In this episode of the Future of Cybercrime podcast, Zaira Pirzada speaks with Etay Maor, Senior Director of Security Strategy at Cato Networks. Etay provides fascinating insights into his work as a threat intelligence researcher during the show.
Topics discussed:
- Etay shares his thoughts about how economic conditions and world events affect cybercrime.
- Etay and Zaira examine how threat actors collaborate and share data to create what could be called cybercrime syndicates.
- They explore ways cyber defenders can and should broaden their input from various disciplines to create innovative approaches to cybersecurity.
- Etay compares how his non-technical students at Boston College sometimes develop more creative approaches to potential attack scenarios than more classically minded technical students.
- Zaira probes to uncover Etay's thoughts about how businesses react to cyber incidents.
- Etay describes how cyber breaches are no longer solely a technical issue. In equal measure, they are business issues requiring additional stakeholders to be involved in decision-making.
- Etay talks about his belief that cyber breaches are always the result of multiple steps taken by attackers. They are never the result of a single point of failure.
Resources Mentioned:
- Etay Maor on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/etaymaor/
- Cato Networks Free Educational Resources: https://www.catonetworks.com/resources/