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Nathaniel Gleicher

Head of Security Policy, Meta · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nathaniel Gleicher leads global efforts to identify and counter coordinated adversarial threats, including influence operations and cyber-espionage across Meta's platforms. He previously served as Director for Cybersecurity Policy on the White House National Security Council and Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at Illumio.

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1 prediction · 1 assertion · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Nathaniel argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Gleicher: The statistic that 60% of cyberattacked small businesses fail is baseless
“There's a statistic that's been going around. It was used in a couple of cybersecurity bills recently. It was used on the Hill. And the statistic is, 60% of small businesses that get targeted with a cyber attack go out of business within six months. And in cas…”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:28 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity

Everything Nathaniel Gleicher said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Gleicher: The statistic that 60% of cyberattacked small businesses fail is baseless
“There's a statistic that's been going around. It was used in a couple of cybersecurity bills recently. It was used on the Hill. And the statistic is, 60% of small businesses that get targeted with a cyber attack go out of business within six months. And in cas…”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:28 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Insight
Gleicher: The primary cyber threat is persistent trust degradation, not catastrophic attacks
“We tend to imagine that getting inside is the big problem, and that once they get inside, there's this risk of this big, massive institution-ending event, and that is certainly possible. But much more frequent is the steady, low-grade degradation of trust in t…”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:15 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Insight
Gleicher: Nuclear deterrence is a flawed analogy for cybersecurity threats
“Nuclear deterrence is built around the model of a sovereignty ending massive event as opposed to constant low-grade threat. It really doesn't map very well.”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:46 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Insight
Gleicher: High impermeable perimeter security fails because defenders hold internal strategic advantages
“A very high impermeable perimeter doesn't work. And in fact, at the perimeter, the defender has the greatest disadvantage. The intruder can keep trying to get over it. Once the intruder gets over the fence and into your environment, they're in an environment t…”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:24 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gleicher: Cybersecurity defenders will eventually balance out attacker advantages
“If you look historically at technologies that have upended conflict and made it much easier to be an attacker than a defender, there are any number of these throughout history, from armor in World War II to gunpowder in sort of the 16th century in Europe, and …”
Nathaniel Gleicher Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:48 a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity

Appearances (1)

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