Shadow IT Makes People More Vulnerable to Phishing, (Wed, Nov 10th)

Shadow IT is a real problem in many organizations. Behind this term, we speak about pieces of hardware or software that are installed by users without the approval of the IT department. In many cases, shadow IT is used because internal IT teams are not able to provide tools in time. Think about a user who needs to safely exchange files with partners and no tool is available. A change request will be created to deploy one but, with the lack of (time|money|resources), the project will take time. Unfortunately, the user needs the tool now, so an alternative path will be used like a cloud file sharing service.

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(Ab)Using Security Tools & Controls for the Bad, (Mon, Nov 8th)

As security practitioners, we give daily advice to our customers to increase the security level of their infrastructures. Install this tool, enable this feature, disable this function, etc. When enabled, these techniques can also be (ab)used by attackers to perform nasty actions.

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