Matthew Holland, CEO of Field Effect, discusses how motivated engineers leaving intelligence agencies staff elite private security research teams.
Opinion
Holland: Ransomware is the easiest malware to detect and stop
“Ransomware in general, I don't get how it even exists. It is the easiest malware to detect and stop. How there's even an industry around that blows my mind.”
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Holland: Modern security machine learning is just 2005 antivirus analytics
“The existing machine learning implementations and a lot of solutions out there is the exact same thing that, you know, I've seen in antiviruses back in 2005. They just didn't call it machine learning. It was just training analytics to look for anomalies and.”
Opinion
Holland: Countries cannot trust Huawei for 5G wireless infrastructure
“If a nation is going to re-kit their entire country with a new type of wireless gear, especially with the complexities of five G, you need to trust that vendor. You need to be sure that the interests of that vendor are at the very least not opposed to the inte…”
Opinion
Holland: Snowden leaked legitimate programs just to insult the intelligence community
“Why did he, you know, expose completely legitimate legal intelligence gathering programs that have a ton of people's names associated with that? Why did he go out the door with that? And that, I think, is what I have a much larger problem with in that, you kno…”
Opinion
Holland: The cybersecurity industry is an unethical shit show
“The current state of the cybersecurity industry, to say it's a hard problem is an understatement. It is a, an unethical shit show, I would say, and it really bothers me where it's at.”
Opinion
Holland: Bypassing Apple's core mitigations allows attackers to compromise any device globally
“All you need to do is get around these set of mitigations, and you now can own any Apple device in the world.”