Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)


CrowdStrike Co-Founder Dmitri Alperovitch on the SolarWinds Hack

January 13, 2021

521: Cybersecurity expert Dmitri Alperovitch discusses 


  • Dmitri’s perspectives on the recent US government hack believed by many to have originated in Russia, including 
    • Why the hack was not an act of war but instead was traditional espionage
    • Why this hack has potential to be 100X as significant as the OPM hack
    • Some of the silver linings of the hack

  • How organizations can protect themselves from adversaries, including 
    • Why every organization needs to start with the assumption that an attacker is already inside
    • Why trying to build walls around the perimeter of your network is futile
    • The importance of planning regularly to defend a cyber attack

  • The importance of using a password manager
  • Why individuals should be suspicious of emails and not click attachments from unknown people
  • Why our government is at its weakest point to be able to respond to this threat

Among a variety of other topics.