a16z Podcast: Security’s Wakeup Call
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🗓️ 3 December 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, well, in the interest of keeping on the schedule, we're going to get started. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Dr. Ash Carter, a deputy secretary of defense, and Alex Stamos, who's the Siso of Yahoo. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm John Jack. I'm a board partner at Andresen Horowitz. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm 59 years old. |
| 0:19.0 | And yesterday I was reading the paper, listening to Frank Sinatra. |
| 0:26.8 | And at the same time, I opened my mail. |
| 0:30.6 | And I had, and this part's true. |
| 0:32.6 | I was actually listening to ACDC, but he wouldn't know that. |
| 0:36.7 | So I opened my mail and I did have a new charge card from Visa as a result of the Home Depot breach. |
| 0:48.3 | And as we've seen in the news, there's the Home Depot breach, there's the Target breach, which the cost to target is now |
| 0:55.6 | $236 million direct costs and rising. And we know what happened to a few people's jobs there. |
| 1:03.2 | And now we have J.P. Morgan Chase. So my first question to you, Ash, is what's going on? |
| 1:09.4 | I think that as long as I've been in the technology field and then five and a half |
| 1:15.6 | years in the Department of Defense, and just to be clear, I'm the former Deputy Secretary |
| 1:19.6 | of Defense as of a few months ago. |
| 1:20.8 | You were just promoted. |
| 1:21.8 | But we had all of our systems and our technology |
| 1:28.2 | and obviously NSA reported to me and all that. |
| 1:32.3 | And I was consistently disappointed with our security, |
| 1:38.5 | even though we spent awful lot on it. |
| 1:40.4 | We're probably more aware of than others. |
| 1:42.0 | And as long as I've been in this field, |
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