Founder and CEO of Prevailion, Karim Hijazi joins us on this episode of Security Confidential. He is the host of the podcast the introverted iconoclast. He has been in infosec since the 90s.  He was the former director of intelligence at Mandiant. He is a serial entrepreneur. In 2011, his second company, Unveillance’s, success resulted in disrupting the malicious operations of the hacker collective, Anonymous. He has been featured in news outlets throughout the country.   

00:00 Introduction 

01:40 Why entrepreneurship? What’s your driver? Advice? 

09:10 The Introverted Iconoclast 

16:20 Keeping Cyber Interesting 

18:47 Unveillance  

21:44 Anonymous 

26:01 The minds of Bad Actors

32:14 Sea Cucumbers and Armadillos  

35:22 Reducing the dwelling time 

37:03 How do I know I’m a target? 

42:00 Do you get threatened? 

43:54 How is Prevailion doing this? 

49:00 Polymorphism of Malware 

52:20 Artificial Intelligence  

54:50 Connecting with Karim  

To learn more about Karim visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/karimhijazi/ 

The Introverted Iconoclast: https://www.theintrovertediconoclast.com/ 

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