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Matthew Olson

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Matthew Olsen served as U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's National Security Division, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and General Counsel of the National Security Agency. In the private sector, he co-founded the cybersecurity firm IronNet Cybersecurity and previously served as Chief Trust and Security Officer at Uber.

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Olson: Small non-state groups now possess former nation-state cyber attack capabilities
“We see individual small groups of people, as you said, gaining the capabilities of what were nation state capabilities in terms of the ability to carry out attacks from just a few years ago.”
Matthew Olson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:23 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
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Olson: Public cybersecurity discussions suffer from threat inflation and imprecise risk assessment
“I do think we face a bit of inflation about the nature of the threat, or at least a little bit of lack of care in talking about the threat.”
Matthew Olson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:32 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity

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EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity Jan 2, 2019 5m
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