Today on Cyber Work, I talked with Etay Maor, Chief Security Strategist with Cato Networks. Etay is a founding member of the Cato Cyber Threats Research Lab, or CTRL — see what they did there? — and he joins me to talk about their first CTRL report on attack patterns and methods. We’re going to talk about the most common attack vectors, why Log4J still rules the roost even against newer and flashier exploits, and we go deep into the many paths you can take to become a threat researcher, threat analyst, reverse engineer, and lots more. That’s all on today’s episode of Cyber Work!

0:00 - Intro
4:10 - First interest in cybersecurity and tech
5:15 - Becoming chief security strategist
8:15 - Working in cybersecurity project management
12:07 - Hacker targets and AI
15:04 - The dark web and security access
16:03 - The CTRL report in brief
20:23 - Health care cybersecurity
22:49 - Different cyberattacks in different industries
25:10 - Using security tools as a gateway
27:03 - AI-enabled cyberattacks
33:14 - Careers as a cybersecurity threat researcher
36:09 - Figuring out where to specialize in cybersecurity
41:31 - Important cybersecurity skills and experience
45:58 - Hiring in cybersecurity
49:30 - Future changes in AI and cyber tools
55:38 - What is Cato Networks?
57:13 - Outro

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