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Stu Sjouwerman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
183 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

He's great for your business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

He is the reason why I walk to the bank laughing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

It's very much so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

Vladimir Putin is essentially waging a sort of a low-grade cyber war against the U.S., which is, in his perspective, asymmetrical warfare, because they only have 10% of the budget that we do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

And so he's harassing U.S., you know, both profits and nonprofits with all this, you know, essentially, COVID ransomware, that's the best example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

Okay, those programs are state-sponsored cyber attacks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

It's just offensive cyber attack that they create zoos of code that is offensive code as opposed to defensive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

The NSA is a good example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

They have a whole bunch of that stuff, which was recently hacked, and then showbrokers

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

which is indeed a shadowy set of people, let these loose, which brings us to today, where you have this WannaCry ransomware, which has an NSA zero-day built in, which is a worm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

So this is kind of like a tomahawk missile that got loose and was used by a ransomware gang.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

Now, we, of course, also have tons of these offensive cyber weapons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

So does Russia.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

So does China.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

And the problem is that hackers go after the weak link in IT security, which is the human.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

And so they send well-crafted phishing emails to specific people that they know who they're going after with a very, very convincing email and an attachment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

Somebody opens the attachment and clicks and that workstation is owned.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

We send you and the people in your team frequent phishing attacks that are very close to what the bad guys do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

So we inoculate the people in your organization and get them to essentially get their awareness up so they stay on their toes with security top of mind.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
716: Putin is Making This Man $50 Million Per Year

That's what we do.