Software Development in the Context of Cybersecurity & Protection Against Hackers and Cybercrime

SolarWinds Hack: The Invisible Cyber Theft 🌐Software development in the context of cybersecurity & protection against hackers and cybercrime

💡 Topics include:✅ Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)✅ Software vulnerabilities and deployment risks✅ The Kerckhoffs Principle in modern cybersecurity✅ Supply chain attacks as the new risk frontier✅ How to build resilient and secure development structures

❇️ Welcome and a brief introduction to the topic.❇️ SolarWinds Hack – A quick overview of the known facts:

❇️ Explanation of the events surrounding the SolarWinds Hack

Timeline of key discoveries and public disclosures.Who is behind the SolarWinds Hack?❇️ Discussion of the suspected attackers and their motives.

Insights into the investigations and the current situation.How was the cyberattack discovered?❇️ The story behind how the hack was uncovered.

The role of IT security teams and whistleblowers.Details on the "Sunburst" backdoor:Technical analysis of the Sunburst backdoor.How the backdoor works and why it’s so dangerous.❇️ Vulnerabilities in software:

How do software vulnerabilities emerge, and how can they lead to incidents like these?❇️ How secure are our systems and data really?

A critical assessment of current security measures in companies and government agencies.Software vulnerabilities in the development process:Best practices for preventing such weaknesses.❇️ Applying Kerckhoffs's Principle in modern cybersecurity:→ See also: https://rock-the-prototype.com/en/cryptography/kerckhoff-principle/The relevance of Kerckhoffs’s Principle for IT security.How this principle is applied today — and what it means for key secrecy.Maximum IT security and robust protection through transparency:

❇️ Arguments for more transparency in security architecture.- Examples of how transparency can help improve security.- Secure source code – Why deployment and secure data flows are the real battlegrounds of cybersecurity:- Why secure source code matters so much.- Discussion of deployment strategies and secure data flows.

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