Mathieu LE CLEACH
Mathieu is a Principal Incident Responder at CERT-EU. He has solid experience in responding to high-profile incidents involving Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and cyber espionage. In addition to his incident response duties, he leads the detection engineering effort, leveraging his technical expertise to identify and mitigate previously uncovered threats. Mathieu was a speaker at the 36th Annual FIRST Conference in Fukuoka, Japan and at the Hack.lu 2024.
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Edge devices sit on the Internet-facing border of every organisation, silently bridging trust zones while running full Linux distributions that rarely see a reboot, let alone a patch. Because they are “just network kit,” they are exempted from EDR, and excluded from MDM, making them the perfect beachhead for an attacker who wants to pivot into a company's network without triggering a single alert.