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Episode 521

CrowdStrike Co-Founder Dmitri Alperovitch on the SolarWinds Hack

January 13, 2021
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About the Guest

Dmitri Alperovitch

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Silverado Policy Accelerator
Dmitri Alperovitch is a cybersecurity expert and was a co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of CrowdStrike. Dmitri is currently the co-founder and executive chairman at Silverado Policy Accelerator, a nonprofit focused on advancing American prosperity and global leadership in the 21st century and beyond.

Episode Overview

521: Cybersecurity expert Dmitri Alperovitch discusses 

  • Dmitri’s perspectives on the recent US government hack believed by many to have originated in Russia, including 
    • Why the hack was not an act of war but instead was traditional espionage
    • Why this hack has potential to be 100X as significant as the OPM hack
    • Some of the silver linings of the hack
  • How organizations can protect themselves from adversaries, including 
    • Why every organization needs to start with the assumption that an attacker is already inside
    • Why trying to build walls around the perimeter of your network is futile
    • The importance of planning regularly to defend a cyber attack
  • The importance of using a password manager
  • Why individuals should be suspicious of emails and not click attachments from unknown people
  • Why our government is at its weakest point to be able to respond to this threat

Among a variety of other topics.

“"Every organization out there needs to start with an assumption that an attacker is already inside.""

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