The Picasso of Cyberattacks Has Only Just Begun [Part1], With Travis Howerton

03/02/21 • 20 min

The Picasso of Cyberattacks Has Only Just Begun – Part I Travis Howerton of C2 Labs joins the podcast for an insightful discussion on the global threat landscape through the lens of his more than 20+ years working on the front lines of national security with organizations such as National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Bechtel. In part one of our conversation Travis shares his thoughts on how the SolarWinds hack was the Picasso of modern cyberattacks, inherent challenges to identifying attacks when you can’t trust the tools you’re working with, understanding the shared responsibility model in cloud security, protecting data with a 20-30 year outlook and the nature of cyberlogical attacks where integrity is critical. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e122

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In this episode we explore the intersection of cybersecurity and human behavior with returning guest, Dr. Margaret Cunningham, Principal Research Scientist for Human Behavior at Forcepoint X-Labs. For public and private sector organizations, cybersecurity has always been addressed as a technology-first challenge. However as cyber threats evolve, the lack of behavioral science becomes a growing issue in today’s threat environment. We discuss the challenge of calculating and addressing risk, the importance of understanding human behavior vs. controlling it, and why most organizations fail to effectively measure and understand the true impact of cyber solutions. Additionally, we look at how the pandemic has created opportunities for expanding and diversifying the cyber workforce, and why it’s critical for us to open the aperture of traditional security to include experts in fields such as human behavior. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e121

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The Picasso of Cyberattacks Has Only Just Begun [Part2], With Travis Howerton

We pick up part two of our discussion with C2 Labs Co-Founder and CTO Travis Howerton looking at how the best laid plans start with the truth. And we explore the security path forward in a hyper-connected world where we move more heavily into IoT and everything is connected, dying air gaps and distributed VPNs, identity management as the new firewall, identifying clear lines of deterrence with nation-states particularly within no consequence environments, the continuing skills gap and the looming threat of quantum computing that the first one to solve will be the true winner in cyber ahead. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e123