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Solarwinds - Cyber attack of the decade

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Mr. Aniket Amdekar
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So much remains unknown about what is now being called the Sunburst hack, the cyberattack against U.S. government agencies and corporations. U.S. officials widely believe that Russian state-sponsored hackers are responsible. The attack gave the perpetrators access to numerous key American business and government organizations. The immediate effects will be difficult to judge, and complete accounting of the damage is unlikely. However, the nature of the affected organizations alone makes it clear that this is perhaps the most consequential cyberattack against the U.S. to date. The SolarWinds breach is a case study in how attackers can subvert a widely used piece of software to turn it to their advantage. In this discussion, we aim to cover how it happened, how the perpetrators did it, and what can be done to prevent incidents like this from happening again.

Agenda for the session:
  • Understanding the Sunburst hack, a cyber-attack against the US government.
  • How did it happen?
  • How did the perpetrators manage to get access?
  • What can be done to prevent such cyber-attacks?

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Aniket Amdekar is a cyber security professional with 15 + years of experience in cyber security. He has worked with companies like Microsoft, Walmart, Akamai etc. He has led multiple investigations in the corporate world, and defended against attacks like Phishing, DDOS, Credentials Stuffind, Bot attacks. Over the past 2 years, as a senior manager information security he has been leading a cyber security team of 30+ professionals. He is also passionate about teaching and has been teaching the Advanced Cyber Security Professional course from Stanford for the past 2 years. In Great Learning he leads the efforts for developing new programs and courses on Cyber Defence.

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