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Abstract
This talk will cover some of the most advanced attacks that are in the public domain, mostly attributed in public by commercial organizations. This talk will give a whirlwind tour of some of the high end of threat activity to set out a context of changing cybersecurity landscape.
The second part will talk about what controls we apply in Government that help defend against the most advanced attacks. The spoiler warning here is that most of these are not actually really fancy advanced and complex stuff, it's the things that people already know they should do, but are hard to do.
I'll cover a few different things, such as requiring MFA for everyone, reducing your administrative accounts, securing your endpoints effectively, along with a bonus tip around defending your CI systems.
You'll walk away from this talk with a better appreciation of why security matters, and some of the simple but hard things that you should be doing in your enterprise and application system stacks to ensure that you are a hard target.
QCon London 2024 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Part of the track
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