Welcome to the latest episode of the Zero Hour Podcast and I’m your host Karl Sharman. Today we are joined by Tony Cole. Tony is a veteran within cybersecurity having served in senior positions at Symantec, McAfee and FireEye over a 30 year career. Tony is now the CTO for Attivo Networks, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection as well as serving as a member of the NASA Advisory Council.

Key Minutes:

3:30 First time hearing about cybersecurity

4:20 What does it mean to work in cyber?

5:26 Working for FireEye, McAfee & Symantec

12:27 Now CTO at Attivo, who & why?

14:00 Delivering strategy

15:30 Countering threat

16:55 The meaning of adversary

20:45 Leading with Threat Intelligence

21:57 Prevention or Detection?

24:08 Active Cyber Defense

25:50 It won’t happen to me

27:25 Countering the evolving threat

29:20 Increasing budgets within cybersecurity

31:32 What is deception?

34:55 Finding room for regulations

36:14 Relating to nation state risks

39:40 Being a target in the Pentagon

45:40 Being a leading figure within cybersecurity

45:38 The best advice for a person coming into cybersecurity

51:50 Ten Quick Fire Questions

Key Points

- An adversary focus can help us rebuild our security to ensure that even if they get in they are not successful

- Make the adversary work harder to achieve their goals or make it difficult enough where they go after someone else instead.

- It will happen to you, and it’s more likely happened to you already, as you have been focused on prevention over detection.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmtonycole/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoHackn

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