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Former FBI agent thought he had seen it all in cybercrime. Then he became a corporate executive in charge of information security

For cybersecurity workers, 2021 was intense. There was the Russian-based ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, a key transit system for U.S. oil, that set off panic-buying at the gas pumps. Meanwhile, major U.S. meat packer JBS was shut down by yet another attack. And then there was the U.S. federal government, which suffered one of its worst cyber espionage breaches ever, due to aftershocks created by the hacking of software maker SolarWinds.

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by Dune Research Team
11 Mar 2025
March 11, 2025

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