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Cybersecurity, Cyber Safety, Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism | A Conversation with Josh Corman
Category: Business
Duration: 01:46:09
Publish Date: 2017-04-17 02:00:00
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In Episode 8 of Hidden Forces podcast, Demetri Kofinas speak with cybersecurity expert and cyber safety advocate, Josh Corman. Josh is the founder of I am the Cavalry, an advocacy group actively engaged in addressing some of the most pressing issues of public safety and threats to human life on the Internet today. He is also the Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council. Josh Corman is part of the 2016 Cybersecurity Task Force commissioned by the United States Congress to address the growing risk to our hospitals, medical infrastructure, and connected devices, from cyber-attacks.

In this episode, Demetri and Josh plug directly into cyberspace. Gone are the quaint, innocent days of the early Internet, with its pesky Trojan’s, Macro Viruses, RATs, slammer worms and blaster worms. Today’s cybersecurity landscape features a wide assortment of easily accessible and robust attack tools. These are tools that exploit software bugs like Shellshock and Heartbleed. This is a cybersecurity landscape littered with DDoS and PDoS attacks like the Mirai Botnet and the recently released Brickerbot, which scans the Internet for Linux-based routers, bridges, or similar Internet-connected devices, before corrupting their hardware, rendering them utterly useless. The use of ransomware tools like CryptoLocker and SamSam have become billion-dollar criminal industries. Cybercrime is estimated to cost the global economy hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars a year. Yet, we accept the losses as the simple cost of doing business. But what about when the cost of these crimes escalates from dollars and cents to flesh and blood? What are the risks to our industrial control systems? What about our aviation and emergency response infrastructure? What are the vulnerabilities in our connected devices, our cars, and our hospitals? Cybersecurity, cyber safety, cybercrime, and cyberterrorism are no longer fringe concerns. They are central to our increasingly interconnected, exposed, and vulnerable society. What do we do about them?

 

Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas

Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou

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