Dark Rhino Security Podcast

Robert Black is a Lecturer in Information Activities at Cranfield University on behalf of the UK Defence Academy. He is also the former Deputy Director of the UK’s National Cyber Deception Laboratory. At the Defence Academy, he helps educate senior military leaders about Warfare in the Information Age. His interests are several interests one of them being the role of influence and deception in cyber. 00:00 Introduction 00:19 Our Guest: Robert Black 01:28 Rob's Journey into Cyber 06:20 The weakest link is designing systems that don’t appreciate humans are integrated as a part of the system 09:17 Taking an insurance mindset 10:36 Does the Lock and Key model for Cyber work on bad actors? 16:12 Legality and Kinetic Response (Hack back, WannaCry attack, Liam Neeson, Crowdstrike report, U.S. Military) 22:30 Striking Fear into the Hackers 28:00 Does that help the SOC team? 29:45 Arguing with Attorneys and Hackers 33:19 Use of Deception in Tech 35:32 The psychology of the adversary 41:41 Who is responsible for