sadie Gauthier, SROC Engineer, SANS Institute
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Jennifer Kendall, Principal Cybersecurity Engineer, Forter
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Billy Kajos, Senior Security Analyst, FanDuel
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Mark Willis, SOC Operations Manager, AT&T
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Natalie Page, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, Talion
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Vincent Laurens, Vice-President, Global Security Strategist, Devo
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José Luis Bedmar Jurado, SOC Manager en Cyberproof España, UST España & Latam
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Marta Barrio Marcos, Ingeniero de la Seguridad de Aplicaciones, Oracle Netsuite
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María Luisa Redondo Velázquez, Directora de Operaciones de Seguridad, Devo
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Rob Smith, Executive, Cyber Security, NAB
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Frank Santucci, Co-Founder and CTO of ParaFlare
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Catherine Buhler, CISO of EnergyAustralia
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Jay Jay Davey, SOC Client Lead, Bridewell
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Sunday Oludare Ogunlana, Security Incident Management Team, Citi
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Yolanda Craig, Director, Business Strategy and Development, IC at Raytheon BBN
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LeAnn Cary, Senior Director - Advanced Fusion Center Practice Leader, Optiv
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And others that will be announced soon!
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Frank Santucci, Co-Founder and CTO of ParaFlare
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Catherine Buhler, CISO of EnergyAustralia
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The SOC is changing. Cybersecurity teams are investing in AI-driven security technologies and planning to outsource many of the Tier-1 and Tier-2 analyst responsibilities to combat talent shortages—enabling in-house teams to become much more focused on threat intelligence. In this panel, SOC professionals from MSSPs and in-house teams will come together to discuss dividing and conquering responsibilities to keep organizations secure.
Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli of ITSPmagazine will co-moderate this panel. Participants include:
The Hybrid SOC
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Jay Jay Davey, SOC Client Lead, Bridewell
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Natalie Page, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, Talion
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Samara Williams, Manager, Information Security and Risk, Cardinal Health
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Joyce Ngo, Executive Manager, Cyber Security Operations
and Defense, the Hong Kong Jockey Club
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