From fighting the ever-present ransomware threat to securing cloud infrastructures to honing identity management practices, the past year’s showcase of (ISC)² webinar topics was wide-ranging and thought-provoking.
A cursory look at the topics we tackled throughout 2022 provides a reflection of the activity in the cyber landscape and the threats that weighed most heavily on cybersecurity professionals. We asked attendees to rate the webinars they attended, and here’s what we found:
North America
Email threats were prominent on the minds of cybersecurity professionals over the past year, as evidenced by highest-ranked webinar, Incredible Email Hacks You'd Never Expect. The session served as a reminder that email remains a primary attack vector, involving more than phishing attempts and malware downloads. Other methods, such as remote password hash captures, clickjacking and silent malware launches were also covered in this session.
The second highest-ranked session was Hacking the Hacker: Assessing and Addressing Cyber Defense Weaknesses, which focused on foiling hackers before they even have a chance to strike. Strategies that turn organizations into hard targets were discussed.
Ranked third in North America was a session titled Your Ransomware Hostage Rescue Guide. The webinar covered new ransomware strains, how to tell if an organization is infected and what to do if it is, and how to implement protection methods.
Additional highly ranked seminars included:
- Ransomware, Ransom-war and Ran-some-where
- 2022 Application Protection Report: Data Breaches, Cloud Incidents and APTs
- Levers of Human Deception: The Science & Methodology Behind Social Engineering
- Securing Modern Applications: Serverless, Containers and Cloud
- Unmasking Venom Spider- the Hacker Behind Golden Chickens Malware
EMEA
Rise of the Machines: The New Identity Threat received the highest marks from attendees in the EMEA region. The webinar covered compromise, misuse and fraud of machine identities as prime attack vectors for hackers. The session included a discussion on how errors lead to outages that cost millions of dollars in lost revenue and erode customer trust.
Next on the list in the region was a session titled Rethink Your Approach to Cloud Native Security, which covered the top five cloud-native risks and shared research on the importance of identifying risks early in the DevOps process.
Ranked third in the region was the webinar LIVE Ransomware Crisis Simulation with You in Control. Attendees were presented with a cyberattack scenario as it unfolded and asked to participate in the decision-making involved in the response.
Other highly ranked sessions included:
- How Fast is Your Attack Surface Growing?
- Between the Chair and the Keyboard
- The Power of Open-Source Tools for Network Detection and Incident Response
- Nowhere to Hide: Insights from the CrowdStrike OverWatch Threat Hunting Team
- Best Practises for Container and Kubernetes Security
- Secure Remote Access To Applications With A Zero Trust Approach
APAC
A seminar on The First Line of Defense for Networks garnered the highest score in the APAC region. The session focused on how organizations should use DNS in their first line of defense as the cyberattack surface expands thanks to digital transformation.
The second-highest ranked webinar in the region was EMEA’s top-ranked session, Rise of the Machines: The New Identity Threat.
Coming in third was Prioritise application vulnerabilities using runtime intelligence, a session that focused on identifying vulnerabilities that are actually exposed at runtime and how to shorten an organization’s list of vulnerabilities.
Also highly ranked in the region were the following sessions: