Star Mountain Capital’s Chief Technology Officer, John Polis will be speaking at Opal’s 2018 – Cyber Security Summit on Thursday, July 19th at 12:15 pm in Newport, Rhode Island. John’s panel, “Hackers and Threats” will explore the following topics:

• This is how you’ll be hacked- poor passwords, social engineering (phishing), missing patches, configuration errors)
• Why proactive security assessments are crucial- pen-testing, red teaming, code and web app reviews, etc.
• Bug bounties v penetration testing- when are you really ready for each?
• Building your security program- what does this look like and what you should not ignore

Other panelists include:

Jeff Moore, Global Head of Security, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research

Christie Terrill, Partner, Bishop Fox

Justin Herring, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey

Konstantine Sukherman, CEO, Cybri