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Podcast: SpyCast
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The Cyber Behavioral Profiler with Cameron Malin
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:08:30
Publish Date: 2024-10-22 11:00:00
Description:

Summary

Cameron Malin (LinkedIn) joins Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss cyber and behavioral profiling. Cameron was the creator and founder of the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center. 


What You’ll Learn

Intelligence

  • The historical origins of behavioral profiling
  • Applying behavioral profiling to counterintelligence and cyber threats
  • Nature vs. Nurture in criminal behavior
  • The future of deception and cyberwarfare 

Reflections

  • The complexity of the human mind
  • Threat evolution

And much, much more …


Quotes of the Week

“We need to think about cybersecurity as not just hacking and malware and the obvious tangible or known weapons that are used, it includes mental malware … Deep fakes and disinformation, things that can cause erroneous decision making that are just as powerful.” – Cameron Malin


Resources 

SURFACE SKIM

*SpyCasts*

DEEPER DIVE

Books

  • Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets through Computer-Mediated Communications, C. Malin et. al. (Academic Press, 2017)
  • Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling, M. Cannell (Minotaur Books, 2017)
  • Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, J. Douglas & M. Olshaker (1995) 

Primary Sources 

*Wildcard Resource*

  • Mindhunter (2017-2019)
  • While not perfectly accurate, this TV show (heavily inspired by the book of the same name, listed above) is a truly excellent watch. 

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