Mauritius Chapter – March 2022

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Chapter Overview

Date: Thursday, 31st of March 2022

Time: 15.00 pm – 16.30 pm

Platform: Digital Alliances

Location: Digital Alliances – Microsoft Teams Link – Invite Only

Overall Theme: The ever-changing threat landscape and the challenge of growing attack surface management

The Digital Alliances is a platform created to ensure our communities are enabled to utilise our candid approach to benchmark and to continue collaboration where physical Chapters are restricted

  • 1500

    Welcome Remarks & Joining Time

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    Session Overview

    Session Title: The ever-changing threat landscape and the challenge of growing attack surface management

    Session Leader: Rajiv Seeras, Technology and Information Security Consultant

    Session Synopsis:

    We are living in an ever-evolving cyber threat landscape. Today, cyber adversaries make use of a plethora of sophisticated threats to exploit known and zero-day vulnerabilities. With the advent of internet of things and the rapid convergence of Information Technology and Operational Technology, it becomes an increasing challenge to protect your assets online. With the rapid adoption of digital transformation and cloud technologies, the attack surface of organizations is expanding at an unprecedented rate. Often, organizations are left with vulnerable assets that pose as the weakest links in the security chain.

    In this presentation, we shall cover:-

    1. Ever-changing threat landscape
    2. The challenge of growing attack surface management
    3. The top causes of data breaches
    4. IT/OT security challenge
    5. Vulnerable services
    6. Online tools for hackers
    7. Anatomy of an attack
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    Q&A

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    Action Areas and Next Steps