Sophos Lounge

Increasing collaboration between red and blue teams is a vital step in improving cybersecurity. Join this session to hear from a member of the team responsible for keeping Sophos safe from cyberthreats. Michelle will share how the red team vs. blue team mindset has evolved, how to get ‘purple’ teaming conversations started, and why, her team find thinking like an attacker makes them better defenders.

No one suggests that compulsory motor insurance is a bad idea because it encourages people to drive with less care. But when it comes to cyber insurance, sceptics aren't so sure: some people insist that cyber insurance is a major driver behind ransomware attacks, by encouraging lax habits in companies that assume "the insurance will cover it" and emboldening the crooks to demand ever-higher payments. Paul Ducklin talks to Dr Jason Nurse to find out how you can turn cyber insurance to everyone's advantage by using it as a driver to improve your cybersecurity posture.

The well-documented cyberattacks on Kaseya and SolarWinds continue to highlight just how unprepared many organizations are when it comes to defending against supply chain attacks. In this session, Paul and Chet discuss the critical steps organizations need to take to minimize the risk to their supply chain.

Malware isn’t going anywhere. Get under the enemy’s skin with fascinating insights from SophosLabs’ director of threat research. Fraser deep dives into how threats work, shares fresh discoveries from the Sophos Labs team and explores the latest malware trends. Watch this session to get the latest threat updates and to know what you’re up against.

This week, our hosts Wana Tun and Aaron Bugal are discussing the importance of using network data for understanding an attack and how to utilize this data to look for indicators of compromise. They discuss how by combining network operations teams and security operations teams, we can have a better protection and detection capability within an organization.

Our hosts Hywel Morgan chats with Andrew Brandt discuss the impacts of Covid-19 on the cybersecurity industry one year on. As the workforce shifted the techniques and targets of attackers also shifted. In recognition of this changing threat landscape and increase in criminals leveraging on Covid-19 to insight attacks - IT professionals around the world banded to together to share live threat intelligence.

Our hosts Ben Verschaeren and Aaron Bugal discuss some recent data attacks against multinational companies, in one attack 10 Terabytes of data was exfiltrated out from the cloud undetected. They discuss how understanding your baseline is key this will help you detect anomalies and therefore help to prevent nefarious attacks.