Security Hot Takes: Mid-year Review 2024
This course examines recent trends which suggest nation-state sponsored threat actors are increasingly targeting network edge devices.
What you'll learn
In this course, Security Hot Take: Mid-year Review 2024, we discuss observations which indicate that nation-state sponsored threat actors are moving away from traditional initial access vectors toward exploitation of zero-day and known vulnerabilities in public-facing appliances such as firewalls, enterprise virtual private networks (VPN), and mail server software. We’ll also arm you with some practical controls that you can begin implementing today to help mitigate these attacks and reduce their impact.
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About the authors
Michael Teske is a principal security author with Pluralsight helping people build their skills toolkit. Michael has 25+ years of experience in the IT Ops/Cloud/Cybersecurity industry including 17 of those years as an IT instructor at a technical college, focusing on Microsoft server infrastructure, security and automation. Michael attained his MBA with an emphasis in Computer Information System Security several years ago. Michael still keeps up with the industry as an independent consultant in ... more
Matt is a cyber security author and researcher here at Pluralsight. A certified penetration tester and incident handler, he created Pluralsight's CompTIA Pentest+ Specialized Attacks courses as well our courses on wireless, ICS/OT and hardware hacking. Matt has also helped to build our security labs portfolio; labs that help you get hands-on to understand the threats and vulnerabilities your organization faces today. With a background in Chemical Engineering, Matt's focus is on the security ... more