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Uplifting Cyber Resilience while adjusting to the “New Normal”
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses around the world operate, and with the majority of employees working from home for the foreseeable future, cyber risks to businesses have increased significantly. As cyber offensive actors seek to exploit the widening attack surface created by the new normal of remote work, businesses must deploy new cyber risk management strategies to protect their operations. At Next Peak our Cyber Defender Network have been out the door helping companies meet the new challenges of remote work, and as we have started to push our thoughts to clients we wanted to share some ideas on how companies can adapt their cyber risk management strategies to protect business operations. Cyber Risks Amplified: growing attack
Leveraging Operational Collaboration to Defend US Cyberspace
Last Friday Next Peak Co-Founder Greg Rattray led an Evil Minds Workshop that brought together technology experts from the private sector, government, and academia to discuss the most likely technological trends that will shape a major cyber- attack in the year 2025. This will be the first in a series of posts exploring scenarios from the workshop, where we imagine what the next major cyber-attack will look like, the likely technological drivers, and potential areas for operational collaboration. Greg serves as the current Executive Director of the New York Cyber Task Force, which is hosted by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. This second iteration of the Task Force was installed at the beginning of 2020, and it
CSIS Cyber Leaders Series: How Can Ukraine Win the Cyber War? A Conversation with Dr. Greg Rattray
What is it like to simultaneously fight a cyber war and a shooting war? How does Russia fight in the cyber domain, and how was Ukraine so resilient? What lessons can the United States and allies learn from that resilience?
Case Study of Cyber-Resilience in Wartime: Lessons from Ukraine’s Energy Sector
On January 25th, 2024, a major Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack temporarily disabled the digital infrastructure of Naftogaz Group, Ukraine’s largest state-owned energy company. On the same day, an attack took other major companies offline—including the national postal service provider Ukrposhta,
Securing the Backbone of Artificial Intelligence: Protecting Data Centers
| By Seungmin (Helen) Lee | With the explosion in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers to support the exponential integration of AI into businesses, operations, governments, and daily lives, the cybersecurity of AI data centers is becoming increasingly
Korea’s Evolving AI Regulations
| By Seungmin (Helen) Lee | As AI innovation and development took off in South Korea, so did unethical and unreliable use of the technology. The country’s AI legal framework that passed in December 2024 was designed to place guardrails
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Intelligent Cyber Research: On Geopolitical Cyber Risk Across Industries
Most organizations now accept that geopolitical risk translates into cyber risks. Cyber incidents have ranked as the number one global business risk for multiple years, outpacing natural catastrophes, regulatory disruption,
Next Peak’s Intelligent Cyber Research offers new Geo Cyber Risk Index
Next Peak’s Intelligent Cyber Research (ICR), inspired by co-founder Greg Rattray’s vision to merge geopolitical intelligence with cyber insight, is ready to empower organizations to make informed, forward-looking decisions. On
Next Peak Launches “Intelligent Cyber Research”
For the last decade, Next Peak co-founder Greg Rattray has been developing an idea around his passion for the intersection of geopolitics and cyber. Today, as geopolitical risks are increasing