Democratized Cyber Attacks: Evolving Threats and Countermeasures By Chris Ray and Bikash Barai

Chris Ray, Security Architect discusses with Bikash Barai co-founder of CISO Platform & Firecompass. The growing democratization of cyber attacks, where ransomware groups are able to rapidly scan the internet and exploit vulnerable systems. It also highlights the challenge organizations face in maintaining visibility over their assets due to decentralization.

 

 

These are kind of connected. So let me summarize. Like, one of the things which we discussed about so far is the attackers are attacking everybody on the Internet. I mean, these attacks are becoming democratized, especially with the ransomware guys. Attacks have become lot faster, right? I mean, unlike earlier today, they can like scan the entire Internet in a day and find out vulnerable systems try to exploit. So we got to be fast as well. And then organizations, as you mentioned, don't know all the assets they have. A lot of things are happening behind the back because of the decentralized power. Right?

Chris Ray, a seasoned professional in the cybersecurity field, brings a wealth of experience from small teams to large financial institutions, as well as industries such as healthcare, financials, and tech. He has acquired an extensive amount of experience advising and consulting with security vendors, helping them find product-market fit as well as deliver cyber security services.

Bikash Barai is the Co-Founder CISO Platform & a Co-Founder of FireCompass, an AI assistant for IT security decision makers. Earlier he founded iViZ an IDG Ventures backed company which was later acquired by Cigital. Barai has done double B.Tech and master’s from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), in computer science (Hons) as well as Architecture. He is passionate about AI, cognitive hacking and attack simulation. He is credited for several innovations in the domain of IT Security and has multiple patents in USPTO under his name. Barai has received recognition from UC Berkeley, Intel, Nasscom, Red Herring, TiE, Fortune 40-under-40 in India, etc. He actively pursues painting and magic and has spoken at various forums like the University of California, Berkeley, Nasscom, DSCI, CISO Platform, NUS Singapore, TiE, TEDx IIM, TEDx IIT, RSA Conference USA, etc.

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