Cyber Mayday and the Day After

CHAPTER 9The Road to Recovery

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

–Martin Luther King, Jr.

In a span of a month, Israel faced multi-pronged cyber incidents across the engineering, food, and education sectors. The Israeli cyber headquarters detected that hackers had triggered a vulnerability that was installed in a number of Israeli engineering subsidiaries across different countries. They were stealing sensitive information and sending it to an external IP address every week.

Additionally, a large food factory discovered a vulnerability that compromised their external services and could cause a toxic substance leak in the event of an incident. Finally, a huge academic center's server was shut down by a hacker who exploited a known vulnerability in a VPN product, and gained access to the organization.

CYBER MINDSETS FROM A WAR ZONE

Doron Sivan is one of the founders and the board chairman of the Israeli high-tech industry MadSec, a leading cybersecurity consulting company. He is the former CEO of Cronus Cyber Technologies.

Doron highlights those three cyber incidents and the work needed to tighten their defenses in the space of a short few weeks. He emphasizes that, for any chance of a healthy recovery, having a proactive mindset is important.

Doron shared those experiences while missiles were fired overhead in a span of two weeks, as happened in May 2021. MadSec usually ...