The PowerShell scripting is a feature of the Windows operating system created to automate system administration tasks. In recent years, PowerShell has become a major tool used by hackers to gain a foothold inside an organization’s network. This training hopes to reverse the trend by teaching PowerShell techniques to computer security defenders to help gather information regarding potential security breaches in their computer network. You will learn PowerShell scripts that will help the triage and investigate possible computer attacks.

The PowerShell scripting is a feature of the Windows operating system created to automate system administration tasks. In recent years, PowerShell has become a major tool used by hackers to gain a foothold inside an organization’s network. This training hopes to reverse the trend by teaching PowerShell techniques to computer security defenders to help gather information regarding potential security breaches in their computer network. You will learn PowerShell scripts that will help the triage and investigate possible computer attacks.

“Ready for Battle” – and my plan is first start with a sort of state of the union on what we see in Cybercrime today (lots of eye catching stories and figures) – and then coming around to the last 10 mins focusing on the whole area of learning skills and developing yourself in InfoSec (Getting Battle Ready)

Cybersecurity nowadays is not only a technical challenge, it is also a behavioral challenge. As long as managers and employees can provide access to critical assets, systems and data, attackers will be targeting them through social engineering schemes in order to acquire this access. Those that have access to technology and organizational assets have also become responsible for the protection of those assets.

Recent threat landscape reports show consistently, that today hackers prefer attacking humans instead of systems. That’s because it is simpler. While technology keeps advancing and security systems become stronger and more complicated to compromise, human psychology has remained the same over centuries and is thus easier to exploit. This is where weaponized psychology starts becoming a tool employed to infiltrate organizations in the public and private sectors, to steal sensitive information, and to help attackers breach organizational security. The stimulus response effect in human vulnerabilities is consistent, and exploiting these vulnerabilities is consistently successful. In addition, it is often a low cost, low risk, and high reward approach.

This talk discusses the social domain involved in cybersecurity and the threat of social engineering. It will provide an understanding on the mechanisms and modus operandi of social engineering and explain the concept of weaponized psychology. It will also discuss the ways in which attackers elicit information that assist them in initiating or delivering an attack. The talk will include case studies and lessons learned on the use of weaponized psychology from the fields of business and human intelligence operations (HUMINT). Recommend ations and defense mechanisms will conclude this presentation.

In the current world, criminals use new technologies to commit cyberattacks against governments, businesses and individuals. These crimes know no borders, either physical or virtual, and can cause serious harm and pose very real threats to victims worldwide.

Traditional forms of crime have also evolved as criminal organizations turn increasingly to the Internet to facilitate their activities and maximize their profit in the shortest time. These ‘cyberenabled’ crimes are not necessarily new but they have taken on a new online dimension.

Cybercrime is progressing at an incredibly fast pace, with new trends constantly emerging. INTERPOL together with Police from around the World must therefore work together to keep pace with new technologies, to understand the possibilities they create for criminals and how they can be used as tools for fighting cybercrime.

The computing landscape promises a lot of challenges for the internetusing public. As an organization’s first line of defense, IT professionals need to have a deep understanding of these issues. What can they learn from the past? What can they do now to prepare for, withstand , and quickly recover from cybersecurity threats? What possible risks should they expect from emerging trends and technologies?

In the fight to keep the connected world safe and secure, today's cyber defenders need to gear up and be battleready, anytime, anywhere.