S7 E6 Disrupting "Anonymous"

Founder and CEO of Prevailion, Karim Hijazi joins us on this episode of Security Confidential. He is the host of the podcast the introverted iconoclast. He has been in infosec since the 90s. He was the former director of intelligence at Mandiant. He is a serial entrepreneur. In 2011, his second company, Unveillance’s, success resulted in disrupting the malicious operations of the hacker collective, Anonymous. He has been featured in news outlets throughout the country. 00:00 Introduction 01:40 Why entrepreneurship? What’s your driver? Advice? 09:10 The Introverted Iconoclast 16:20 Keeping Cyber Interesting 18:47 Unveillance 21:44 Anonymous 26:01 The minds of Bad Actors 32:14 Sea Cucumbers and Armadillos 35:22 Reducing the dwelling time 37:03 How do I know I’m a target? 42:00 Do you get threatened? 43:54 How is Prevailion doing this? 49:00 Polymorphism of Malware 52:20 Artificial Intelligence 54:50 Connecting with Karim To learn more about Karim visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/karimhijazi/ The Introverted Iconoclast: https://www.theintrovertediconoclast.com/ To learn more about Dark Rhino Security visit https://www.darkrhinosecurity.com SOCIAL MEDIA: Stay connected with us on our social media pages where we'll give you snippets, alerts for new podcasts, and even behind the scenes of our studio! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/securityconfidential/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/Dark-Rhino-Security-Inc-105978998396396/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/darkrhinosec LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dark-rhino-security Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs6R-jX06_TDlFrnv-uyy0w/videos