Presenter: Eric Kostlan, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Security Technologies Group

"Above all, Snort is a community" -Eric

Snort stats

• over 4 million downloads
• nearly 500,000 registered users

Snort was created in 1998 (!!). Sourcefire founded in 2001.

Presenters: Dave Zacks, Distinguished Engineer; Peter Zones, Principle Engineer

History has been: 10x performnce increase at 3x the cost. 40Gb broke that model -> 100Gb PHYs were very expensive; industry needed/wanted an intermediate step.

Presenter: Eric Howard, Techincal Marketing Engineer

"Why aren't we stopping all the malware???"

Presenter: Chuck Stickney, Cisco SE

Handful of OT folks in the room; majority IT.

Convergence Benefits

• Simplification (common protocols)
• Reduced Cost
• Pervasive enablement of features and services

Presenter: Markus Harbek, CCIE, CCDE

Who knows what SDN stands for?

• Still Don't kNow
• Still Does Nothing
• Schnitzel Dinner Night

Presenter: Craig Williams (@security_craig) - Sr Technical Leader / Security Outreach Manager, Cisco TALOS

"I'm from Talos. We love to stop bad guys."

Talos by the numbers:

• 1.1 million incoming malware samples per day
• 1.5 billion Sender Base reputation queries per day

Talos has a serious amount of data. For serious.

Presenter: Konrad Reszka, IoT Vertical Solutions Group Engineering Lead

"Given a chance, how many people in this room would volunteer to be a meteorologist in San Diego? You'd never be wrong!"

Presenter: Jeff Schutt - Cybersecurity Solutions Architect (Jeff works in Adv Services in the IoT team)

Full Title: An IoT Security Model & Architecture for Securing Cyber-Physical and IT-OT Converged Assets

Mix of IT/OT folks in the room.

How to Call REST APIs from a REST Client and Python

Presenter: Matt (didn't catch last name, sorry)

I'm lucky enough to be heading to Cisco Live in San Diego this year to host customers from my area. When I'm not with a customer during the day I plan on attending these sessions: