Alex Walker | Counter Adversary Operations - Practice Lead (US Healthcare and East Enterprise)
CrowdStrike
Alex Walker - Practice Lead, Counter Adversary Operations - Eastern Seaboard, US Healthcare Alex Walker is responsible for representing Crowdstrike’s intelligence outcomes; communicating how Crowdstrike’s understanding of cross-domain adversary intrusions can be actioned to mitigate risk. Alex started his intelligence journey at the NSA, specializing in SIGINT collection related to The Global War on Terror (including tactical Support to Afghanistan), as well as Iran IRGC Qods Force and Russian Leadership. Alex was a foundational Sales Engineer and Geopolitical Specialist at Recorded Future for 7 years and joined Crowdstrike in late 2023. Alex lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, 3 year old son and two wonderful cats.
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Day 1 @ 14:00
Intelligence driven threat hunting of identity based attacks in 1st and 3rd party telemetry
CrowdStrike Falcon® Counter Adversary Operations, is at the front lines of disrupting the hands-on-keyboard attacks organizations face each day. Powered by AI-driven, intelligence-led threat hunting, Falcon Adversary OverWatch continuously uncovers sophisticated attacks across endpoints, identities, cloud environments, and third-party data sources, giving healthcare security teams the upper hand against even the most advanced adversaries.
The majority of advanced intrusions begin with adversaries logging in using compromised credentials, evading detection by point security solutions, escalating privilege and maintaining persistence, using tools already available in the environment. Learn how CrowdStrike hunts across the identity plane, combined additional insights from sensor telemetry and third party data sources to fulfill the mission to Stop Breaches and apply crowd sourced intelligence for proactive defense.
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