03.2022 . Spotlight
How CEOs Can Pass The Cybersecurity Leadership Test
PricewaterhouseCoopers’s 2022 Global Digital Trust Insights Report surveyed 700 CEOs and 2900 other C-suite executives on issues related to digital transformation and cybersecurity.
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Dr. Manuel Hepfer
03.2022 . Spotlight
Playing War Games To Prepare Your Leadership Team For A Cyber Attack
In the wake of high-profile cyber-attacks, leadership teams often think, “could it happen to us?”.
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Dr. Manuel Hepfer
02.2022 . Spotlight
Global Incident Report: Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Future cyberattacks on Ukraine may seek to destabilise the country, disrupt information flow, or undermine the population’s will to fight. Several noteworthy cyberattacks have already occurred in Ukraine.
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Dr. Manuel Hepfer
02.2022 . Spotlight
Re-cap: The Untold Story of NotPetya, The Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
What is happening in Ukraine’s cyberspace bears discomforting resemblance to the NotPetya attack from 2017 – called the most devastating cyber attack in history. What can we learn from history?
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Dr. Manuel Hepfer
02.2022 . Spotlight
Mutually Assured Destruction – Does Deterrence Work in Cyberspace?
During the Cold War, the concept of ‘mutually assured destruction’ explained the notion that a nuclear attack from one superpower would be met with a retaliation from another. The concept describes the deterrence of conventional warfare. Can the same principle be used in cyberspace?
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Dr. Manuel Hepfer
01.2022 . Spotlight
Making Sense of the REvil Arrests
The raid and subsequent arrests of members of one of the most prolific ransomware gangs came as a surprise to many observers. Russian officials arrested members of the notorious REvil ransomware group – on the request of the US. In the current high-pressure environment of Ukraine peace talks between the US and Russia, it seems strange that Russia would follow such a request.
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Dr. Manuel Hepfer
01.2022 . Spotlight
How North Korea Tried to Steal $1 Billion
In what is called the most audacious cybercrime that has ever been attempted, a North Korean linked hacker group named Lazarus, tried to steal $1bn from a national bank. How did they attempt it?
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Dr. Manuel Hepfer