Grey Noise Welcomes New SVP of Adversary Operations

Summary: GreyNoise announced the appointment of a new Senior Vice President of Adversary Operations, a former Head of Global Signals Operations at Google Threat Intelligence Group who arrived via Google's 2022 acquisition of Mandiant and previously served 12 years on active duty as a U.S. Marine. The post states that adversaries are targeting edge devices to establish beachheads and co-opting infrastructure to proxy follow-on operations, that AI tools are speeding vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and attack-chain operationalization, and that edge systems often lack security features or telemetry, leaving defenders blind with significant lag time between intrusion and available data.
Bottom line: The source describes a structural gap: the systems sitting between networks and the internet frequently generate no telemetry, so intrusion investigations begin after a significant lag - and AI tooling is compressing the adversary's side of that timeline.

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