Intelligence-based computer network defence: Understanding the cyber kill chain (Royal Holloway University conference)

Get an overview the threat groups targeting the legal and professional services industries, as well as the top 5 malware and crimewave families detected.

Organizations must address the Cyber Kill Chain to defend against advanced threats. The Cyber Kill Chain describes the 7 stages of an attack - reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, installation, command and control, and actions on targets. Traditionally, organizations focused on prevention at the perimeter, but attackers have bypassed these defenses. To improve security, organizations should detect, deny, disrupt, and recover at each stage of the Cyber Kill Chain rather than solely focusing on prevention. This involves technologies like network monitoring, endpoint protection, and threat intelligence across all phases of an attack.

Jim Aldridge from FireEye discusses what executives should ask their security teams. This is available on the FireEye Blog www.fireeye.com/blog/executive-perspective/2015/11/proactively_engaged.html

This on-demand webcast shows you how you shield your organization from such attacks – as well as how to respond if ransomware does penetrate your organization. Baseline Technologies’ Mike Crowley gives you the inside track on how ransomware works and how to lower your risk of ransomware attacks.

This document provides an introduction to cyber forensics. It defines key terms like forensics science, digital forensics, and cyber forensics. It also discusses cyber attack and malware trends, GDPR requirements, core principles of cyber forensics investigations, and presents an overview of the goals, actions, and scope of activities in a cyber forensics investigation. Finally, it provides a case study example of a client database leak investigation.

The document discusses the importance of endpoint security and provides an overview of various endpoint security solutions. It notes that with increased mobility and remote access, the network perimeter is no longer well-defined, making endpoint security crucial. It summarizes some key endpoint security vendors and technologies, including Cisco NAC, Microsoft NAP, and Trusted Network Connect. The document emphasizes that effective endpoint security requires a strategic approach to balance connectivity and protection.

The document discusses the concept of defense in depth (DID) as it relates to cybersecurity. DID is defined as building mutually supporting layers of defense to reduce vulnerabilities and protect against attacks. The key aspects of DID include understanding threats, seeing the full battlefield, using defensive advantages, concentrating defenses, coordinating assets, and balancing security and legal constraints. The document advocates applying DID principles through multiple overlapping controls and frameworks, rather than relying on a single compliance standard, in order to provide comprehensive security that can withstand attacks from various threat actors.

This document discusses the cyber attack lifecycle and strategies for advanced adversaries. It describes the typical stages an adversary goes through, including reconnaissance, exploitation, delivery, installation, command and control, and actions on objectives. The adversary's goal is to accomplish their task and exfiltrate information without detection. New strategic approaches are needed to detect threats across all points, including the network edge, endpoints, mobile devices, and clouds. Security controls must innovate faster to reduce the vulnerability gap against sophisticated global attackers.

Ransomware is typically initiated via phishing or social engineering tactics, these attacks often take advantage of human error for the successful delivery of the malware. These criminal organizations are impartial to the size of your organization. They target any company with data, and if you don't pay the ransom, your information could be posted to a public forum or sold on the Dark Web for profit. Most companies unfortunately are forced to pay due to system failure and file corruption. The scariest about these methods is that the Ransomware doesn't need to be developed by the attackers. Ransomware services can now be purchased on the DarkWeb and used at the Cybercriminal's will (RAAS). As these Ransomware attacks and services evolve, how can companies arm themselves with the right solutions to defend themselves from these evergrowing attacks? Join us in our latest webinar with Dr. Christine Izuakor (cybersecurity expert) and Jay Godse (head of product dev at Veriato).

The document discusses the state of threat detection in 2018 and plans for improving threat detection and hunting in 2019. Some key points: - Email still delivers most malware while file-less attacks that evade prevention are rising. Cyber attacks are the top concern for many businesses. - Only 28% of respondents felt preventive defenses were highly effective against targeted attacks. Just 21% believed post-breach detection was highly effective. - Common pain points included insufficient resources, lack of automation for incident response, and alert overload. - Threat hunting involves proactive searching across systems based on expert hypotheses, unlike typical detection techniques. Many organizations do not threat hunt due to lack of time, skills or visibility. - To

My presentation on ITBIZ/BAKOTECH event @UK Ambassador Residence win cooperation with Jason Steer, Director for Strategy, FireEye EMEA.

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