Ep. 168 - Security Awareness Series - Lessons Learned From the Attacks on Ukraine with Patrick Laverty
This month, Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Patrick Laverty. Patrick is the Senior Team Lead at Social Engineer, LLC, working with an incredible team of professional social engineers. He was previously a senior penetration tester at Rapid7 and a member of the CSIRT at Akamai. He is a co-organizer of the Layer 8 Conference and is the host of the Layer 8 Podcast on social engineering and OSINT. He lives in Rhode Island with his daughter, dog and two cats. [April 18, 2022] 00:00 – Intro 00:50 – Patrick Laverty intro https://layer8conference.com 02:19 – Intro Links Social-Engineer.com Managed Voice Phishing Managed Email Phishing Adversarial Simulations Social-Engineer channel on SLACK CLUTCH innocentlivesfoundation.org 04:38 – Security Awareness in the world today 05:25 – Malicious Domain Registrations 06:58 – Protecting yourself from false domains 11:24 – CISA Alert / Shields Up 12:36 – Lowering Reporting Thresholds 13:33 – Empowering Security Information Officers 16:50 – Tabletop Exercises 19:20 – Planning for Continuity 21:09 – Beyond the Financial Effects of Ransomware 24:29 – Trying to protect the Healthcare Sector 25:27 – Backup & Recovery Process 28:38 – The source of Ransomware 30:03 – Planning for a Ransomware attack 31:51 – Why your site will be attacked 33:41 – 3 Actionable Tips 35:30 – Book Recommendations Thinking, Fast and Slow– Daniel Kahneman How to Win Friends & Influence People– Dale Carnegie Delivered from Distraction – John Ratey Fixed – Amy Herman Going Pro – Dr Tony Kern 38:20 – Wrap Up 39:18 – Outro www.social-engineer.com www.innocentlivesfoundation.org