Falkowitz: Cyber threat actors display predictable human patterns in data
Oren Falkowitz · Oren Falkowitz, Area 1 Security // The Future of Cybersecurity (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Oct 21, 2015 · at 1:49
Oren Falkowitz, Founder and CEO of Area 1 Security and former NSA analyst, presents at DataDrivenNYC on rethinking cybersecurity threat actor behavior.
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“Cyber actors are no different than you and me, right? Which means that they open themselves up to a variety of predictable human patterns that can be observed in data that's very different from the way the security industry handles them today, right?”
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