Skip To Main Content
Brett Winterford on Muck Rack

Brett Winterford

  • Regional Chief Security Officer, APJ, Okta
Perth
As seen in: Medium, Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum, ZDNet, Okta Corporate Blog, CyberScoop, iTnews, CRN Australia, Risky Business Podcast, Risky Business and
InfoSec, tweeting and tooting when time allows. Dipping toes in mastodon at breditor@infosec.exchange - Founding (former) editor of SRSLY RISKY BIZ newsletter.
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Brett

Contact Brett, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

How to stop attackers from self-serving their way into accounts

|
By Brett Winterford
| Okta Corporate Blog
Executive Summary Over the last 12 months, Okta Threat Intelligence has observed a growing number of attacks in which users are tricked into approving attacker-initiated MFA enrollments and password resets. We have observed numerous related clusters of activity in which threat actors have tested, iterated on, and scaled these social engineering attacks.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Identitätsbetrug im Recruiting: Remote-IT-Jobs als neues Einfallstor für Cyberkriminelle

|
By Brett Winterford
| Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity
Mit zunehmender Digitalisierung gibt es auch in anderen Branchen immer mehr Remote-Jobs für technische Rollen. So stellen beispielsweise Organisationen im Gesundheitswesen verstärkt Mitarbeitende für die Entwicklung mobiler Anwendungen und elektronischer Dokumentationsplattformen ein. Im Finanzdienstleistungssektor wurden neue Remote-Stellen in Back-Office-Bereichen wie Gehaltsabrechnung und Buchhaltung geschaffen.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Unmasking the AI-powered, remote IT worker scams threatening businesses worldwide

|
By Brett Winterford
| World Economic Forum
AI has enabled a new class of cybercriminals to set their sights on the lucrative opportunities presented by directly infiltrating businesses. Advances in generative AI have empowered fraudsters to exploit the hiring process for in-demand remote technical roles. Organizations today must strengthen their defenses to ensure the integrity of their hiring practices.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 215 licensed articles (216 Total)