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Researcher Spotlight: Jacob Finn creates his own public-private partnership at Talos

Summary: Jacob Finn, a strategic analyst on Cisco Talos' Threat Intelligence and Interdiction team, analyzes dark web forums, open-source intelligence and network telemetry to track state-sponsored and criminal threat actors. Before Talos, he served as Cybersecurity Policy Director for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, led a multilateral security agreement with Auckland and Guangzhou, and worked at the U.S. Department of Defense.

What you should know: Finn's path from city-level policy to threat hunting reflects a gap he names directly: federal work centers on funding and national policy, while the implementation and information-sharing that protect municipalities happen locally - the layer most exposed to ransomware like the attacks hitting cities such as Atlanta during his tenure.

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