Researcher Spotlight: You should have been listening to Lurene Grenier years ago
Summary: Lurene Grenier, one of the first researchers on the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team that became Talos, has rejoined Talos as a special advisor to vice president Matt Watchinski, studying state-sponsored actors and major attacker trends using Talos data and telemetry. In a 2018 Talos Threat Research Summit talk she warned that organizations were not taking state-sponsored threats seriously enough and warned about intellectual property theft, techniques and actors that resurfaced earlier this year in a U.S. and U.K. federal agency warning about Chinese state-sponsored actors stealing IP and creating fraudulent "tech transfer" agreements.
Bottom line: Grenier now treats state-sponsored compromise as an inevitability rather than something to avoid, and focuses on making attacks as costly as possible for the adversary - a shift in posture that assumes the breach has already happened.
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