Our friends at The Record talked with Shtokhamer about lessons learned at CERT. The conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
TR: You recently stepped down as executive director of Israel’s National CERT. Which measures or initiatives did you take while at Israel’s CERT that you’re most proud of or were the most impactful?
LS: There have been a lot of things we’ve done the last couple of years. I think one of the most important ones was establishing our national information sharing platform. After a few months it became our immune platform it would help immunize entire organizations in Israel by having a full API for indicators. That’s how we had the possibility, for example, to share indicators by the click of a button, to share it to an API and have it received by monitoring and patching systems in less than a second. In addition to that, we established some new sectorial CERTs. I was the founder of the financial CERT, we have an energy CERT, we
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Dozens of Israeli importers and logistics companies were struck by a severe cyberattack last weekend. The hackers managed to break into the servers of dozens of companies and penetrate Israel s supply chain. The companies that were attacked are among Israel s biggest in the logistics sector and such an attack has the potential of severely disrupting the supply of basic commodities to the country. The stolen information may also be of strategic value to enemy states. Despite the successful hack, there has yet to have been a request for ransom, which raises the suspicion that the attack was strategic in nature with the target of acquiring information on critical Israeli infrastructure.
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Data is the new oil, computer experts says
At 11:30 on Friday night Orian, an Israeli logistics and international freight forwarding firm, found itself the target of a cyberattack.
Alerted by Amital Data, an Orian software services partner, of the targeted attack on a computer server located at Orian’s offices, the logistics company learned that corporate data, as well as data from 40 of Amital’s clients, had been compromised.
According to the company, it identified the types of data taken in the attack but not the exact data taken.
“Data is like the new oil,” Dr. Reuven Lerner, an expert and consultant in computer programming and data science, told The Media Line.
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