Mark Doering

Mark Doering is Director of Technical Marketing at NetScout. Mark has over 35 years of experience leading technical engineering teams, integration technologies, security product research and development, as well as consulting for security and wireless architectures. Previous to Netscout, Mark worked for VSS Monitoring as a Security Architect. Prior to that Mark worked at Cisco with the Security Technology Group (STG), driving the Borderless Network Security and Wireless Security products as well as the Consulting Security Services at Cisco Systems for over 16 years. Mark has achieved his GIAC - Certified Incident Handler Certification, and the ISC² - Certified Information Systems Security Professional Certification (CISSP). During his tenure with Cisco he helped define best practices like the Cisco SAFE Security Blueprint as well as the development of the Cisco Certified Security CCIE.

Are "disrupted" employees a new cybersecurity threat?

Mark Doering

March 25, 2021

Another challenge is the new home office, where spouses may be working remotely, often alongside their children attending school online. Home networks lack typical protections and bifurcations of the corporate office and may be prone to attacks using lateral movement techniques. In these scenarios, after gaining initial access through an insufficiently protected device, such as a family computer, attackers move deeper into a network, searching for other devices to compromise or obtain increased privileges. This continued probing could eventually lead to the exfiltration of sensitive corporate data or high-value intellectual property.

Combating insider threats in the age of remote work

Mark Doering

December 14, 2020

Employees forced to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic altered their online habits, and to minimize hacking risk they needed cybersecurity tools to keep up. As a result, security administrators face a danger they may not have previously anticipated: attacks from insiders.

Revised NIST Cyber Security Framework - Security Magazine

Leveraging packet data to improve network agility and reduce costs

Mark Doering

June 30, 2020

Traditional network management approaches of multiple point products, manual change processes, monolithic policies and data silos no longer work. Business, risk, service and security assurance programs all need to be agile, efficient and anticipate future threats and remedies.

Organizations continuously monitor their networks and systems for risk, yet the people with legitimate access are often the least monitored part of the model. Discover a Workforce Risk Intelligence Framework that adds a dedicated layer focused on workforce risk.

In today’s higher education environment, where institutions face evolving and multifaceted incidents, safety must be embedded into the fabric of campus culture. Learn strategies for generating collective buy-in from faculty, staff, students and senior leadership.

Mark Doering

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Are "disrupted" employees a new cybersecurity threat?

Combating insider threats in the age of remote work

Leveraging packet data to improve network agility and reduce costs

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