Show Notes
In this episode, Host Ron Eddings teams up with Ivan Fonseca and Nick Cottrell, Cybersecurity Engineers at ThreatLocker, as they break down the anatomy of previous breaches and the attacker’s playbook using MITRE ATT&CK. Ivan and Nick will take you through the defender’s perspective and will also share tools that are commonly used to defend breaches and discuss how Zero Trust can be implemented to better defend organizations.
Impactful Moments:
00:00 - Welcome
01:35 - Introducing guests, Ivan Fonseca and Nick Cottrell
04:39 - 3CX Breach & Supply Chain Attacks
08:10 - Ring Fencing Defense
11:16 - Living Off the Hacker Valley Land
13:06 - From our Sponsor, ThreatLocker
13:56 - Hacker Mindset in the Op
18:45 - Zero Trust, Default Deny
24:23 - Common Attack Vectors
30:09 - 7 Zip is a Russian Application?
32:49 - Learning How to Defend Better
Links:
Connect with our guests, Ivan Fonseca and Nick Cottrell :
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-fonseca-64139222b/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-cottrell-083564165/
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