AIG Shields Up: Cybersecurity

I used the Forage virtual experience program to complete a cybersecurity threat analysis simulation for the Cyber Defense Unit, staying updated on CISA publications.

The first task was to address a vulnerability that may have affected a Product Development Staging Environment infrastructure. To achieve this, I reviewed recent publications from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to research the vulnerability.

Once my research was over, the next task was to identify what department of the organization was affected by the cyber attack, and drafted a clear and concise email to guide teams on vulnerability remediation.

The vulnerability was identified as a Log4j vulnerability which the attacker exploited to load a ransomware on the organization infrastructure, leading to some files being encrypted . My final task was to write a Python script to brute force the decryption keys used on our files and avoided paying ransoms.