Welcome to Cyber Security Today. From Toronto, this is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, July 15th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for IT World Canada.com.
There won’t be the usual review of news highlights today because I’m off this week. So I’m going to go straight into a discussion I had recently with American cybersecurity expert Eric Cole.
Eric brings a wide range of experience, having been a hacker at the CIA, chief technology officer at McAfee, chief scientist at Lockheed Martin, a commissioner for cybersecurity under President Obama, a ransomware negotiator and cybersecurity consultant with his current firm, Secure Anchor.
(The following transcript has been edited for clarity. To hear the full conversation play the podcast)
Howard: With the Russia-Ukraine war going on, do you wish you were still a hacker with the CIA?
Eric Cole: I can quickly and confidently say no. And the reason is because now there’s way too much red tape and rules. One of the nice things about being a hacker in the early-to-mid 90s is this was brand new territory. We basically created it, forged it. Which meant we created the…
