The Five Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques

Each year at RSA Conference, SANS provides the authoritative briefing on the most dangerous new attack techniques in use today, what's coming next, and what organizations can do to prepare. Watch previous years' keynote presentations below to hear from SANS subject-matter experts on these threats and learn what steps you can put in place to counter them.

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RSAC 2022

Moderator: Ed Skoudis, President, SANS Technology Institute 

Presenters: 

• Katie Nickels, Certified Instructor and Director of Intelligence, SANS Institute and Red Canary 
• Johannes Ullrich, Dean of Research, SANS Technology Institute 
• Heather Mahalik, DFIR Curriculum Lead and Sr. Director of Digital Intelligence, SANS Institute and Cellebrite 
• Rob T. Lee, Chief Curriculum Director and Faculty Lead, SANS Institute 

Continuing the conversation that started at RSA Conference 2022, SANS instructors will take a fresh look at what they saw as the most dangerous new attack techniques in use today to determine their sustaining relevance, look ahead at what's coming next, and discuss what organizations can do to prepare. In this deeper dive session, experts will give additional information to help get ahead of new attacks.

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RSAC 2021

PART ONE - RECORDED MAY 20, 2021

PART TWO - CONTINUED FROM RSAC 2021 - RECORDED JULY 20, 2021

Watch this two-part keynote presentation. 

Part One: This session provides an authoritative briefing on the most dangerous new attack techniques in use today, what's coming next, and what organizations can do to prepare. 

Part Two: This follow-up session gives organizations additional information to help them prioritize upcoming attack vectors and to get ahead of them.

Moderator: Alan Paller, President - Cyber Talent Institute and Board Member - National Cyber Scholarship Foundation

Panelists:

• Heather Mahalik, DFIR Curriculum Lead - SANS Institute and Director of Digital Intelligence - Cellebrite 
• Ed Skoudis, Director of Cyber Ranges and SANS Institute Fellow
• Johannes Ullrich, Dean of Research - SANS Technology Institute
• Katie Nickels, Certified Instructor - SANS Institute and Director of Intelligence

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RSAC 2020

At the 2020 event, top threats discussed included the proliferation of command and control tools and frameworks, Living off the Land attacks, deep persistence, mobile exploit checkm8 and checkra1n, and threats at the enterprise perimeter.

Part Two - Continued from RSAC 2019 - Recorded April 25, 2019

Watch this two-part keynote presentation. The 2019 list of top threats included accurate predictions of smartphone attacks, DNS manipulation, domain fronting, cloud-on-cloud attacks, and CPU flaws.

Moderator: Alan Paller, Research Director and Founder - SANS Institute

Panelists:

• Heather Mahalik, Director of Forensics Engineering at ManTech and Mobile Forensics Course Director - SANS Institute
• Ed Skoudis, Instructor - SANS Institute
• Johannes Ullrich, Dean of Research - SANS Technology Institute