Dark Entry: How Adversaries Slip Past Army Cyber Defenses

Description

Nation-state actors are infiltrating Army networks through persistent cyber intrusions, exploiting trusted systems while your defenses remain clueless. The brutal truth: your security tools are failing, and misconceptions about ‘secure’ infrastructure fuel the crisis.

This session dismantles five deadly myths falsely accepted as cyber resilience and actionable tactics to fight back.

•Firewalls? Breached daily by sophisticated adversaries.
•NOC/SOC dashboards? Buried in noise, blind to critical threats.
•Trusted devices? Backdoors for enemy entry.
•Bots and non-human identities? Outnumbering humans, dodging zero trust.
•Classic encryption? Obsolete against post-quantum attacks.

We’ll dissect how adversaries exploit these gaps, from trojanized supply chain hardware to stealthy AI-driven attacks, including China’s covert cellular devices in solar inverters (2025) and the FrostyGoop malware targeting industrial control systems (2024), as highlighted by last year’s AFCEA Technet Augusta panel on OT breaches.

You’ll leave this power session with direct, actionable steps to fix them, from redesigning segmentation strategies and tightening cryptographic controls to rethinking identity, visibility, and automation at speed. Your enemies are already inside, silent and undetected. This session equips you to block these backdoors and take control.

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