GO PHISH
L, CTO
WE ‘GO PHISHING’ WITH AVISHAI WOO
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AND CO-FOUNDER OF ALGOSEC, WHO TELLS
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ABOUT LIFE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE OFFIC
What would you describe as your
most memorable achievement in
the cybersecurity industry?
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The challenges of
cloud computing are
the big thing that the
industry is coming to
terms with now.
life to delivering such tools and
education ever since.
What first made you think of a
career in cybersecurity?
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When I realised that there were serio
ing
cern
con
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ple
gaps in what peo
ork
management of the enterprise netw
es,
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and what they could do them
could
and how computers and soft ware
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make their
ent.
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What style of
management
philosophy do you
employ in your
current position?
I see my position as
an advisory/review
type of role. I try to
challenge my team
(and company) by
asking them pointed
questions and
forcing them to think
about the answers.
What do you think is the current
hot cybersecurity talking point?
are
The challenges of cloud computing
ing
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the big thing that the industry
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man
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to terms with now. It
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stion
the old que
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Things that we took for granted for
w.
revie
are once again open for
ring
For example, not too long ago, secu
e
storage was mostly a non-issue sinc
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storage
was connected to computers
ds
in the data centre. Now, storage stan
own
its
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nee
and
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clou
the
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alon
se.
protection against hacking and misu
ink.
The cloud itself causes us to re-th
e
Not owning the network infrastructur
ing
filter
old
means that some of the
.
capabilities are no longer available
We have new filtering capabilities
from the cloud fabric and they
necessitate re-thinking how we
manage in cloud estates.
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