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Cyber Risks · Cisco Talos

Researcher Spotlight: Around the security world and back again with Nick Biasini

Summary: Cisco Talos published a researcher spotlight on Nick Biasini, its Head of Outreach, who has spent nearly 20 years in security and worked on incidents including an attack on the global Olympic Games, wireless router malware affecting hundreds of thousands of devices, and some of the largest supply chain attacks in history. Biasini, who started with Snort network intrusion detection in his first college class and later worked at the Federal Aviation Administration defending the national airspace, now coordinates Talos' public messaging and detection writing during major incidents and spoke at the RSA Conference last month with Talos Incident Response's Pierre Cadieux.

Why it matters: Biasini names business email compromise as the threat that is harder to address because it carries no malware and relies purely on social engineering and people making mistakes, and he says attackers specifically target users who may not have a high level of cybersecurity knowledge.

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Supply Chain & AppSec
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