Shane Huntley on Countering Digital Threats at Google
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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Shane Huntley, the director of Google’s Threat Analysis Group—a team that leads Google’s efforts to track threats from nation states and hacker groups. If you’ve ever received a notification from Google that a state-sponsored actor is trying to access your email account, you’ve heard from the Threat Analysis Group. The group examines everything from attempts to steal cryptocurrency to what Google calls “coordinated influence campaigns.”
Recently, the Threat Analysis Group has begun putting out blog posts with updates on their work against coordinated influence campaigns. Alina and Quinta asked Shane about his “bulletin” for the first quarter of 2020.
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| 1:08.0 | The ultimate prioritisation system is the what is the biggest threat to our users and to us. |
| 1:14.0 | So, on the hacking front, one of our measures is I kind of described as the surprise theory. |
| 1:22.0 | I asked my head analyst, if the head of incident response called you up and said we were hacked, |
| 1:28.0 | who would you be least surprised at once? |
| 1:30.0 | And then if you sort of give a list of who you would have been that surprised if we were hacked. |
| 1:34.0 | And this hasn't happened yet, but we have that list. |
| 1:38.0 | That's probably a good measure of where we want to spend a lot of our time looking |
| 1:42.0 | because that's probably who we assess to be the biggest threat. |
| 1:44.0 | And that may not be the person with the best exploits or the coolest hackers, |
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