Backdoors & Breaches: How Talos is helping humanitarian aid NGOs prepare for cyber attacks
Summary: Cisco Talos threat researcher Joe Marshall worked with the Cisco Crisis Response team and NetHope to create an NGO-specific expansion deck for the card-based tabletop exercise Backdoors & Breaches, presented at the 2023 NetHope Global Summit. The cards are modeled on real events and address technical, political, and logistical challenges NGOs face during cyber attacks, and Talos later partnered with NGO-ISAC on a U.S.-specific deck.
What you should know: The source states that limited donor and grant dollars leave NGOs with little or no cybersecurity funding, and that public sector offensive actors, mercenary spyware organizations, and state-sponsored actors exploit this gap to target organizations assisting the most vulnerable people.
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