Curtis Levinson - Vulnerability Asessment A New Paradigm

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Vulnerability Assessment: A New Paradigm

Curtis KS Levinson Private Consultancy and United States Cyber Defense Advisor to NATO NATO/EAPC UNCLASSIFIED

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We Are a World at War     

They are already here, among us and behind us They are already in our systems and networks They are already attacking us They are stealing our most precious of assets : Information In our multiverse of network interconnections, Cyber Attack has become THE unifying common factor of virtually all elements in our contemporary society.

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So what are we protecting? 

We know the network perimeter has been totally breached

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We have no idea of how many network endpoints or where they are

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The network core has been totally breached and infected as well

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The three most misused words in Cybersecurity 

Threat

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Vulnerability

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Risk NATO/EAPC UNCLASSIFIED

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Cloud There is no such thing as THE cloud NATO/EAPC UNCLASSIFIED

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Question: Who uses Anti Virus to protect their systems?

Now, who uses Anti Virus to protect their Social Media?

Threat can never be reduced, it will only increase which means we can only manipulate Vulnerability and Risk

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We need to understand threats and simply learn to remediate around them

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Information Technology     

PCs Servers Virtualization Network Infrastructure aka: Brick and Morter Routers / Switches

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Operational Technology

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Industrial Control Systems / SCADA Medical Systems Manufacturing Cloud Services

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Personal Technology

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Tablets / Smart Phones Medical Wearables Medical Implants Law Enforcement Other Wearables

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