Running Away From Zombies and Better Protecting Infrastructures

“Being able to rapidly detect and evict threats is necessary in the modern enterprise to avoid regulatory and legal penalties while protecting confidential data or trade secrets,” says Kayne McGladrey, CISSP (@kaynemcgladrey), cybersecurity strategist at Ascent Solutions.

“In this episode, we’re talking with Kayne McGladrey about cybersecurity, cyberterrorism and how to defend against these attacks at the personal, corporate, and national levels. I’ve been working on research for my next book and I knew that I had to talk to him to see what we could do to defend against this new and pernicious form of war.”

Kayne and Tom talk with Joe Evangelisto from Tango Analytics about the interesting and stressful scenario where his 3PAO lost its accreditation. Of course Kayne tackles yet another beer that elicited a memorable response.

When it comes to modern technology, everything is a compromise between convenience and security. Everyone wants fast access to the internet, which is why Wi-Fi is everywhere. But how secure is your home Wi-Fi router? What can you do to protect your network? Something you rarely hear these days is that as long as you follow a few common-sense and easily implemented best practices, you probably have very little to worry about.

“It’s low effort for them. Once they set up the subscription and unless the subscription is canceled, they don’t have to do any other work and they can resell access to that subscription,” he said. “So it’s a guaranteed line of profit for them until somebody goes and notices there’s been a problem.”

Criminals typically resell access to the services on secondary markets, McGladrey said. Criminals may resell a streaming service that’s normally $10 per month for $5, netting the thieves $5 monthly. While a single crime is not that profitable, there have been cases where groups have reaped millions of dollars by charging small amounts to hundreds of thousands of consumers, he said.

This was the 7th series of WebForum which was in line with this year’s International CyberSecurity Awareness Month theme “See you in cyber – #becybersmart” held on 28th October 2022.