Name: Protecting Your Customers (& Your Business) from Holiday Scams: The 2023 Edition
Start: 2023-12-12T19:00:00Z
End: 2023-12-12T19:00:45.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Thought provoking webinars featuring cybersecurity subject matter experts discussing recent trends on digital risk protection services, phishing protection, threat intelligence, artificial intelligence, machine learning, social media monitoring, external security, trademark infringement, scam and fraud protection, security operations, dark web monitoring, brand protection, and more!

The channels is educational for for CIOs, CISOs, S/VPs, Directors, Managers, Architects, Engineers, SecOps and Analysts in Security and IT. 

From fake accounts to elaborate scam campaigns, Roblox faces a diverse group of cybersecurity threats targeting their popular online platform. As a video game developer with digital currency translating to real-world money, Roblox must constantly stay vigilant against social media impersonation, web spoofing, and other scam tactics that aim to steal sensitive financial data from their users.  

Roblox relies on Bolster to combat an evolving suite of cybersecurity threats, with automated detection and takedown technology that works across social, web, and app stores. In this webinar, hear from Roblox’s team of cyber risk professionals on how they’ve reduced the online attack surface for their customers.  

In this panel discussion, learn:  
1. What types of online threats Roblox experiences 
2. How Roblox protects the integrity of their gaming network 
3. What are best practices for reducing the attack surface 
4. How Roblox integrates digital risk protection into their environment

Out Playing the Hackers: How Roblox Protects Their Brand from Impersonations

In this webinar, we discuss how we have trained and deployed state-of-the-art large language models from the BERT and GPT families in the Bolster Security platform to elevate the efficacy of protection we deliver to our customers. These models plug into our infrastructure on multiple levels, and fully automate our workflows from detection and monitoring, through to takedowns. Our host will take you through the performance of these large language models on standardized metrics. Furthermore, we will expand on the ideas of strategies to integrate LLMs into software pipelines like zero-shot and fine-tuning based learning. 

In this webinar, you’ll hear from the Bolster threat research team on: 

- Our revamped intent detection module, which now integrates Convolutional BERT LLM using the revolutionary Transformer architecture. 
- How Bolster has simplified the training and testing of our models with HuggingFace’s Transformer API. 
- The explosion on the Natural Language Processing landscape caused by Generative AI based LLMs like GPT and LLaMa and how Bolster is harnessing this technology. 
- The all-new automated takedowns for tackling fake mobile app phishing attacks, which deploys a state-of-the-art generative AI-based LLM to eliminate the need of any human intervention in takedowns. 

Join us Tuesday, October 17th at 11am PST/2pm EST

Leveraging LLMs for Phishing Detection and Takedowns

From typosquat domains to calculated phishing attacks, it’s a headache for businesses to manage the evolving world of digital risk from the open web to the dark web. However, with access to billions of data points combined with powerful machine learning, organizations can find ways to protect their online brand from malicious actors looking to harm it.  

Join us for our fireside chat with Bolster customer Mercury Technologies, a banking service for startups, to hear how they’ve utilized the Bolster web, social media, and dark web monitoring capabilities to mitigate risks targeting their banking business on all parts of the Internet. In this webinar, you’ll hear from Mercury Information Security Architect Sebastian Whiting and Bolster Chief Technology Officer Shashi Prakash on Mercury’s experience using Bolster to combat digital threats, including: 

1. Identifying the misuse of their brand across the web 
2. Combating phishing scams omnichannel 
3. Getting visibility into dark web activities against their brand  
4. Responding to digital threats and strengthening the Mercury brand

Brand Protection and Dark Web Monitoring: A Fireside Chat with Mercury

Struggling with malicious or suspicious domains mimicking your brand and targeting your customers and employees? Join our master class where Bolster covers delves into in-house malicious domain takedowns and best practices and helpful tips. 

In this webinar, you will learn all the best tips and tricks to take down domains like a pro! Femi Igberase, Principal Solutions Engineer at Bolster, will share how to develop an In-house takedown strategy, tools and techniques for investigation, legal considerations, effective takedown techniques, and more. You will get firsthand demonstration on: 

• Building the takedown strategy tailored to your organization’s needs
• Leveraging the tools and techniques used in the investigation and evidence gathering process
• Understand the legal considerations and navigate jurisdictional challenges effectively
• Using proven takedown techniques and best practices for successful takedowns

Mastering In-House Malicious Domain Takedowns: Strategies and Best Practices

Bolster’s exclusive research uncovered a massive brand impersonation scam campaign this past year. Bolster’s threat research team discovered this campaign, which specifically targeted 100+ popular clothing, footwear, and apparel brands, including Nike, Puma, Adidas, and many others, caused significant damage. 

Join us in this webinar to learn how our research team uncovered this brand impersonation campaign, the threat actors and their tactics behind it, and ways to protect your organization from similar phishing campaigns. In this webinar, Bolster will do in depth into: 

• How we uncovered an extensive network of fraudulent websites with over 3,000+ active domains
• When the campaign started and their techniques to stay under the radar for years 
• Where the most significant increase in activity occurred and the damage that was done 
• The current state of the retail phishing campaign and how to protect your organization and customers

Uncovering 6000+ Phishing Sites In a Widespread Impersonation Campaign

Phishing attacks are on the rise, organizations need to find more ways to combat attackers. In this part two of our “Secret Weapon to Phishing” series, a little-known secret to protect organizations is referral logs. 

Referral logs are a part of your web server's log that tracks the traffic to your site and through analysis, organizations can gain valuable insight into the activity on a site, including which pages are accessed the most, the average length of a session, and more.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about how referral logs can be used to combat phishing attacks where Abhilash Garimella, Head of Research at Bolster, covers: 

• Attacker techniques and strategies that are caught by referral logs  
• Deployment tips to enable referral logs in your organization
• Best ways to analyze referral logs to detect and then take action on phishing activities
• Real-world examples of how referral logs have been used to combat phishing attacks and protect your sensitive data

Referral Logs: The Secret Weapon to Combat Phishing Attacks (Part 2)

While there are many strategies to combat phishing, there is one strategy that often goes unnoticed—web beacons.  A web beacon is a technique used on web pages that triggers an alert when someone accesses the page. 

While web beacons are more infamously known for their use in online and email tracking, they are surprisingly a highly effective tool for protecting against phishing attacks.

In this webinar, Abhilash Garimella, Head of Research at Bolster, explains how organizations can leverage web beacons to:
• Detect phishing attempts against their domains and users
• Gain valuable insights on how to implement web beacons for better security
• Protect against data breaches with proven best practices

Web Beacons: The Secret Weapon Against Phishing Attacks

The holiday season is upon us, and unfortunately that means so are the phishing and scam attacks. Hackers utilize the heightened consumerism and deal-centered shopping days to target unsuspecting customers and brands. Our Bolster Research Team is back for the second year in a row to discuss this year’s trends, and help you protect your digital assets. 

2023 Has been quite the year for scammers targeting the retail industry; we uncovered one of the largest brand impersonation attacks towards large retail companies earlier this year, and the trend has continued since. Join us for our upcoming webinar to hear the latest on phishing and scam attacks targeting businesses, including: 

- The most common holiday scams in 2023 
- Real-world examples of phishing scams targeting brands (and lessons learned from the attacks) 
- How to safeguard your business against holiday-specific scams, including phishing sites, gift card scams, fake sales, and more 
- Actionable steps to respond to an active threat against your business

Protecting Your Customers (& Your Business) from Holiday Scams: The 2023 Edition

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