CyberTalks: a journey into tomorrow's AI, cybersecurity, and ethical hacking | H-FARM
How to deal with the next generation of cyber threats?
The cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving: with the increasingly blurred boundaries between physical and digital and the ambivalent role of AI in strengthening and at the same time making defenses more vulnerable, it is critical to understand these changes in order to address them.
Source: Cost of a Data Breach 2023 report, IBM
They led the discussion:
Vittoria Lazzer, business developer at Retail Reply and former H-FARM College student
David Tancredi, ethical hacker
Leonardo Maccari, associate professor at Ca' Foscari University Venzia and H-FARM College
We discussed
the most pressing cybersecurity threats to companies (massification of attacks with malicious bots) and people (DeepWeb, QR codes, passwords)
blue, red, and purple teams: how "attackers" and "defenders" work together to improve an organization's security processes
the role of AI for offensive and defensive strategies
how one becomes an ethical hacker, what work they do in practice, and how they have evolved from an anarchic attitude to the current context where there is no specific victim
corporate best practices for strengthening cybersecurity