Achieving Improved Cybersecurity Posture Across IT & OT Infrastructures

2018 is the year of high volume DDoS attacks. Since the emergence of the new attack vector memcached reflection in February, new bandwidth records have been set. Companies worldwide suddenly found themselves exposed to a new DDoS risk. In a webinar, the Link11 IT security experts Karsten Desler and Aatish Pattni explain how to assess the threats. Today's global IT infrastructures face a DDoS threat that has never existed before with such massive bandwidths. This issue relates to attack vectors, which can hit companies with a really destructive attack volume due to enormous amplification factors. The largest possible 'amplification reflection vector' to date has been detected in memcached reflection attacks. Cyber criminals can theoretically use the vector to increase their attacks by a factor of 50,000.

With the rapid rise of web application attacks, which is the number one source of data breaches, securing cloud-based web applications is a challenge. In order to fully protect your web applications in the cloud, it is important to know the risks, select the right security tool, and understand your role in the shared responsibility for security. Securing your AWS workload can mean many different things, ranging from locking down your environment via the AWS best practices list, to completely outsourcing the security management and responsibility to another company. While every company’s security journey is different, everyone can agree that the need to monitor and improve security posture is becoming increasingly important.

Python is the second most popular language and is very easy to start using. It is almost a de-facto standard in machine learning. Here be dragons! Many machine learning (ML) models are Python pickle files under the hood. The use of pickling conserves memory, enables start-and-stop model training, and makes trained models portable (and, thereby, shareable).

"A single vulnerability is all an attacker needs"~ A cybersecurity saying that fits with the facts even till date. Security incidents frequently make the headlines, and it is always a surprise when the walls of highly protected infrastructures are breached. More often than not, when security attacks happen on organizations, investigative reports only reveal the less intrusive details, and avoid disclosing confidential information that may impact IT security.