 Hello everyone, welcome to this special Cube conversation here in our studios in Palo Alto, California. I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media and co-host of the Cube, with a special preview of CyberConnect 2017, a global security conference presented by Centrified's an industry independent event. I'm here with the CEO and founder of Centrified, Tom Camp. Tom, thanks for joining me on this preview of CyberConnect 2017. It's great to be here again. So you guys obviously as a company no longer started clearly clearing the runway on growth. Congratulations on success. This event will be broadcasting live on the Cube as folks should know on the site. CyberConnect 2017 is a different kind of event. It's really the first of its kind where it's an industry gathering, not just a black hat. I mean, RSA's got a black hat and they try to weave a little business of, this is all about leadership in the industry. Is that right? Yeah, absolutely. No, there's really a dearth of business-focused discussions with C-level people discussing the issues around security. And so what we found was, was that most of the conversations were about the hackers, the methodology of going in and hacking in. And that doesn't really help the business people. They have to understand, what are the higher level strategies that should be deployed to make their organizations more secure? So we kind of wanted to up level the conversation regarding security. And help C-level people, board people, figure out what they should be doing. And we've obviously been reporting on SiliconANGLE, obviously the latest and greatest on hacks. You know, you've seen everything from cyber threats, from real hacking, to nuanced things like the rushing dissidents campaigns on Facebook around voter impressions. And we saw that in the hearings in the Senate where Facebook got really grilled by, is it a real threat? No, but there is a threat in the sense that they're putting opinion shaping. So there's a broad range of business issues. Some are highly nuanced, some are very specific business value. You're out of business or you get hacked. So how do you see that? Because is that the discussion point? Is it more policy, all the above? What is the overall conversations going to be like at CyberConnect 2017? Yeah, I think it's, I mean, look, the reality is, is that breaches before were about potentially stealing your data, but now it's an impact on your brand. Like, what if the Russians were doing that to Pepsi or Coca-Cola, et cetera? I mean, they could just completely set up a lot of negative sentiment about you. So there's a lot of different ways to impact organizations as well. And so what we're doing at CyberConnect is putting forth CIOs of Etna, US Bank, and having them describe what they do. I mean, think about like, you know, a major healthcare company, Etna, US Bank, the list goes on, you know, Blue Cross, Blue Shield. So we're talking to, and we're having the major CISOs of these large organizations tell their peers what they're doing to protect their company, their brands, et cetera. Well, I want to get back to the business and impact in a second, but some notable keynotes here. Securing a nation amid change, a roadmap to freedom from retired general Keith Alexander, former director of the NSA and chief of the US Cyber Command. Why is he there? What's the focus for his talk? Well, you can't ignore the government aspect. Well, first of all, government is a huge target. And we obviously saw that with the election. We saw that with the hack of the office of personnel management, et cetera. And so, you know, nation states are going after governments as well as criminal organizations. So General Alexander can talk about what he did to protect us as citizens and our government, but he also has a great insight in terms of what hackers are doing to go after critical infrastructure. He's got some experience thinking about it. So he's going to bring that thinking in. Absolutely. And he's going to give us an update on the latest vectors of attacks that are happening and give us some insight on what he experienced trying to protect the United States, but also try to protect our businesses and infrastructure. So we wanted to have him kick things off to give, you know, the NSA, the ex-NSA head, tell us what's going on. And you've got amazing guests here. I've got the CISO from Aetna, the chief security officer from Cisco, the global value chain. You've got US Bank. You've got Amazon Web Services here, talking about the best practice of running workloads on an Amazon service cloud. So you've got the gamut of industry, as well as some government people who have experienced dealing with this from a practitioner standpoint. What's the convoluteness of that? What's the trends that are coming out of those? What can people expect to hear and look forward to watching the videos for? You know, I think it's going to be some of the trends that you guys talk about. It's like, how can you leverage AI and machine learning to help better protect your organization as well? So that's going to be one huge trend. I think the other trend, and that's why we have the folks from Amazon, is in a world in which we're increasingly using mobile and cloud and leaving the perimeter, you know, in a world where there's no perimeter, how can you secure your users, your data, et cetera? So I think the focus of the conference is going to be very much on leveraging modern and new technologies, AI, machine learning, discussing concepts like zero trust, and then also figuring out and helping people really get some good ideas about, as they make the move to cloud, how can they secure themselves and make themselves more secure than when they had the traditional perimeter set up? I mean, given the security landscape, I mean, you and I discussed this in and around the industry, go back seven years, oh, cloud's unsecured, now cloud seems to be more secure than on-prem because of the work that Amazon, for instance, they up their game significantly in that security, have a thing. Absolutely, and you know, it's interesting, it's, I mean, you see it firsthand. I mean, Google comes out with announcements, Microsoft, Oracle, et cetera, and security is a key issue, and they're trying to provide a more secure platform to get people comfortable moving with the cloud. At the same time, there's vendors such as Centrify, that there's value add that we can provide, and one area that we specifically provide is in the area of identity, right, and controlling who can access what as well. So, yeah, it completely reshapes how you do security, and the vendors are contributing, and then what's so important that the solutions that we had before are being completely disruptive, and they need to be completely adopted for the new cloud world. I know it's your first event, you guys are underwriting this, it's presented by Centrify, it's not sponsored by, it's not your show, although you're doing a lot of heavy lifting and supporting this, but your vision for this CyberConnect is really more of a gathering amongst industry folks, we're certainly glad to be part of it, thanks for inviting us, we're glad to be there, but this is not a Centrify-only thing. Explain the presented by Centrify, vis-a-vis this CyberConnect. And we've also put forth another organization that we've worked with, it's an organization called ICIT, the Institute for Critical Information Technology, and what they are is they're a think tank, and they are very much about how can we support and secure the infrastructure of the United States as well, and so we didn't want this to be a vendor fest, right, we wanted to be able to have all parties, no matter what technologies they use, to be able to come together and get value of this, and it benefits Centrify because it raises awareness and visibility for us, but even more important that we wanted to give back to the community and offer something unique and different that this is not just another vendor fest show, et cetera, this is something where it's a bringing together of really smart people that are on the front lines of securing their organizations, and we just felt that so much value could be driven from it because all the other shows are all about how you can hack an ATM and all that stuff, and that's great, that's great for a hacker, but that doesn't really help business people who- For vendors trying to sell something, right? Exactly. Another platform to measure something. Yeah, exactly. This is more of a laid-back approach. Well, I think that's great leadership, I want to give you some props for that. Thanks. You guys are very, as you said, community-centric, and you mentioned community, this is about giving back, and that's certainly going to be helpful, but security has always been kind of a community thing, but now you're starting to see the business and industry community coming together. What's your vision for the security community at the CXO level? What's needed, what's your vision? Yeah, I think what's needed is better sharing of best practices and really more collaboration because the same attacks that are going to happen for, say, one healthcare organization, the hackers are going to use the same means and methods as well, and so if you get the CISOs in the room together and hear what the others are experiencing, it's just going to make them more better. So the first thing is to open up the communication. The second thing is that could we figure out a way from a platform or technology perspective to share that information and share that knowledge, but the first step is to get the people in the room to hear from their peers of what's going on, and frankly, government at one point was supposed to be doing it, it's not really doing it, so I think an event like this can really help in that regard. Well, and also I would just point out the growth in GovCloud and following some of the stuff going on on Amazon as an example had been skyrocketing, so you started to see industry and government coming together, and now you've got a global landscape. This is interesting times and I want to get your reaction to some of the things that have been said here on theCUBE and also out in the marketplace where it used to be state actor game on state on state, and then they revealed their cards and they're out in the open, but now the states are sponsoring through open source and also in these public domains, whether it's WikiLeaks or whatever, you're starting to see actors being subsidized or sponsored, and so that opens up the democratization capability for people to organize and attack the United States and companies. Absolutely, I mean you can right now, you can actually pay an order, they have a help desk, and it's like ordering a service and you want, oh, you want 500 bots going after this, I mean. It's mere journalists for 10K. Exactly, it's like it's as a service, hacking as a service, they have help desk, et cetera, and the interesting thing is. It's a business model. It's a business model, you're absolutely right, that people, it's all pay to play, right? And just the number of resources being devoted and dedicated, and we're talking about thousands of people in Russia, thousands of people in North Korea, thousands of people in China, and what came out just recently is now that they're shifting their target to individuals, and so now you may have an individual that there may be a person just dedicated to them in China or Russia or North Korea trying to hack into them as well. So it's getting really scary, and that's why. It's almost too hard for one company to brute force. This is where the collective intelligence of the community really plays a big difference on the best practices, because when you thought you had one model nailed, not just tech, the business model, it might shift. So it seems like a moving train. Yeah, and I think there needs to be, and we're having NIST show up, and so we're getting the government, but I really think that there does need to be kind of a more of an open sourcing of knowledge and information to help better fine tune the machine learning that's needed and required to prevent these type of breaches. So what can we expect? Obviously there's a preview to the show. We'll be there Monday, broadcasting live all day. What can people expect of the event content-wise? What are your favorites? Well, I mean, first of all, just the people that we have there. I mean, we're going to get the two CCOs from two of the biggest healthcare companies. We're going to get the former head of the NSA. We're going to get the CISO of US Bank. I mean, we're talking the biggest financial services organizations. We're going to have the biggest healthcare organizations. We're going to have the people doing cyber- Get master cards there? Oh yeah, master card. We're going to get the, we have the German government there as well. I mean, so we've got government, both US as well as European. We've got all the big people in terms of that have to secure the largest banks, the largest healthcare, et cetera. So I think, and then we also have, as you talked about, obviously, Centrify is going to be there, but we're going to have AWS and we're going to have some other folks from some of the top vendors in the industry as well. So it's going to be a great mixture of government, business as well as vendors as well, participating, contributing and talking about these problems. So it's an inaugural event. Yes. You're looking for some success. We'll see how it goes. We'll be there. What can you expect? You're going to do this every year, twice a year. What's the thoughts on the event itself? It's been amazing, the response. So we just thought we were going to have 400 people. We sold out where we're getting close to 600 people. And now we're going to have over a thousand people that are going to be doing the live streaming. I mean, there's just a huge pent-up demand for this as well. So we actually had a kind of shutdown registration and sold out a week or two ago or so. And so far it looks really good. Let's see how it goes. But it looks like we can easily double this. And so we're already thinking about next year. We'll see how the event goes. But if you just look at the lineup, look at the interest or whatever, there's a pent-up demand to better secure government and enterprises. And leadership, like you guys are taking as initiation, plus others coming together, we're certainly super glad to be a part of the community. And we look forward to the coverage. This is really kind of what the industry needs. Absolutely. All right, Tom Kemp, the CEO and founder of Centrify, really fast-growing startup, doing an event for the community, very strong approach. I love the posture. I think that's the way to go out of these vendor shows. You know how I feel about that. It's all about the community. This is a community. It's a Bitcoin, it's a blockchain. Know your customer anti-money laundering. It's an identity game. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, by the way, Quick, is there going to be any blockchain action there? Or is it? I don't know about that. I don't think so. Next year. Next year, exactly. It's certainly coming. Blockchain security as well as a lot of great topics. Check out CyberConnect 2017. If you can't make it to New York, they're sold out. Thecube.net is where you can watch it live. And of course, we'll have all the video coverage on demand on thecube.net as well. So we'll have all the sessions on great stuff. Tom Kemp, CEO. I'm John Furrier from TheCube here in Palo Alto. Thanks for watching.