14th and 15th February, 2025
Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki Finland
Guardians of the Hypervisor,
Nicklas Keijser
Anders Olsson
All ransomware actors have now the capability to encrypt hypervisors that has led to some of the biggest attacks and brings down whole organisation. This talk will give in-depth insight how these attacks are performed, how to protect from them but also how detection and response can be accomplished, even thou it is not possible to install any agents on ESXi and vSphere, so they can be stopped.
Nicklas Keijser
Nicklas Keijser is a Threat Research Analyst at Truesec, a role that involves much reverse engineering and looking into all things malware. Nicklas is also a subject matter expert in industrial control systems and anything related to its security. He started his career programming PLCs, SCADA systems, and almost anything else possible within the industry. Before joining Truesec, Nicklas worked at the Swedish National CERT in the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.
Anders Olsson
Anders has more than 25 years of experience in design and implementation of IT infrastructure. He’s one of only 301 people worldwide who have passed the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) design and in-person panel defense, and he has also been awarded the VMware vExpert title every year from 2016 to present. Anders specializes in VMware vSphere security, covering both proactive security design and hardening as well as reactive incident response and managed detection and response.
