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Dr. Bob Sohval

VP & Fellow, Data Science, SecurityScorecard. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Dr. Bob Sohval holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics from MIT and designed medical imaging systems prior to moving into data science. At SecurityScorecard, he oversees machine learning algorithms for predictive cybersecurity risk ratings and holds multiple patents in cyber risk quantification.

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10statements
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Everything Dr. Bob Sohval said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Opinion
Experian's outdated browser usage signals poor security hygiene, says Bob Sohval
“Northwestern Mutual on the left is, is doing a pretty reasonable job of keeping their browser browser use up to date. Experian, not so much. And this is a signal that they're not paying enough attention to security hygiene in, in their company.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 10:13 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Insight
Cyber breach prediction is more accurate on portfolios than individual companies
“And I would say that, ah, in general, breach prediction on portfolios is somewhat easier than for individual entities. The law of large numbers does apply here, and it's easier to make statements at a portfolio level.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 13:55 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Companies with poor security scores are five times more likely to breach
“Of the probability of a breach given a poor score versus a good score, and we look at our data, and that is a ratio of five, something like that. So poor scores are predictive of breach.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 14:44 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Disclosure
SecurityScorecard operates proprietary honeypots and sinkholes to detect corporate malware
“We are able, we operate our own bank of sinkholes and honeypots to detect malware on, on systems that are at the, on the companies that we monitor.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 6:00 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Assertion Supported
Sohval: Corporate digital footprints by IP count span over eight orders of magnitude
“In terms of digital footprint, number of IPs, that spans more than eight orders of magnitude.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 8:45 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Disclosure
SecurityScorecard observes a 1,000-to-1 ratio of non-breached to breached companies
“The number of non-breached companies, the ratio of non-breached to breached is something like, in our system or our platform, something like a thousand to one.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 11:45 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Industry-wide cyber breach detection takes an average of five months
“Industry average is five months.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 13:27 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
SecurityScorecard monitored around 200,000 entities as of October 2017
“Currently we monitor in the vicinity of some 200,000 entities, mostly companies, but also government organizations, government agencies, hospitals, different organizations.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 4:18 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
SecurityScorecard aimed to monitor one million entities by the end of 2018
“We plan on growing that to about one million by the end of next year.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 4:30 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
SecurityScorecard predicted data ingestion would reach petabyte scale by late 2018
“That will grow a factor of six at least next year. And by the end of next year we'll be at the petabyte. Level.”
Dr. Bob Sohval Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 4:37 Cybersecurity Data at Scale // Sam Kassoumeh & Bob Sohval, SecurityScorecard (Data Driven)

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