Precautions, preparations, and resilience against cybercrime and hacktivism.
Nov 6, 2023
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Joe Nocera from PwC discusses the Global Digital Trust Insights survey and SEC's cybersecurity disclosure rules. Topics include call center attacks, data and identity decoupling, cyber front in the Hamas-Israeli war, hacktivism, TASS case, and TOITOIN Trojan.
Implementing Cybersecurity First Principles and follow-on strategies like zero trust and automation can help reduce the impact of cyber events.
Effective measures to separate legitimate callers from fraudulent ones are crucial in combating fraud attacks on call centers in the financial industry.
Deep dives
Importance of Cybersecurity First Principles
The podcast highlights the significance of Cybersecurity First Principles, emphasizing the need to reduce the probability of material impact due to cyber events in the next few years. The speaker mentions follow-on strategies such as zero trust, automation, resilience, intrusion kill chain prevention, and risk forecasting.
Fraud Attacks on Call Centers
The podcast discusses how fraud attacks on call centers in the financial industry are on the rise. These attacks involve tactics like spoofed phone numbers and social engineering, with fraudsters targeting call centers to gain access to and take over accounts. Effective measures to separate legitimate callers from fraudulent ones are crucial.
Decoupling for Cloud Security
The podcast explores the concept of decoupling in cloud security, which aims to increase privacy by limiting the amount of information cloud services have access to. This involves organizational and functional decoupling, dividing data among organizations and layers of software. The goal is to prevent breaches from posing a fundamental threat to sensitive data.
A precautionary shutdown at a major US mortgage lender. Call centers as targets. A push to decouple data and identity. The cyber front in the Hamas-Israeli war. Hacktivism and state-sponsored cyberattacks against Israel. The instructive case of TASS and managing influence operations. Deepen Desai from Zscaler talking about the TOITOIN Trojan. Our guest is Joe Nocera, of PwC sharing their latest Global Digital Trust Insights survey and the impact of the SEC's new cybersecurity disclosure rules. And cybercrime on the side of Ukraine (or at least, cybercrime against Russia).
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