A Visual Summary of SANS Threat Hunting Summit 2021

On October 7 and 8, thousands from around the globe tuned in for the SANS Threat Hunting Summit. Industry’s top practitioners and leading experts from near and far shared their latest techniques that can be used to successfully identify, contain, and eliminate adversaries targeting networks. It was a great opportunity for cybersecurity professionals and those new to the field.

We invited Ashton Rodenhiser of Mind's Eye Creative to create graphic recordings of our Summit presentations. If you missed a talk or are looking to view the SANS Threat Hunting Summit through a visual lens, take a look at the recordings below.

In addition to graphic recordings, PDFs of Summit presentations are available on the SANS Summit Archives page (SANS account required) and videos will be posted to YouTube over the next several months.

*If you registered for the Summit, video recordings are available on your Summit Access page in your SANS Portal.

Day 1

Keynote: Threat Hunting: Old Data, New Tricks! David Hoelzer, Fellow, SANS Institute

Full-Circle Detection: From Hunting to Actionable Detection Mathieu Saulnier, Technical Director Advanced Security, Syntax

Practical Threat Hunting With Machine Learning Craig Chamberlain, Head of Detection Science, Elastic

I Knew You Were Trouble – Detecting Threat Actors Before They Deploy Ransomware Kirstie Failey, Senior Incident Response Consultant, Mandiant

Open Threat Research – The Hunt for Red Apples: How to Threat Hunt and Emulate Ocean Lotus on MacOS Carlos R, Threat Hunting Operations Lead, Yahoo Ben Bornholm, DART Engineer, Dropbox

Day 2

Keynote Identifying Opportunities to Collaborate and Contribute Back! Roberto Rodriguez, Principal Threat Researcher, Microsoft

Stay Ahead of the Game: Automate Your Threat Hunting Workflows Christopher Van Der Made, Security Developer Advocate, Cisco Systems Inc.

Building Better Hunt Data Josh Liburdi, Senior Security Engineer, Brex

Hunting Beacon Activity with Fourier Transforms Joe Petroske, Cyber Threat Hunter, Target

Hunting and Scoping A Ransomware Attack Andrew Skatoff, Cyber Security Senior Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Wrap-Up Panel:

Moderators: David Bianco, Instructor, SANS Institute Mari DeGrazia, Certified Instructor, SANS Institute

Panelists: 2021 Threat Hunting Summit Speakers

If you’re interested in seeing other in-person and free virtual events SANS has lined up, visit the current listing.