Mark Risher on Google Advanced Protection
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 6 October 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Stories of grievous hacks, data breaches and their fallouts have become an almost daily addition to the news cycle. On Wednesday, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Mark Risher, Director of Product Management for Security and Privacy for Google, to talk about how his team is thinking about the current and future threats posed by malicious cyber actors.
They discussed Google Advanced Protection, how Google works with “targeted” individuals to set up secure systems, the growing sophistication of phishing emails, and how you might be able to protect yourself. By way of full disclosure, Google is a financial supporter of the Brookings institution, with whose cooperation, Lawfare is published.
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| 0:30.0 | So the trends are overwhelmingly towards much more targeted and precise bespoke messages. |
| 0:41.0 | And you're right, this dear surre madam, I'm selling an oil ministry share. |
| 0:46.0 | That doesn't really, and that's say it doesn't matter, but A, we're blocking the vast majority, |
| 0:52.0 | and B, users have seen this, they're hip to those games, like it is not the bleeding edge, |
| 0:57.0 | it's not what we're really concerned about, what we're concerned about, |
| 1:00.0 | is these targeted messages, where the attacker will first do some research around the target. |
| 1:06.0 | So they find out who you are, maybe using social media, they'll add some credibility, |
| 1:11.0 | you know, zooming in on where you are, where you work, potentially people you know. |
| 1:15.0 | They may also add credibility by siphoning information from related accounts. |
| 1:22.0 | So one particularly disturbing trend we've seen is incorporating information from some of these high profile breaches to add credence to their message. |
| 1:31.0 | For example, you know, there's famously aquifax was breached, lots of information is there. |
| 1:36.0 | You might receive a message that says, you know, I'm writing to you about, you know, the person with these, |
| 1:41.0 | the last four digits of their social security number, you know, three, four, five, six. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm Michaela Fogel and this is the Lawfare Podcast October 6th, 2018. |
| 1:51.0 | Stories of grievous hacks, data breaches and their fallouts have become an almost daily addition to the news cycle. |
| 1:58.0 | On Wednesday, Ben Witt is sat down with Mark Rischer, director of product management for security and privacy at Google |
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