Running two large sized companies that both focus on breaking into companies as well as defending them has helped put things into perspectives on both successes and failures from a defense perspective. This talk will dive into some of the most common methods attackers go after organizations, but focus on non traditional ways of defending the network against them. We'll be diving into prevention, detection, deception, AI (or lack thereof and marketing fluff), and much more. Let's cut right down to it, and walk away with six things you can do today to better defend and identify attacks earlier in the attack cycle.