This year’s mWISE Conference focused on how top security practitioners deal with today’s biggest cyber threats. The urgency for doing so couldn’t have been better communicated than through the ransomware attack that recently crippled services at MGM Resorts International Inc.The need to respond, especially to social engineering attacks, was a key focus for Kevin Mandia (pictured), chief executive officer of Mandiant, a Google LLC company, during a keynote session at the mWISE Conference. Companies need to assume that employees are going to fall for these social engineering attacks, according to Mandia

The threat landscape is bifurcated between fast and destructive ransomware attacks and slow and quiet advanced threat actors, leading organizations to focus on endpoint, identity, cloud and threat network security.These developments have led to Corelight Inc. and Mandiant Inc. establishing a collaboration in which Mandiant leverages the capabilities of Corelight technology for its response initiatives and managed defense services. Simultaneously, Corelight has seamlessly integrated its technology across components of the Google platform