Cyber Incursion – Defence against the Dark Arts

A lesson from the world’s most famous hacker!

Kevin Mitnick is the keynote speaker at Cyber Incursion, on 22 November, 12.30 to 19.30 at The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), an event that will see our own Andy Lilly on the panel for the debate about the dangers of Social Engineering and the Insider Threat.

Learning to think like a hacker is a good strategy for improving your cyber security and many of the best security experts who now wear white hats started out as script kiddies.

As the cyber security threat landscape evolves, we are finding that it is not just government and military type organisations that are under siege. Increasingly we are working with private sector companies that are keen to protect their trade secrets and keep intellectual property secure.

Your intellectual property is highly valuable

Cyber Incursion is aimed at companies that are beginning to understand just how valuable their intellectual property and sensitive customer information is.  Whether it is a takeover or merger that could have implications on stock valuations should the news leak too soon, contract negotiations that you wouldn’t want your competitors to see or even know about, or you need to protect customer information to comply with GDPR, most organisations have some IP that they wouldn’t want to lose or see fall into the wrong hands.

You are the weakest link – the dangers of social engineering

These days, hackers are very clever, or should I say, even cleverer.  They will always go for the weakest link, which is us humans, and their approach will often involve some element of social engineering.  When people are out of the office, working via their mobile devices, they are away from their typical work environment; this may lead them to let their guard down, and this is often a good time to strike.  We’ve all been there – a quick call to a colleague to get a vital piece of information to finish off the contract or document we are working on, or to finalise the date and time for a sensitive meeting. The information exchanged could be very valuable to someone else, but it’s only a quick call – what can go wrong?  Well, plenty!

Don’t get caught out

Your call could be intercepted by an IMSI catcher, also known as a fake base station. Even entry level criminals or script kiddies can access this technology, that enables them to harvest your call and location metadata (who you spoke to or messaged, how long for, etc.), for just a few hundred pounds. Depending on the hack, the details of your conversation could be accessed by the attacker.  Alternatively, while the contents of your call might be encrypted, your metadata may not be protected, and sometimes knowing who you are communicating with, for example during a merger or acquisition, can be every bit as helpful to your competitors, or in the case of celebrities, paparazzi or tabloid journalists.

Cyber Incursion

As well as an opportunity to hear from the world’s most famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick (who was once on the FBI’s Most Wanted list because he hacked into 40 major corporations just for the challenge), Cyber Incursion has a packed agenda covering such topics as:

• AI
• Threat Intelligence
• Internet of Things
• Big Data and Forensics
• Social Engineering and the Insider Threat
• And how they can all have a very real impact on commercial business today!

Register today – there are limited spaces: https://www.cyberincursion.com/