PSW #759 - Ismael Valenzuela

As Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry, Ismael Valenzuela leads threat research, intelligence, and defensive innovation. Ismael has participated as a security professional in numerous projects around the world for over the past two decades. In this episode, Ismael discusses his journey to become a top cybersecurity expert. We also explore the cybersecurity trends he and his team are seeing, and how cyber attackers are gaining a foothold and maintaining persistence.

Segment Resources:

https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/company/research-and-intelligence

https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/09/the-curious-case-of-monti-ransomware-a-real-world-doppelganger https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2022/06/symbiote-a-new-nearly-impossible-to-detect-linux-threat

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