Addressing Tech Sprawl: A Guide to Modernizing Cyber Defense
About Event
Most security programs did not get designed. They accumulated. A tool for this, a platform for that, a point solution bought to close a gap three years ago that nobody has revisited since. The result is tech sprawl: an architecture that is expensive, hard to operate, and increasingly unfit for the threats coming next.
In this free lightning lesson, Jess Huber draws on 25 years of incident response and security operations leadership to show how to break that cycle.
You will look at why most current security architectures fail on both effectiveness and efficiency, how XDR acts as the lynchpin for transforming a SecOps program, and what a modern, AI-powered security reference architecture actually looks like in practice.
Who this is for:
Security leaders and managers who want to reduce reliance on a disjointed stack of point solutions
SOC analysts, detection engineers, and incident responders who want to understand where SecOps is heading
IT and architecture teams preparing their security program for the demands of AI-era threats
What you will learn:
Why most current security architectures are neither effective nor efficient
How to align people into a fully capable investigative unit
Why XDR is the lynchpin for starting the digital transformation of a SecOps program
How to dissect a security reference architecture powered by AI
A program roadmap for getting from where you are to where you need to be
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Jess Huber, Managing Principal of Unified SecOps LLC and Technical Distinguished Principal at GM Financial, brings more than 25 years in cybersecurity across incident response, security operations, and executive-level cyber strategy. He founded Microsoft Premier Field Engineering Scarce Skills Security team and was a co-founding member of the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DaRT), helping establish one of the most recognized incident response capabilities in the industry. He went on to serve as Global Head of Cyber Incident Response at Deloitte, leading large-scale investigations and driving the transformation of global cyber defense operations.
Jess provides vCISO services to organizations maturing their security posture, and brings deep expertise in Microsoft 365 security, threat detection, and incident response. His approach is proactive and educational, running cyber wargames for executive teams and IT organizations to prepare them for real-world crises.