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Security Hot Takes: Federal Network Breach

by Bri Frost and Aaron Rosenmund

This course discusses a security breach on a Federal Civilian Executive Branch network by a suspected Iranian-sponsored APT group.

What you'll learn

In this course, Security Hot Takes: Federal Network Breach, you'll explore a security breach on a Federal Civilian Executive Branch network by a suspected Iranian-sponsored APT group. You will learn about all of the steps the attackers took to get into the network and their actions afterwards. You will also discover their techniques and what organizations can do to integrate this intel and mitigate these actions.

Table of contents

Security Hot Takes: Federal Network Breach
19mins
Additional Resources
1min

About the authors

Bri Frost has worked in IT and cybersecurity for 7 years with a focus on network pentesting and red team operations. She currently works as the Senior Curriculum Manager at Pluralsight creating the cybersecurity curriculum training content and an author of Pluralsight training content, as well. She holds a bachelor’s degree in InfoSystems and Technologies and holds Security+ and Pentest+ certifications.

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. Leveraging his administration and automation experience, Aaron actively contributes to multiple open and closed source security operation platform projects and continues to create tools and content to benefit the community. As an educator & cyber security researcher at Pluralsight, he is focused on advancing cyber secur... more

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