The Weekend Edition: Issue 7
Hello and welcome to a special version of the Weekend Edition –?Thursday March 3rd saw our 7th Human Layer Security Summit, featuring InfoSec experts and leaders from a range of organizations.
But one stand out session featured David Kennedy, CEO and Founder of Trusted Sec, and Elvis Chan, Asst. Special Agent in Charge at the FBI. Together they discussed ransomware and supply chain attacks; how they’re often devastating for businesses, and how to protect against them.?
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Supply chain attacks are rising because, as David frankly explained, “Why target one individual victim when you can target a thousand victims and get a much larger payout”.
From the law enforcement side, Elvis Chan explains how we’re seeing more ‘ransomware as a service’, because as well as the technical elements of an attack,?it’s also essential that bad actors can communicate clearly in English, and have access to money-laundering services to take the payment.?
“That’s a lot of sophisticated elements and organization,” says Elvis, “and that’s what the FBI is good at, going after syndicates and organizations”. Indeed, Elvis informs us that the FBI currently has over 100 investigations underway. Watch the full discussion below.
Of course that was just one of six session at our summit. Others explored topics such as How to Augment Microsoft 365 to Supercharge Email Security, Preventing Advanced Attacks and Influencing Safe Behavior, and Why Organizations Should Prioritize Securing the Human. You can watch them all and find out more on our blog .
As our summit highlighted, many attacks come in the form of phishing emails. Late last year we published a report that detected nearly 2 million malicious emails which slipped past legacy phishing solutions in the previous 12-months. Find out when bad actors like to strike, right down to the time of day, in our Spear Phishing Threat Landscape Report .
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