Hack & Defend Summit 2025 Bonus Session: Living Off the Cloud - Responding to Sophisticated Ransom Attacks in the Cloud

Living off the cloud attacks are on the rise. Executing rapid, cloud-native techniques to escalate privileges, move laterally between environments, and access critical assets, attackers are targeting the cloud more effectively than ever.

This session will focus on a real-world living off the cloud attack case study, analyzing a step-by-step account of the attack as it unfolded from attackers’ perspective.

We will then switch gears and rewind the attack, explaining how effective detection and response methodologies could—and should—have prevented every step of the attack. Defeating these threats requires powerful centralized visibility and control of all cloud environments and resources. Our key takeaways will therefore be tailored to leveraging the best methodologies and tools to take back the initiative and stop even the most sophisticated cloud attacks.