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With Cyber Security Awareness Month underway, we’re speaking with Jonathan Tomek of Digital Element on the topic of Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs on Enterprise Radio.
This episode of Enterprise Radio is on association with the Cyber Security Channel.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Jonathan Tomek discuss the following:
- To help our audience understand what VPNs, could you give us some background on their function for companies?
- Now this changed with the pandemic lockdowns, correct?
- How many people today do you think are using VPNs?
- What is your tip for enterprises on why they should be concerned about the employees who may use a VPN at home to either secure their privacy or circumvent geo-restrictions so that they can, say, watch British Netflix?
- Let’s say customers use VPNs to sign into their bank accounts or pay their utility bills. Is the bank or utility company at risk? Can a corporate network be infected with malware?
- Why should corporate cybersecurity teams investigate the features and policies of VPN providers … what red flags should they be looking for? How should they use what they learn to set access policies?
- Over the past 9 months, your team at Digital Element has been warning about the threat posed by residential IP proxy networks. What are they? And what kinds of threats do they pose?
- Many of our listeners are among companies and brands who spend tens of millions of dollars in digital advertising each year … what threats do residential IP proxy networks pose to their budgets?
- Going back to our listeners’ hefty advertising budgets, what Cyber Security Month tip do you have for how IP intelligence data can prevent ad fraud and drive campaign performance?
Jonathan Tomek | VP of Research and Development, Digital Element
Jonathan is a seasoned threat intelligence researcher with a background of network forensics, incident handling, malware analysis, and many other technology skills.
Jonathan served in the United States Marine Corps. He worked at multiple threat intelligence companies, and built their threat capabilities to include identifying tactics, techniques, procedures of malicious actors. He led several technical cyber crime and espionage teams in their initiative to enhance technical efficiency in malware analysis, malicious actor tracking, and tool development.
He is a co-founder of THOTCON, a world-renowned hacking and security conference hosted in Chicago. As a researcher and leader, he has spoken at GFIRST, SANS, Suit and Spooks, as well as various other security conferences around the world. He has won or placed in multiple national hacking competitions including DEFCON CTF.
Website: https://www.digitalelement.com
Social Media Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigitalElement
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-element
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