Cyber Report [Nov 16, 22] A Conversation w/ Cyber Legend Jeff Man

Defense & Aerospace Report

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Jeff Man, who was one of the first group of “Red Team” hackers at the National Security Agency’s “Pit” to improve US government security and is now a senior security consultant at IT services company Online Business Systems and the co-host of the Paul’s Security Weekly podcast along with Paul Asadoorian, discusses lessons from his nearly 40-year career including what constitutes a hacker, how threats and defenses have changed over his career, the balance of power between attacks and defenders, training a new generation of talent, the right partnership between government and industry, the efficacy of a certification approach to security, the threat posed by social media sites like TikTok and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.