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Founder · Packet.Zip
Aamir Lakhani is a leading senior security strategist responsible for providing IT security solutions to major enterprises and government organizations. He creates technical security strategies and leads security implementation projects for Fortune 500 companies, and has designed offensive counter-defense measures for the Department of Defense and national intelligence agencies.
His areas of expertise include adversarial AI, cyber defense, mobile application threats, malware management, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) research, and the dark web. He is the author or contributor of several books, and has appeared on FOX Business News, National Public Radio, and other media outlets as an expert on cybersecurity.
Writing under the pseudonym Packet.Zip, he operates this blog. In its list of 46 Federal Technology Experts to Follow on Twitter, Forbes described Aamir Lakhani as "a blogger, InfoSec specialist, super hero…and all around good guy."
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Industrial cybersecurity specialist James Cabe from CyberX, discusses ICS attacks, OT vs IT, and working for a startup that just got acquired by Microsoft.From missile defense to IoT, we discuss how CyberX works on networks, modern ICS threats, and how ICS attacks are depicted in Hollywood movies. C
Researchers Aamir Lakhani and Anthony Giandomenico discuss the EKANS ransomware and why it was an effective and targetted attack.Listen on your favorite podcast app or on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/drchaos-podcast/ekans-green-eggs-and-ham
Aamir Lakhani and Tony G discuss the latest findings of the 2020 Verizon Data Breach report. From ransomware to passwords dumpers. What does it mean how you should shape your cybersecurity policy? Join us on the latest episode of Packet.Zip Podcast to find out.Listen on SoundCloud by clicking on this
No company wants to think about what it'll do in a crisis, but sometimes they're unavoidable. Whether it's an advanced cyberattack of a situation like COVID-19 that led to an unexpected rise in cybercrime, cybersecurity emergencies happen. If you do find yourself in such a crisis, how do you respond
Dive into this conversation on OT security as Derek Manky and Aamir Lakhani discuss highlights from our recent FortiGuardLabs threat intelligence briefs and the origins of OT-targeted attacks, starting from the beginning with the Stuxnet virus.
Written by Srikant (Sri) RamachandranIn the last article titled Who are you communicating with?, I talked about the importance of gaining visibility into traffic patterns across the enterprise to detect suspicious patterns. In this article, I present the argument for the vital importance of cybersec
Welcome to the world of chaos.In this special episode, we repost audio from a recent interview, where your co-host Packet.Zip, discussing how he got his nickname, common themes around attacks, why he hates working on the principle of assumed breaches, and what people panic about first during a breach
Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC) harnesses the collective resources of technology solutions that connect survivors and responders in crisis. Anthony Giandomenico and I speak with Roger Rustad, Jr. and Bryan Watson about the ITDRC.https://www.packet.zip/post/podcast-cybertroop
Cybersecurity startups are providing excellent opportunities for people who want to create and bring to market new products. They can also be financially rewarding. How do you decide if working for a startup is right for you? Do you understand the real risks and the benefits from a financial and car
Retailers have a lot on their plate amid the coronavirus pandemic. Social distancing regulations have forced many stores to close or move all of their operations online. In the middle of all of this change, cyberattacks are on the rise and targeting retailers.Cybersecurity has always been an issue,
Do you have what it takes to investigate cyber breaches, data exfiltration, and attacks?How does one get started in the career of incident response? Yakov Goldberg, Senior Director of Customer Investigations and Threat Intelligence at Fortinet, speaks to us around his career as an incident response
How do you hire, manage, and interact with the best engineers when they work for you?Join John Jacobs (known as JJ), who is an experienced technology sales professional, having led world-class providers and hardware manufacturers' customers through concept, design, implementation, and support of the