Agenda

Incident response 2020: Lessons learned from recent investigations and incidents

Wed Oct 28 / 12:20 - 12:55 CEST
07. Bart Vrancken (NCSC-NL) - Cyber Security Specialist

Bart Vrancken (NCSC-NL)

Cyber Security Specialist

Ransomware is by no means a new phenomenon. The first known instance of ransomware dates back to the year 1989. Known as the AIDS Trojan or PS Cyborg. And over the years it has become an increasingly favorite tool in the criminal toolset. For years it was mostly aimed at the home user who would pay up just to gain back access to the holiday family pictures they has just lost because of some nasty peace of malware. These days however the main target for these criminal actors is you. The private and public sector of large organizations and with that an increasing impact.

In this presentation we will outline several different cases we as the NCSC have been involved in over the past 2 or so years. We’ll show you the challenges a victim organization faces and how we as NCSC deal with these type of incidents. We will go through the challenges you face when performing incident response on ransomware. What works? What doesn’t? What are the lessons learned?



Bart Vrancken is a Cyber Security Specialist at NCSC-NL. As a member of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of the Dutch central government, he is responsible for operational coordination in case of major ICT crisis, ICT threats and cyber security incidents. In his spare time, Bart has written the base of the open source AbuseIO system for abuse management and communication and build a large IoT network covering his home town.