Bryson Bort is the Chief Executive Officer at SCYTHE. Bryson is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a cybersecurity consultancy, and Co-Founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control system security. He is a Senior Fellow for Cybersecurity and National Security at R Street and the National Security Institute and an Advisor to the Army Cyber Institute.
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The challenge is where some governments will use this outside of the accepted norms to repress dissent, affect freedom of the press, or for their own private uses. Any protections that were built into the platform could be removed, and the inherent operation of such a platform would be done without the vendor's access or oversight.