Author: Shay Nahari

An IBM research team recently warned that a hacker could easily manipulate emergency systems to get rid of protections or dissemble alerts to warn people of catastrophic events. This has huge implications for the security of our critical national infrastructure (CNI) such as traffic monitoring systems, flood defences and radiation detection. The security threat to our critical national infrastructure (CNI) is becoming a worrying reality. Take the recent erroneous alerts regarding potential missile strikes that caused mass concern in Hawaii and Japan. These should serve as a reminder to immediately evaluate the cyber security procedures used to protect these emergency…

What is a Red Team exercise? If you ask that question to 10 people in the cybersecurity business, you will get 10 different answers. The most succinct definition of a red team exercise and how it plays out in the field with organisations is as follows: ‘An adversarial simulation that allows organisations to detect and respond to targeted attacks.’ Learnings span the gamut from detecting a breach to stopping it, investigating it and preventing future breaches.  The first goal of a red team is to look at people and technology controls in the organisation throughout the exercise. A secondary goal…