Cracks in the Foundation: Understanding the New Endpoint Challenge – John Loucaides – BSW #187
Cyber adversaries have mastered the art of staying one step ahead of our controls. As endpoint protections grow stronger, attackers have adapted by going further down the stack - targeting firmware, hardware and device-level vulnerabilities. Eclypsium’s John Loucaides discusses recent exploits, and the steps business security leaders should be taking to protect the foundations of the enterprise.
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John Loucaides is the VP of Research and Development at Eclypsium, the comprehensive cloud-based device security platform that protects enterprise devices all the way down to the firmware and hardware level. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company was named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most innovative Security Companies for 2020, the CNBC Upstart 100 list, and Gartner’s Cool Vendor list for Security Operations and Threat Intelligence. John has extensive history in hardware and firmware threats from experience at Intel Corporation and the United States government. At Intel he served as the Director of Advanced Threat Research, Platform Armoring and Resiliency, PSIRT, and was a CHIPSEC maintainer. Prior to this, he was Technical Team Lead for Specialized Platforms for the federal government.
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