Chi-en (Ashley) Shen is a Senior Cyber Threat Analyst at Team T5 Research, where she focuses on tracking and monitoring Advance Persistence Threat (APT) and cyber espionage attacks. Her major areas of research include malware analysis, malicious document, reverse engineering, and tracking of emerging threat. She is a member of Hacks in Taiwan Conference and is one of the founders and organizers of HITCON GIRLS, the first security community for women in Taiwan. Ashley is also a regular speaker at information security conferences, including CODE BLUE, Troopers, HITCON Community and HITCON Enterprise.
Abstract
Catching the Golden Snitch - Leveraging Threats with an Intelligent Platform to Defend against
Cyber Attacks from an Advantageous Position
Every day, security personnel in all types of industries and geographies are facing numerous
attacks with emerging techniques from various adversaries. While there are a numbers of new
malwares, incidents, indicators, vulnerabilities and adversaries that are being reported from
internal and external resources day by day, how do we identify their most critical threats with
these uncoordinated and fragmented information? How do we turn this information into the
actionable defense procedures? The answer is “with the help of Threat Intelligence Program”.
This is not a sales talk, we build our own intelligence platform and currently this is internal use
only. We encourage every security firms, organization or enterprise to build your own
intelligence platform. In this talk, we will explain why threat intelligence platform is essential in
everyone’s defense tactic and how could the platform help to identify your threat. We will
introduce the indispensable functions in threat intelligence platform and demonstrate how
security and analyst could leverage the platform with real case APT attack incident. Starting
from an individual incident, we will explain how we linked this attack to others, and how we
eventually recognized the adversary behind the scene.