Selena Larson

Selena Larson is a staff threat researcher and lead, intelligence analysis at strategy at Proofpoint. She collaborates with fellow researchers to identify and investigate advanced cybercriminal threats and develop actionable threat intelligence. She is the creator and co-host of two cybersecurity podcasts. Previously, she was a cyber threat analyst for the industrial cybersecurity firm, Dragos, and a cybersecurity and privacy journalist.

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Talk: Forget What You Know: The Criminals and State-Actor Continuum

The security industry has spent years marketing animals, weather patterns, and imaginary creatures as the biggest threats to national security. We’ve been told that espionage is more important than crime. This might have once made sense. It no longer adds up. Growing misunderstandings and misalignment pose a major risk for both policy makers and private industry. In this presentation, we examine how security practitioners must challenge their biases, honestly evaluate the modern landscape, and more effectively communicate about today’s biggest cyber threats from ransomware to espionage. The result will improve people’s understanding of how best to protect themselves from today’s most serious cyber threats.

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