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Anti-Cast | Learning from Macedonia: How InfoSec Fails Spawn from Sales & Marketing w/ John Strand and Kevin Johnson
April 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Examine the pitfalls in information security (infosec) marketing and sales, with John Strand and Kevin Johnson
Join us for a free one-hour Antisyphon Anti-cast, with John Strand and Kevin Johnson. Learn how exaggeration undermines trust and efficiency. Using Alexander the Great’s empire as an analogy, we highlight how overselling creates unrealistic expectations while critical vulnerabilities remain masked by marketing.
- Empower yourselves with skills to challenge deceptive claims.
- Learn how to critically evaluate infosec products and assertively address issues.
- Together, we can promote honesty in the industry and fend off the snake oil.
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John Strand has consulted and taught thousands of classes and hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and penetration testing. He is a coveted speaker and much-loved former SANS instructor and course author. John is a contributor to the industry shaping Penetration Testing Execution Standard and 20 Critical Security Controls frameworks.
In 2008, John founded Black Hills Information Security (BHIS), a pentesting company that strives to understand its clients from a holistic perspective, emphasizing collaboration and education over stunt hacking. Since then, BHIS has grown to become a “tribe of companies” that includes Antisyphon Infosec Training, Active Countermeasures (ACM), Wild West Hackin’ Fest (WWHF), and more!
Kevin Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of Secure Ideas. Kevin has a long history in the IT field including system administration, network architecture and application development. He has been involved in building incident response and forensic teams, architecting security solutions for large enterprises, and penetration testing everything from government agencies to Fortune 100 companies. In addition, Kevin is a faculty member at IANS and was an instructor and author for the SANS Institute.