The CyberWeek with the Captain | Ep. 4

Two hours. That’s the window many people still think of as comfortable when an incident is underway. In this fourth episode of The CyberWeek the Captain brings the figures that dismantle it. According to CrowdStrike’s report, the average time an attacker needs to move from one system to another inside your network has dropped from sixty-eight minutes to twenty-two. And initial access, that first foot in the door, is being achieved in little over two minutes.

Translated: in two hours a group has walked into your house, had a Coca-Cola, put on Netflix and, on top of that, bought a few films on your account. The entry vector is still, of course, email. The same old phishing, faster and better tuned every time. We wrap up with the evil-doctor story of the week and a domestic clumsiness we all recognise: locking everything with biometrics so zealously that accessing any app then becomes an odyssey. Security, when you overdo it, also turns against you.