Ken Dunham | Source | Director, Cyber Threat, Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) at Qualys
Ken Dunham
Ken is Cyber Threat Director at Qualys Threat Research Unit. He has more than 30 years of consulting experience in cybersecurity leadership, incident response, dark web operations, malware research and response, and strategic transformation. He holds a CISSP, CISM, Masters of Teacher Education with research in alternative assessment of multiple intelligences, and he has held numerous technical certifications over the years ranging from reverse engineering to network security and forensics.
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Qualys
Director, Cyber Threat, Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU)
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Critical infrastructure may be the subject of disruptive cyberattacks
The White House has stated that critical infrastructure may be targeted by malicious actors, and security leaders are sharing their insights on the situation.
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Nation-state actors have been targeting critical infrastructure for years to posture and prepare cyber weapons and capabilities for escalation and capabilities for a time and place when it is strategically advantageous for them to utilize in an attack. For example, this was seen with attacks by Russian with their attack into Georgia, attacking critical infrastructure week prior to conventional armed forces attacking, facing little to no resistance, with sickness and dysentery set in for many.
