Learnings From The Frontlines- Learning From The Worst

The evolution of Ransomware has led to the World Economic Forum recently citing it as one of the top 5 economic risks facing organizations today. Over the last decade, APT actors and organized criminals deploying Ransomware-as-a-Service models have been responsible for delivering some of the most aggressive, destructive attacks, threatening organizations worldwide.

With Ransomware deployments dominating headlines, senior IT and business leaders are increasingly aware that some of their existing defense strategies are no longer working.

To counteract these fast-evolving attacks, FireEye Mandiant are introducing a 4-step education path dedicated to improving your Ransomware defenses. Delivered by experts on the frontlines of today’s cyber attacks, each session will offer insight into the global threat actors deploying ransomware – their tactics, techniques and procedures – and the steps needed to identify and mitigate the impact of an attack.

The series will conclude with a live Cyber Attack Simulation during which we will guide you through the stages of a real-life ransomware attack.

One of the hardest questions to answer for any organization is “Could we actually detect a ransomware attack before it’s too late?” With attacker sophistication increasing all the time, there is no guarantee that the policies and plans of yesteryear will still work, nor that the products and automated detections will get there in time.

The only way to know for sure is to learn from the worst and carry out a sophisticated cyber-attack wearing the mask of a ransomware group attacker. Using the unmatched Threat Intel, the FireEye Mandiant Red Team have been able to conduct such engagements using the tools and techniques of the world’s leading ransomware threat actors and find those spaces between the defensive dream and risk-filled reality that could cost you dearly.

In this session, our experts reveal some of the results from these engagements which can be adopted into your ongoing security program.