Crowdsourcing Hackers with Dan Trauner
Episode 12 of the Hacker Valley Red podcast, hosted by Hacker Valley Media, titled "Crowdsourcing Hackers with Dan Trauner" was published on December 3, 2021 and runs 30 minutes.
December 3, 2021 ·30m · Hacker Valley Red
Summary
This week on Hacker Valley Red, Chris and Ron are joined by Dan Trauner. Dan is Senior Director of Security at Axonius, and takes pleasure in breaking things to find creative ways to put them back together. The three colleagues discuss more technical specifics of a hacker’s mind, like how we can understand motive and deception, trends among attacks, and much more. Key Takeaways: 03:09 Bio 04:33 Where to start when you attack a computer – Finding weaknesses 10:20 Surprising Motives 13:00 Trends among security risks 14:34 Bitcoin & Crypto 16:26 The future of attacks 21:00 Reducing attack success 23:10 Understanding deception 27:50 Cohesion between red and blue teams Links: Hacker Valley Studio: Swag | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Email Ron & Chris | Website Dan Trauner: LinkedIn | Twitter Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon Join our monthly mastermind group via Patreon HVR is proudly presented by Axonius
Episode Description
This week on Hacker Valley Red, Chris and Ron are joined by Dan Trauner. Dan is Senior Director of Security at Axonius, and takes pleasure in breaking things to find creative ways to put them back together. The three colleagues discuss more technical specifics of a hacker’s mind, like how we can understand motive and deception, trends among attacks, and much more.
Key Takeaways:
03:09 Bio
04:33 Where to start when you attack a computer – Finding weaknesses
10:20 Surprising Motives
13:00 Trends among security risks
14:34 Bitcoin & Crypto
16:26 The future of attacks
21:00 Reducing attack success
23:10 Understanding deception
27:50 Cohesion between red and blue teams
Links:
Hacker Valley Studio: Swag | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Email Ron & Chris | Website
Dan Trauner: LinkedIn | Twitter
Support Hacker Valley Studio on Patreon
Join our monthly mastermind group via Patreon
HVR is proudly presented by Axonius
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