Joel Amick

Abstract: Threat Hunting has become widely popular in the Cyber Security Industry, and for good reason. Becoming more proactive and finding problems before they escalate can result in huge savings — think brushing your teeth to prevent a cavity. For this reason Threat Hunting practices, which have traditionally only been applied to Cyber Security Operations, should be expanded to other areas of Cyber Security. Our presentation will focus on threat hunts for Insider Threat and Cyber Fraud.

Joel is a lecturer and Director level IT professional with almost 20 years of experience. Currently Joel is the Director of Cyber Analytics and Data Science at TIAA leveraging Data Science and Cyber Security to reduce the threat landscape of this Fortune 100 company. Joel has spent his career helping companies develop innovative solutions to complex problems and moving their maturity level forward.

A Graduate from UNCC, Joel holds an MBA in Data Science, a Master’s of Science in Information Security and a CISSP certification among others. Joel is a member of InfraGard as well as the Metro-Charlotte Electronic Crimes Task Force. Joel has an affinity for Cybersecurity and Data Science and has been able to meld these two passions together into an exciting discipline.

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