What podcasts say about Eric Geller
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What Eric Geller has said on podcasts
23 statements · 6 positive · 9 negative · 1 mixed · 7 neutral
The cybercriminal ecosystem is too large for government personnel to address alone.
“the criminal ecosystem is huge and out of control and the government does not have enough people to go after it themselves.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 43:50
The executive order substantially expands eligible private firms and cyber targets.
“it is a huge step in terms of broadening the range of companies that do that and also broadening the range of targets that they're allowed to go after.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 44:26
The program targets criminal organizations without direct foreign-government connections.
“this is explicitly focused on any organization that's engaged in crime that does not have a direct connection to a foreign government”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 44:49
Participating cybersecurity companies will undergo strict vetting.
“there's going to be a strict vetting process.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 46:23
The government will approve or reject each private cyber operation.
“the government is going to say yes or no to every operation.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 46:40
The government should reject operations against criminal fronts secretly controlled by foreign governments.
“if a company comes to them and says, I want to hack this gang and they know that it's secretly a front for the Russian government, they're going to say no to that or hopefully they're going to say no to that.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 47:20
The program will likely target cybercrime gangs rather than Middle Eastern proxy forces.
“I would guess it's going to be less. the kind of Middle Eastern proxy forces.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 49:08
Expanding private cyber operations risks harmful collateral damage.
“you don't want to expand the range of people who do this too much because. It's so risky that you could have collateral damage that that actually hurts you”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 52:13
The program offers a middle ground by directing private-sector cyber enforcement.
“The thing I would say is this seems like a middle ground to try to get there and try to unleash the private sector to do this.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 53:26
Targeting pig-butchering compounds would demonstrate the program’s value.
“I'll be interested to see if we see the companies going after these compounds as part of this new program. I think it would be a great way to demonstrate value”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 56:04
The executive order is an opening move whose results will guide future expansion.
“I think this is. definitely their opening move and they're going to see how this goes.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 56:28
Some government officials are willing to expand the program if it succeeds.
“there are people in the government who are very willing to expand this if it works out.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 56:33
Private cyber operations may damage servers in friendly European countries.
“there is a very real possibility that as part of this program, private companies are going to end up doing some collateral damage to servers in European countries”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 57:38
Collateral damage from the program is inevitable.
“it's inevitable that we're going to see some of that collateral damage.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 58:08
More powerful open-source AI models will significantly change cybersecurity threats.
“especially as the open source models get more powerful.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 59:25
AI will substantially improve moderately sophisticated cyberattacks.
“It's the attacks in the middle that are going to get a lot better.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 59:52
Some hacked water systems exposed industrial-control equipment publicly online.
“they had their industrial control equipment publicly accessible on the Internet, which is like the number one thing you're not supposed to do.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 1:01:21
Water-system operators should remove PLCs from the public Internet.
“If you are running a water system, take PLCs off the Internet.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 1:01:32
AI systems are becoming effective at finding and explaining software vulnerabilities.
“they're getting really good at finding vulnerabilities and telling people how to actually use them.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 1:02:25
The Anthropic incident resulted from humans misconfiguring the testing environment.
“the anthropic one was interesting, too, because that was really human error. The humans misconfigured the testing environment”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 1:05:39
AI systems’ behavior is constrained by what humans permit them to do.
“these things only do what we allow them to do.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 1:07:24
AI coding advances increase the need for more cyber operators.
“I think it's a reason to put more people out there because part of this is just gathering information.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 1:08:04
AI can gather cyber intelligence but cannot decide whether action is worthwhile.
“AI can do some of that, but it can't make the judgment calls about whether it's worth doing something.”
Open the episode · Is Darlene Graham Already Done in South Carolina? US Hackers vs. Foreign Gangs (with Eric Geller)Listen at 1:08:13
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