Federal Supply Chain Security: Recent Episodes
Mitch
This series of cybersecurity podcasts will focus on Fortress' industry leading services and solutions that protect and reduce an organization's cybersecurity vulnerability. Each podcast will provide insight into Fortress' multi-pronged arsenal for securing an organization's infrastructure against cyber threats and attacks. Fortress solutions protect the organization from the initial cyber supply chain pre-acquisition process through vulnerability and intrusion monitoring through the remediation and reporting process. This is all wrapped into a comprehensive policy and reporting package. www.fortressinfosec.com
Listen to the latest commentary on various Cybersecurity top five news reports. These podcasts are brought to you by Fortress Information Security, the industry leader in Cybersecurity solutions and services .
Today's top 5:
#1 Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside threats, and we’re are not referring to Army Football’s Golden Age in the 1940’s
**#2 Perfect for Halloween: Maybe we aren’t who we present ourselves to be
3 Further recognition of securing the supply chain
4 Former U.S. intel Personnel turn Hackers-for-hire**
#5 Deep pockets will now extend well below the knees
For Episode 13, we take a little different podcast turn in honor of the number 13. Superstitious or not, number 13, for many humans, conjures up either a negative or positive association. For today we will use 13 as a positive step to understanding how one goes about engaging with and implementing a cybersecrity vendors solution. Today we discover the environment. In a near-term future podcast we will discuss the actual game plan based on todays cyber discovery exercise.
FSCS reaches a dozen episodes with this podcast. Today's top five includes:
1. Biden: 'Shooting War' Could Start from a Cyberattack
2. $610M One Of The Biggest Cryptocurrency Heists In History
3. Suing the CISO: SolarWinds Fires Back
4. Could You 'Hear' a Cyberattack Hitting Your Organization?
5. New Attack Uses Image Inversion to Bypass Detection
E11 continues to examine the cybersecurity news events that made up recent headlines. This episode looks at:
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing
- Pegasus, the good and the bad spyware
- Cyber Olympics: No physical audience required
- Cyber rewards for disrupting ransomware attacks
- Chinese data policy reform--calling the kettle black
Please join us for another Cybersecurity podcast brought to you by Fortress Information Security (www.fortressinfosec.com). The following top 5 cyber wild, wild west topics will be reviewed.
1 Shifting toward ransomware's larger targets
2 COBALT attack simulation tool strikes back
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Playing the Blame Game--identifying attack adversaries
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Beyond the ransomware payment money pit
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Another watchdog throws its muzzle into the ring
Once again, we discuss recent top 5 cybersecurity related topics sponsored by Fortress Information Security fortressinfosec.com
This episode's Top 5:
- Water supply attacks, especially in drought worn California
- Carnival Cruise Lines gets submarined again
- 24 hour attack reporting or else
- Cyber-security Executive Order and Zero Trust
- What does your hands-off cyber-attack bucket list look like Biden vs. Putin
Welcome to another cybersecurity global event review. The topics for Episode 8 are:
1 Future Covid impact related to working at home.
2 Apple ransomware attack
3 Infected E-mail job offerings and placement
4 Pentagon's early 5G cybersecurity strategy
5 Quantum computing and cybersecurity--friend or foe?
Episode 7 takes a close look at ransom attacks and addressing their widespread occurrences on a global basis. The Top 5 topics for E7 are:
1 The profitability of ransomware attacks
2 Should organizations pay ransom
3 E-mail exposure to Remote Access Tools (RAT)
4 Ransomware disrupts Ireland's healthcare system
5 Letters of Marque: Resurrecting a historical privateer combat tool
We continue to explore this past weeks cybersecurity news events and provide expert insight into the top five topics.
#1 Don’t tread on me! The Hack-to-Patch quandary and privacy
#2 The always on-line can of worm(holes) Dealing with connected technology obsolescence
#3 And you thought Westinghouse and Bell had a current’cy war! Cryptowallets and IRS hacking
#4 Don't mix politics and sports-a wishful thought:Olymbic Cyber Threats
#5 Oh Johnny boy, the pipes the pipes are calling: Colonial Pipeline attack
The Federal Supply Chain Security Weekly Top 5 podcast is sponsored by Fortress Information Security, the industry leader in Cybersecurity solutions and services . We once again explore cybersecurity related news from various industry cyber activity-the good, the bad and the ugly. Commentary and insight on each news item reported is provided by John Cofrancesco, VP of Business Development at Fortress.
The current top five cyber news events includes:
#1 Pentagon gives control of millions of computer addresses to an unknown company
#2 SolarWinds, Microsoft hacks prompt focus on zero-trust security
#3 Et tu Apple
**#4 The Ease of Tracking Mobile Phones of U.S. Soldiers in Hot Spots
5 DC Police Confirms cyberattack after ransomware gang leaks data**
Once again, this Fortress Information Security sponsored podcast explores a top five list of cybersecurity news. The top five for the current podcast includes:
#1 Army Cyber War Games
#2 The Cyber-physics gets more intriguing
#3 Multi-target attack shotgun approach
**#4 The US is NOT the only target for nefarious cyber activity
5 The OPM Breech still has a pulse**
E3 continues to examine five highlighted cybersecurity news events from the previous week with insight by John Cofrancesco VP of Business Development at Fortress Information Security.
It’s been another exciting and invasive cyber security week. The bad actors and states keep pounding at the global security gates, thus reinforcing Fortress’ charter to identify and protect organizations from cyber security vulnerabilities. Join us as we discuss current happenings, news releases and all things cyber during the John and Mitch short weekly review.
"You ought to know what's going into the assets you're putting on to your network and you ought to make sure that the people you're buying from, the things you're buying from them, and the software that will ultimately go onto those things are safe for you and your network."
Speaker: John Cofrancesco VP of Business Development Fortress Information Security
This is Fortress Information Security's inaugural podcast. Fortress is a leader in assisting organizations that value their technology assets and data, and recognize the intricacies of managing their cybersecurity efforts. Today, you will learn how Fortress can provide a holistic services and solutions approach that can lead your organization from cyber policy determination, through supply chain pre-acquisition vendor assessment, through infrastructure vulnerability detection and finally through comprehensive, on-going remediation and reporting. You will be amazed by the protection provided by the Fortress approach. www.fortressinfosec.com