Once upon a time, in the grand worldwide web, there lived Red Teaming Hood. When suddenly grandma’s systems got hacked one day, Red Teaming was sent to assess vulnerabilities. She didn’t need to stay on the path; if anything, she tried to find the most vulnerable points with the least known methods that the wolf might have known or invented. She attacked the system from every possible angle by utilising the most updated techniques to gain access to the network. Imbibing the wolf’s mindset, she managed to find the areas susceptible to access, of course, with splendid programming expertise (know-how was the sine qua non of the Red Teaming at 12M).
When she gained access to the network —as it hadn’t been configured correctly, she found the environment in an overwhelmed state with DDoS attacks. The unauthorised access was already granted to granny’s confidential information. She knocked on the gateway anyway; the outrageous and never-enough-to-be-despised wolfie disguised with the hijacked account of grandma answered: “Who is it?”
“The ports are already open, grandma,” said Red Teaming Hood as she answered, “no need for a code, I’m already in”.
“Oh, how lovely,” croaked the brutal animal “, for what do I have this honour?”
“I’ve just brought you some cookies, granny,” then she asked, “by the way, your firewall ports hadn’t been configurated correctly. Is something the matter?”
“No, it is” coughed wolf “all the better to have you around, no need for superfluous details, you see?”
“And your data has not been appropriately encrypted?”
“All the better to share with you, my precious little diamond,” replied the wolf.”And, what is this link you’ve sent me saying urgent?, when I clicked it, there was nothing significant.”
“All the better to capture you as well,” the wolf roared by manifesting his identity.
Off he jumped to her system, but neither he accessed nor found a way of harming her.
Of course, nobody lives happily ever after unless they take updated, relevant precautions in the cyber world. In that sense,this story has just started and to be continued.
It is you, dear grandmas/grandpas who should seek the Red and her brother Blue Teaming Hoods’ guidance. We are on http://12mtech.uk, will be at Cyber Security Expo-Europe on 23-24 November 20211/Stand No:213, Rai/Amsterdam. Please, do not bring any cookies, as we will provide them to you.