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Security Hot Takes: Rackspace Breach

This course discusses the Rackspace ransomware attack by the suspected PLAY threat actor group.

Aaron Rosenmund - Pluralsight course - Security Hot Takes: Rackspace Breach
by Aaron Rosenmund
Bri Frost - Pluralsight course - Security Hot Takes: Rackspace Breach
by Bri Frost

What you'll learn

In this course, Security Hot Takes: Rackspace Breach, we will discuss the Rackspace ransomware attack. We will discuss the different vulnerabilities, steps, and work-arounds the attackers took to get into the network and their actions afterwards. We will also highlight their techniques and determine what organizations can do to integrate this intel and mitigate these actions.

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About the authors

Aaron Rosenmund - Pluralsight course - Security Hot Takes: Rackspace Breach
Aaron Rosenmund

Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation.

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Bri Frost - Pluralsight course - Security Hot Takes: Rackspace Breach
Bri Frost

Bri works as the Director of Security and IT Operations Curriculum and Research at Pluralsight creating cybersecurity training content. With a wealth of knowledge as an author of Pluralsight training content, she infuses a "red-team" or attacker-focused mindset into her teachings to grasp security concepts and defense strategies effectively.

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