As the chief technology officer at Hyas, Dave Mitchell has the unique ability to identify anomalies in nearly any piece of network traffic that other people can’t see. In fact, he notified several companies with Log4j vulnerabilities before they even knew they were involved, he tells Spiceworks News & Insights’ Technology Editor, Neha Kulkarni.
In this edition of Tech Talk, Mitchell notes that a common but unfortunate cybersecurity approach right now seems to be CISOs waiting for the latest cyber threat to be exposed and then rushing to protect their enterprises. “It’s clear this strategy is not working,” he points out. Mitchell sits down for a discussion with the goal of helping the cybersecurity industry get back to basics and understand how to address their security posture holistically.
Key Points:
- The cloud is only as secure as you make it, and it requires continuous monitoring
- Neither artificial intelligence nor machine learning are going to bring a remedy for security
- More organizations need to move to hardware-based MFA, liked FIDO keys
Here are the edited excerpts from our exclusive interview with Dave Mitchell, chief technology…
