The massive escalation of cyber-attacks and subsequent continued successful breaches necessitates that security professionals take a strategic pause. Current cyber defensive operations continue to suffer from protection failures and missed attacker incursions resulting in significant economic loss and/or degradation of capabilities.

To combat WannaCry ransomware, identify your attack surface, contain, and test against known threats.

Covert communications revolves around the idea that many attackers and malware authors will try to hide the very fact that they are communicating, along with the channel involved.