New vulnerabilities and attacks based on them are always ahead of the protection methods. How to identify which threats are most relevant and can be directed against you tomorrow? Are the hackers really as scary as people speculate? We explored the services available on the black market of cybercrime in Russia and the CIS and found a lot of very nice services like purchasing and renting of botnets, personal malware, DoS attacks, hacking of private and corporate emails, etc… and decided to test these services to get the real picture of the methods hackers use and to know the costs of such attacks.

About the speaker

Dmitry Slinkov

Information Security Officer at RUSSIA CONSULTING

Dmitry Slinkov is building security processes and culture in a small group of 10 companies with HQ in Moscow with more than 500 employees. From the development of Security Concept and Security Strategy to its implementation, KPI and audit in all offices, his work at RUSSIA CONSULTING does also involve the development and implementation of products such as for background checks of people. Before his current position, Dmitry worked as information security manager for Michelin, as information security specialist at HSBC, and as information security administrator at Citi financial services.
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