Earlier this month, a group of our intrepid pen testers from our Readiness & Resilience team at CISO Global ventured into the heart of the hacking world at DEFCON 32 in Las Vegas. This annual pilgrimage to the mecca of cybersecurity (and more importantly, hacking) is more than just a conference – it’s a hands-on deep dive into the cutting edge of hacking techniques and defensive strategies.

Imagine for a moment that your home has a rodent problem. To address this, you install a fancy system designed to automatically detect and trap animals before they can roam around your house and cause any damage. The system seems to work well; from time to time, you arrive home to find a mouse or a squirrel caught by the device. No big deal, right? Lots of small critters about and the system is working as designed to catch them.

Unfortunately, the cybersecurity industry has been in the crosshairs once again due to the global Microsoft outage caused by CrowdStrike’s disastrous software update on July 19th. Coincidentally, just five days following the CrowdStrike issue, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a case involving another notable cybersecurity company, SolarWinds.