Topic: Sophisticated Spear Phishing
96% of attacks start with an Email. This session, Neela will focus on understanding the types of attacks you are likely receiving and the various ways you can protect your organization. A specific area of focus will be the rise in sophisticated Spear Phishing and the way we now have to rely on Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence to stay ahead of the hackers.
Speaker: Neela Jacques
Neela Jacques joined Barracuda Networks in 2018, bringing more than 20 years’ experience of bringing innovative enterprise software products to market. Neela has global responsibility for all aspects of Go-to-Market for Barracuda’s complete portfolio of award-winning, cloud enabled security products. Prior to Barracuda, Neela was Executive Director of the OpenDaylight project and VP at the Linux Foundation. There, Neela led a community of thousands of developers around the world to drive innovations in SDN and NFV with a developer-driven open source platform. He oversaw and provided guidance for all aspects of the project, from governance and technology to community and marketing. Prior to that, Neela was part of the core VMware team that took virtualization from a niche development and testing product to ubiquitous use. He developed and took to market the company’s Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) vision and strategy. Neela also founded and launched VMware’s first cloud computing initiative in 2007.