Drystan Govender
Drystan Govender serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Cyber Retaliator Solutions (CRS), where he is responsible for defining the company's technology vision and ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable cybersecurity solutions.
Drawing on a robust background in pre-sales engineering and extensive hands-on field experience, Drystan excels at translating complex client challenges into practical, strategic technology solutions. He works intimately with a diverse network of partners, resellers, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), and customers to implement tailored solutions that meet their unique operational needs.
Drystan is passionate about building resilient security architectures, optimizing processes, and supporting sustainable growth. His overarching goal is to make technology work seamlessly for clients while aggressively advancing CRS’s mission to deliver trusted, highly effective cybersecurity defenses.
Session
Traditional security perimeters are failing because attackers are no longer hacking in, they are logging in. Stolen credentials are now the top initial access vector, involved in 88% of basic web application attacks
- As Infostealer Malware-as-a-Service operations industrialize, the dark web and illicit messaging apps are flooded with valid credentials and active session tokens
- This presentation "lights the way" by exposing the hidden mechanics of the modern stealer log ecosystem. We would explore how malware variants like RedLine and Vidar harvest session cookies to seamlessly bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), granting adversaries instant access to centralized environments like Microsoft Entra ID.
- Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of this unseen underground economy and practical strategies for Identity Exposure Management (IEM) to illuminate their blind spots, validate exposures, and neutralize threats before exploitation.