HackerOne had sent a cadre of cybersecurity professionals––most skinny young men, most wearing sweatshirts––to provide counsel.
Cybersecurity professionals spend a lot of time keeping the bad guys out.
More important than the money was the opportunity to inspire normally apolitical cybersecurity professionals to get involved, said Jeff Moss, the event's other co-conspirator.
The program, called Federal Cyber Reskilling Academy, aims to help the government address a lack of cybersecurity professionals in the federal workforce.
The idea to organize cybersecurity professionals and get them to work for Hillary Clinton's election campaign was in the works for more than a month before, says Jake Braun, CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors and co-organizer of the event.
Sounding a common note among cybersecurity professionals, Mr. Wong said that "the time from the discovery of a new vulnerability to the release of an exploit targeting that vulnerability is rapidly shrinking".
A collaborative effort involving governments, manufacturers, and cybersecurity professionals is needed to address the privacy and security concerns arising from OBD.
When it comes to safeguarding staffers' personal accounts, the handbook only suggests that they "enlist professional input from credentialed IT and cybersecurity professionals as needed". This is as useful as telling a potential cholera victim to hire a microbiologist.
In response, businesses and cybersecurity professionals are tightening up their defences through machine learning techniques – the advantage being that they're able to find patterns in malware behaviour more quickly, accurately and efficiently than humans (and at scale).
Facebook was arguably the most important battleground for information warfare in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, and its chief security officer says cybersecurity professionals need to do more to protect Internet users from bad actors.
Cybersecurity professionals warned that because many of the three billion Yahoo accounts belong to people who use the same passwords for different sites and services, there is likely to be an escalation of email fraud and account takeovers.
