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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.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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.”
Holland: Targeted attacks are more likely to succeed on Android than iOS
“The odds of being hit in a mass attack are potentially lower, but if somebody is targeting you, I would say that the odds of, you know, you, them being successful against you are higher on Android for sure.”
Holland: NSO Group cannot be trusted to make ethical decisions
“They have a whole group now or whole internal group within the company that I've read dedicated to making sure they make ethical decisions. I don't, Personally trust that they're making ethical decisions.”
Holland vehemently opposes any pardon for Edward Snowden
“A little part of me will die if he is pardoned.”
Holland: Commercial security vendors falsely claim businesses need every tool
“And the way that vendors will try to push it forward is they say, you actually need all of that, which is total crap. You do not need all of those things. They do not work well together.”
Holland: Social media influence campaigns are not actual cybersecurity
“What are the organized influence, influential campaigns on, on social media to get people to vote in particular directions? I do not think that's cybersecurity, but that also gets lumped in.”
Holland: Gartner's Magic Quadrant is continually outdated and behind the curve
“The Gardner Quadrant system is often outdated. We were For example, Field Effect was marketing a managed detect and response service well before it was defined in Gartner. And ironically, at the time, we had a hard time, you know, gaining traction.”
Holland: Most cybersecurity vendors prioritize flashy interfaces over solving problems
“And that is largely a component that I don't think most vendors in the cybersecurity industry get. They are more interested in showing you, check out this really cool interface, which, you know, no one in your company is probably going to know how to use.”
Holland: Running a one-year-old Android OS makes users significant targets
“Pretty confident that if you're rocking a version of Android that's a year old, you're probably a pretty big target, and that, You know, again, I don't mean to pick on Android, but that is just a reality of how that ecosystem has evolved.”