Heather Couk is here to keep your spirits up during a cyber emergency, even if it takes the “Rocky” music
Summary: Heather Couk, an incident response commander with Cisco Talos Incident Response, jokingly threatens to play the "Rocky" theme "Gotta Fly Now" on team meetings and client calls to lift energy during ransomware engagements and tabletop exercises. She double-majored in criminal justice and computer science at Missouri Southern State University, spent most of her career as a security and email administrator at a manufacturing company, and now expects remote software to be a major attacker focus in the coming year.
Key Takeaway: Couk's point on remote access software is concrete: since more workers went remote after the COVID-19 pandemic, adversaries can silently infiltrate a targeted network by stealing just one set of legitimate login credentials - so how those tools are used and deployed in your environment is the exposure to get a handle on.
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