Brian Kime
Senior Analyst
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RSA Conference 2020: An Intelligence Nerd’s Shopping List
RSA Conference is an incredible opportunity for vendors to showcase their products and services to the security and risk community. Vendors, my shopping list does not include vaporware or snake oil. Everyone attending knows the internet is a scary place and threats are around every digital corner. Skip the scary statistics, and tell me how […]
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SANS CTI Summit Recap: It’s All About The Process
Crystal City again hosted the eighth SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit, with several hundred attendees. CTI Summit cochairs Rick Holland, Rebekah Brown, and Katie Nickels again planned a fun, entertaining, and very educational two-day event for threat intelligence professionals from around the world. If you’re a cyber threat intelligence analyst or vendor, I encourage you to attend and submit a presentation idea for 2021. CTI […]
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Work Hard . . . At Not Getting Your Phone Compromised
The recent news concerning the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ mobile phone demonstrates that corporate executives are perfectly legitimate collection targets for governments. Powerful individuals should expect to be targets of criminals, activists, and governments. Furthermore, anyone in failing relationships could be a target for a partner installing “stalkerware.” To address these emerging threats, […]
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Meet Your New Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, And ICS Research Analyst
This month, I joined Forrester’s security and risk research team as a senior analyst covering cyber threat intelligence, digital risk protection, vulnerability management, and industrial control system (ICS) security. I am excited about joining the team and expanding Forrester’s existing research in threat and vulnerability management and securing the control systems that keep our manufacturing facilities, critical infrastructure, and communities safe and productive. In my opinion, […]
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