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How The Chief Security Officer Of CrowdStrike Approaches Cyberattacks

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Shawn Henry serves as chief security officer of CrowdStrike since 2012. Henry joined after retiring from the FBI senior executive service. He founded the company's security practices and its world-renowned incident response and professional services practice.


Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Shawn oversaw half of the FBI’s investigative operations as Executive Assistant Director, including all FBI criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, international operations, and the FBI’s critical incident response to major investigations and disasters. He also managed computer crime investigations spanning the globe, established the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, and received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive for his leadership in enhancing the FBI’s cyber capabilities.


Shawn Henry, chief security officer of Crowdstrike and FBI veteran, joins 'Forbes Talks' to share the new tools and risks from AI, hacking and legacy tech.


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0:00.0

Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I'm here with Sean Henry who's chief security officer of the

0:08.3

Cybersecurity Company crowd strike. Sean, good to see you. I should mention that you founded the

0:14.0

security practice and that you retired, I think more than 10 years ago at this

0:17.8

point from the FBI, where you headed up global cyber investigations as well as global criminal

0:25.5

investigations among many other things so I can't think of a better person to

0:29.4

talk to about the threat environment right now. I don't know where to start. We've got

0:35.0

rogue AI espionage, you know, ransomware. What's on your radar?

0:40.0

Well, thanks Diane. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. I've been in this space for more than 25 years, both with the FBI and at Kraut strike now.

0:50.0

Almost 12 years, you said 10, almost 12, it's incredible how fast it's gone.

0:54.7

That's right, 2012, you're right.

0:56.9

Yeah, but what's amazing is I get a lot of questions often

1:01.4

about from people asking about, you know what what are you

1:04.1

looking for what predictions for for next year and while there certainly are

1:08.1

some newer things the reality is so much of what we're seeing is what's been going on for 20 plus years in this space

1:18.7

It's it's really quite frightening for a lot of reasons.

1:22.8

First, because we've not been able to get ahead of it and stop it.

1:27.1

And in fact, I don't think we're going to be able to stop ever the access of networks by adversaries nation states

1:35.9

organized crime groups activist groups because the networks

1:40.2

continue to get bigger there's always going to be vulnerabilities in software and

1:44.2

hardware that'll be exploited and the adversaries are getting so much in

1:48.9

return from their somewhat limited investment in resources, the ROI is so substantial

1:56.8

that they are just motivated to continue and we can't physically get to the people that are doing

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