Nick Desler

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Nick Desler is a Corporate Sales Representative at AttackIQ, where he manages all global renewal business for the company. In his careeer at AttackIQ, Nick has worked with a broad array of major U.S. government agencies and Fortune 500 companies to leverage AttackIQ and adopt a threat-informed defense strategy to achieve cybersecurity readiness against attacks. Nick also helps produce the company’s Think Bad, Do Good podcast and contributes to AttackIQ’s public communications about how organizations use the AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform to validate their cybersecurity effectiveness and achieve real security outcomes. Nick received his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, where he studied Urban Planning and Public Policy, and he currently lives in Austin, TX, where he coaches high school varsity basketball in his spare time. 
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Regulatory Revolution: Redefining Global Cybersecurity through Performance-Driven Standards
Cybersecurity Policy

Regulatory Revolution: Redefining Global Cybersecurity through Performance-Driven Standards

The landscape of global cybersecurity is undergoing a seismic shift, marked by a fervent departure from traditional compliance-based strategies towards a new era of performance-based fortification. Spearheaded by dynamic changes in the regulatory frameworks of powerhouse economies like the US and EU, this evolution aims not just for compliance checkboxes but tangible security outcomes that defy mounting threats and historical failures in defense mechanisms.
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Tainted Defenses: Emulating Gallium’s Operation Tainted Love
AttackIQ Flex

Tainted Defenses: Emulating Gallium’s Operation Tainted Love

Though the band Soft Cell may be considered a one-hit wonder with their 1981 hit song “Tainted Love”, the same cannot be said for Gallium, a Chinese-based threat actor that has continued to wreak havoc in the Middle Eastern telecommunications sector for over a decade now. Their most recent cyberespionage campaign? Operation Tainted Love.
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Combatting Kimsuky and Safeguarding National Intelligence
AttackIQ Flex

Combatting Kimsuky and Safeguarding National Intelligence

In the covert realm of cyberspace, a formidable adversary has emerged – a state-sponsored, North Korean group known as Kimsuky. Their clandestine operations are not motivated by profit, but by the pursuit of state secrets and strategic intelligence for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPKR).
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Emulating Sogu/PlugX: The Sophistication of Malware Behaviors
AttackIQ Flex

Emulating Sogu/PlugX: The Sophistication of Malware Behaviors

If you’ve at all followed the work of AttackIQ’s Adversary Research Team (ART) in recent years, you’re well aware of their relentless pursuit for actionable, incisive, quantitative, and cutting-edge insights into the art (no pun intended) of adversary emulation.
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Content Filtering: Your Network’s Digital Bouncer
AttackIQ Flex

Content Filtering: Your Network’s Digital Bouncer

As newer and more sophisticated threats continue to enter today’s cyber landscape, content filtering remains a tried-and-true tool that aids organizations in threat prevention, regulatory compliance, network security and policy enforcement by controlling and managing the type of content users can access or share based on defined criteria. Making sure these policies work is critical in preventing insider threats and maintaining compliance with corporate usage policies.
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The Resilience of Endpoint Antivirus (AV)
AttackIQ Flex

The Resilience of Endpoint Antivirus (AV)

In the ongoing battle against cyber threats, the synergy between Endpoint Antivirus (AV) software and a cutting-edge solution like AttackIQ Flex plays a pivotal role in fortifying your defenses.
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Defend as One: UK Cyber Security Strategy for Health and Adult Social Care to 2030
Breach and Attack Simulation

Defend as One: UK Cyber Security Strategy for Health and Adult Social Care to 2030

The UK Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) recently released their “…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Monitoring and Testing for Living-Off-the-Land Binaries
TTPs

Hiding in Plain Sight: Monitoring and Testing for Living-Off-the-Land Binaries

For malicious actors, opportunity can be found in the mundane. As adversaries continue to refine their approach with newer and more sophisticated methods to perform malicious activity, it is critical for detection engineers to stay up to date in the latest threat intelligence and adversary behaviors to monitor.
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A Year of Impact: AttackIQ’s Applied Research in Threat-Informed Defense
Center for Threat-Informed Defense

A Year of Impact: AttackIQ’s Applied Research in Threat-Informed Defense

Reactive to Preactive. Atomic to Anatomic. Lists to Graphs. Simulation to Emulation. To be prepared for the next attack, defenders must adapt and shift their focus to a threat-informed defense, to think like the adversary, and to test their security programs in a realistic manner.
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