Special Event – Cybersecurity
Westwind is pleased to host a special cybersecurity event.
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SESSION 1: ENTERPRISE SEARCH-IN-STORAGE
Presenters: David Follett, Lewis Rhodes Laboratories and Jerry Smith, Sandia National Laboratories
SESSION 2: SPLUNK ACCELERATION/OFFLOAD THROUGH UNINDEXED DATA SEARCHES
Presenters: Doug Wolfe and Al Leyva, Blacklynx
SESSION 3: ACCELERATING GRAPH ANALYTICS ON AMD FPGAs
Presenter: Nathan Chang
THE DETAILS (see below for abstracts, speaker bios, location)
Overview: Security breaches aren’t just likely, they’re inevitable, and a smart cyber readiness plan includes how quickly you can respond to these attacks. Xilinx has worked with partners to create a solution to search and query cyber and machine logs, including PCAP network traffic, in record time. This gives analysts real-time analytics on months or even years of captured data without ETL or indexing. In addition, our solution uses the familiar Splunk UI making SOC adoption frictionless. This solution has been validated by many existing clients, including Sandia National Laboratories(SNL). They have verified 100x faster performance over their previous solution. While our solution is targeted at cybersecurity, the solution’s flexibility allows for search and query of any large dataset. As a result, customers have expanded their use cases into other areas of log analytics, machine learning model analysis, etc. The CIO at SNL has called this solution a “game-changer.”
SESSION 1: ENTERPRISE SEARCH-IN-STORAGE
Presenters: David Follett, Lewis Rhodes Laboratories s & Jerry Smith, Sandia National Laboratories
ABSTRACT: Lewis Rhodes Labs, Inc is introducing NPUsearch™, a 96TB self-searching storage appliance that completes regex searches in storage in <25 minutes, no indexing or ETL required. NPUsearch™ utilizes a LRL neuromorphic processor implemented on FPGA local to SSD, with software compiler and drivers, and accessed by a simple python-based API. The open-source distributed file system supports fully-scalable search on PB racks of storage. Distributed regex searches complete in <25 minutes. In early deployment assessments, Sandia demonstrated >100x improvement in search times on data stored in a small NPUsearch cluster.
SESSION 2: SPLUNK ACCELERATION/OFFLOAD THROUGH UNINDEXED DATA SEARCHES
Presenters: Doug Wolfe and Al Leyva, Blacklynx
ABSTRACT: Security breaches aren’t just likely, they’re inevitable, and a smart cyber readiness plan includes how quickly you can respond to these attacks. AMD has worked with our partners Blacklynx and Lewis Rhodes Labs to create a solution to search and query cyber data and machine logs, including PCAP network traffic, in record time. This gives cyber analysts real-time analytics as well as cyber forensics on months or even years of captured data without ETL or indexing. This solution leverages existing Splunk installations allowing a stand-aside solution that searches raw data without having to directly ingest into Splunk. Not only are search times improved from many hours to just a few minutes, but ingest costs are reduced as well. Our solution is designed to address many of the requirements of the Cybersecurity Executive Order 14028 and the OMB M-21-31 guidelines for event logging and data retention.
SESSION 3: ACCELERATING GRAPH ANALYTICS ON AMD FPGAs
Presenter: Nathan Chang
ABSTRACT: Graph is transforming the data analytics landscape. Gartner forecasts that “By 2025, graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations, up from 10% in 2021, facilitating rapid decision making across Enterprise.” Accelerated graph analytics is a new and emerging technology that allows organizations to think differently and create new, intelligence-based business opportunities. Example industries with known use cases are financial services, insurance, healthcare providers and payers, telecoms, cybersecurity, public sector, aerospace and defense, law enforcement, energy and the list continues. Two specific applications of accelerated graph analytics are Customer Journeys using recommendation engines, in this case specifically for healthcare and Anti-money laundering (AML), which continues to grow throughout our banking and financial sectors.
SPEAKER BIOS
JERRY SMITH, Sandia National Laboratories
Jerry Smith is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in Enterprise Cyber Security at Sandia National Laboratories. He has been at Sandia since 2001, where he has had time in High-Performance Computing, Enterprise Computing Architecture, and now in Cyber/Information Security with a focus on network intrusion detections.
DAVID FOLLETT, Lewis Rhodes Laboratories
David Follett is an inventor and serial entrepreneur with 40 years of experience in semiconductors, optics, computer architecture, and neuroscience. He started his career at Bell Labs Murray Hill and was the founder and CEO of GigaNet, a networking start-up that teamed with Sandia National Labs to invent virtual IO, virtual queuing, and RDMA. The resulting product won a joint R&D 100 award in 1996, which ultimately evolved into Infiniband. He is currently a co-founder and CEO of Lewis Rhodes Labs, a neuromorphic computing company whose latest product, NPUsearch™, integrates search capability directly into SSD storage. NPUsearch scans petabytes of data in under 25 minutes. No indexing required.
DOUG WOLFE, BlackLynx
Doug Wolfe is currently a Vice President and General Manager for Jacobs. He served as the CEO of BlackLynx from March 2018 until November 2021 when Jacobs acquired BlackLynx. BlackLynx is an industry leader in delivering high-performance computing and cloud infrastructure services to the government, and Wolfe is continuing to enhance and deliver mission-critical capabilities in his new position.
A recognized federal government leader, Doug Wolfe served 33 years with the CIA, his last position being Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Directorate. He retired from federal service in December 2017 and today Wolfe oversees operations at BlackLynx, which specializes in high-performance analytics and computing.
Wolfe served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the CIA from 2013 to 2016, in charge of Agency Information Technology (IT) vision and strategic direction, along with advising the Intelligence Community (IC).
Throughout his career, Wolfe held multiple CIA positions, among them were Deputy Director for Acquisition, Technology, and Facilities at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); Deputy Director of the Office of Global Access (OGA), and program manager overseeing the end-to-end system acquisition of an innovative new source and method for the Intelligence Community. Wolfe holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California, and a master’s degree in system engineering from Virginia Tech.
LOCATION
Westwind Subsidiary, Roadrunner 3D
5651 Jefferson St. NE, Ste B
Albuquerque, NM 87109