Yassin Watlal

Yassin Watlal

Director, System Engineering META

CrowdStrike

company overview

SETTING THE NEW STANDARD
FOR SECURITY IN THE CLOUD ERA

CrowdStrike is a leading cybersecurity company protecting customers from all cyber threats by leveraging its Security Cloud to stop breaches. From its inception in 2011, driven by George Kurtz’s vision, CrowdStrike was created as a different kind of cybersecurity company.

Cloud-native, CrowdStrike immediately brought a threat perspective, effectiveness, scalability, and flexibility never seen before in the industry – seamlessly aligning People, Technology, and Processes.

The CrowdStrike Falcon platform has revolutionized enterprise security for the cloud era. Its single lightweight-agent architecture leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and offers real-time protection and visibility across the enterprise, preventing attacks on endpoints and workloads on or off the network.

Biography

Yassin is an influential and highly motivated cybersecurity leader, with 16 years of professional experience in cybersecurity. During this time he has served as a Consulting System engineer and System Engineering Manager for various security organizations including FireEye, McAfee, Websense and Attivo Networks. His areas of expertise cover endpoint security, network security, information security policy, incident response & malware analysis. In his current role as System Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike, Yassin works as a trusted advisor for organizations in the META region, assisting them to lower and manage cyber security riskusing CrowdStrike Products and Services.

Speech Topic & Synopses
ENSURING BUSINESS CONTINUITY BY SECURING YOUR REMOTE WORKFORCE
The traditional on-premises security perimeter has dissolved, and legacy security stacks are unable to secure a remote workforce and cloud-hosted applications. Today, the internet is the new corporate network. How are you making sure that IT administrators have the proper visibility into user activity and can minimize attack surfaces in this cloud-first world? How do you provide users with an optimal experience without the struggle of a traditional VPN approach? How do you scale your security services and detect advanced threats more effectively?Join Yassin Watlal Director of System Engineering META, as he offers insight into how CrowdStrike Falcon Host Platform have addressed these issues and help companies transform their security stacks.
In this session, you will learn:
  1. How the Falcon Host Platform is able to respond to incidents from anywhere and at any time
  2. How the team gains visibility into endpoints and is able to contain systems outside the corporate network
  3. How you can recover your environment from advanced threats and attacks and establish a maximized security posture