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🔍 Breaking the Illusion: Confronting Cybersecurity’s Biggest Fallacies 🔍
Think you know the route a hacker might take? Think
again! In this eye-opening Threat Talk, Lieuwe Jan Koning dives into the critical fallacies of cybersecurity with top experts Fleur van Leusden, CISO and host of CISO Praat, and Jeroen Scheerder.

✨ Fleur unpacks one of the industry’s biggest blind spots: the heavy reliance on user awareness as a defense mechanism. While user education has its place, she argues it’s not enough to withstand today’s sophisticated threats. Instead, Fleur and Jeroen explore the essential need for technical controls and resilient systems that go beyond awareness alone.
🔥 Rethink conventional strategies, dissect the recent CrowdStrike auto-update disaster, the XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094), and a UNIX CUPS vulnerability 🖨️—revealing why proactive, layered defenses are the only way forward.
Don’t miss this essential discussion on the true foundations of cybersecurity! 🛠️🔒
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🗺️ Explore the Hack's Route in Detail 🗺️
Our exclusive infographic maps out the step-by-step tactics hackers. Perfect for IT teams and Information Security Officers.
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Show Notes

🔍 Breaking the Illusion: Confronting Cybersecurity’s Biggest Fallacies 🔍

Think you know the route a hacker might take? Think again! In this eye-opening Threat Talk, Lieuwe Jan Koning dives into the critical fallacies of cybersecurity with top experts Fleur van Leusden, CISO and host of CISO Praat, and Jeroen Scheerder.

✨ Fleur unpacks one of the industry’s biggest blind spots: the heavy reliance on user awareness as a defense mechanism. While user education has its place, she argues it’s not enough to withstand today’s sophisticated threats. Instead, Fleur and Jeroen explore the essential need for technical controls and resilient systems that go beyond awareness alone.

🔥 Rethink conventional strategies, dissect the recent CrowdStrike auto-update disaster, the XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094), and a UNIX CUPS vulnerability 🖨️—revealing why proactive, layered defenses are the only way forward.

Don’t miss this essential discussion on the true foundations of cybersecurity! 🛠️🔒

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🗺️ Explore the Hack's Route in Detail 🗺️ Our exclusive infographic maps out the step-by-step tactics hackers. Perfect for IT teams and Information Security Officers.

https://on2it.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Infographic-security-fallacies.pdf


đź‘• Receive your Threat Talks T-shirt https://threat-talks.com/breaking-the-illusion-exposing-security-fallacies/

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