Azure and Friends September Event

Teemu kicked off the event, welcoming us, explaining what Azure and Friends is, and so on. Beyond No Return: Preparing Your Organization for Cyber War by Miska Kytö (Zure) To get a dashboard of victims hit by ransomware attacks, for example in Finland - ransomware.live/country/fin. Finland is not a major target because smaller economy. However, 50% of ransomware attacks in 20205 happened against small companies (<50 people). With AI both the velocity and nature (advanced techniques) of the attacks has increased. It used to take around 1year between when a vulnerability was found and exploited to now, when vulnerabilities are exploited before they are announced. The CARVER framework provides a targeting mechanism. But this can be used by defenders as well, to figure out what requires more resources. A walkthrough of a sample real-estate company’s IT followed. It was interesting. Honeypots are a good way to attract an attacker - so that it trips up our alarms. Defender for identity for…