Security News > 2022 > November > The five cyber attack techniques of the apocalypse

Webinar This year's RSA Conference saw SANS security experts gather to identify and discuss five of the most dangerous cyber attack techniques identified in the first half of the year.

Katie Nickels, SANS Certified Instructor and Director of Intelligence for Red Canary, shares her tips on now best to detect and respond to attacks that hide behind legitimate cloud services to bypass firewalls and proxies.

The "Ghost Backup" Attack: Dr. Johannes Ullrich, Dean of Research at SANS Technology Institute identifies a type of attack that uses to a malicious backup job to replicate sensitive information on a hacker-controlled storage device.

Hear how simple steps like password management, device reboot and avoiding any temptation to click on a random url can reduce our own personal attack surface.

Rob Lee, Chief Curriculum Director and Faculty Lead at SANS Institute analyses the risk of hackers adding their skills to a government's cyber warfare arsenal.

These are just the five most dangerous types of attacks identified in 2022 - 2023 might look very different.

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