Enabling connectivity enables exposures. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 17 July 2021

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Guest Nathan Howe, Vice President of Emerging Technology at Zscaler, joins Dave to discuss his team's work, "2021 “Exposed” Report Reveals Corporate and Cloud Infrastructures More at Risk Than Ever From Expanded Attack Surfaces." The modern workforce has resulted in an increase of users, devices, and applications existing outside of controlled networks, including corporate networks, the business emphasis on the “network” has decreased and the reliance on the internet as the connective tissue for businesses has increased. Zscaler analyzes the attack surface of 1,500 organizations and identifies trends affecting businesses of all sizes and industries, across all geographies. Key findings include: The attack surface impact based on company size The countries with the greatest attack surface The industries that are most exposed The research can be found here: “Exposed”: The world’s first report to reveal how exposed corporate networks really are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:54.8	So the tool itself basically collects open source intelligence off the internet and puts together that in a way that is with a bit of a risk rating easy for the customers to see where they have some exposures.
1:58.4	That's Nathan Howe.
1:59.7	He's vice president of emerging technology at Z-Scaler. The research we're discussing today
2:05.5	is titled Exposed. It looks at the risks corporate and cloud infrastructures face from expanded
2:12.0	attack surfaces. You can sense the glory. Is this distorted something?
2:24.0	Feel it in your bone.
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