Discussion with AlgoSec around ransomware based off of the Extrahop Cyber Confidence Index 2022.  I cover numerous questions about what organizations are doing today and what they should change to improve cyber defenses.  The crux of this study shows the cognitive dissonance of cyber security leaders and IT decision makers.  They believe one thing whereas the evidence completely contradicts what they say.
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In this episode I discuss cyber-attacks in the Summer of 2022.  I’ll review who was attacked, its impact, and the aftermath.  While I would love to go into the technical details about the attacks, that data becomes harder and harder to find with each breach and news release.  Victims are tight lipped and apparently being told more and more to not share technical details.  

 We know that both China and Russia have increased cyber-attacks due to global tension in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) and Ukraine.  I am certain there have been many, many, more that we are not hearing about for internal security reasons as well as not “tipping our hand” that we know what’s happening or who we believe is doing the attacks.  Attribution for attacks is extremely difficult as mentioned previously with the swatting incident on an American federal representative. 

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This episode covers online tools and lab environments that cyber security students and early professionals can use to learn and increase technical skills.  While these environments are usually meant for those that want to get very deep with the technical side of cyber security, non-technical folks can certainly use these as well.  The tools/trainings go as deep as the user wants.  I also go over building a lab at home using Virtual Box or VMWare.  I also provide insight and recommendations for building a Cloud based lab environment in Azure or AWS.  This episode came out of comments made by Adrianus Warmenhove in S4E8 around VPN's and NordVPN.

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