Scythe CEO Bryson Bort on Enhancing Security with Realistic Adversary Emulation

05/28/2021 | Written by: Bob Gourley

Bryson Bort is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a boutique cybersecurity consultancy. He is widely known in the cybersecurity community for helping advance concepts of defense across multiple critical domains. He is the co-founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control system security. Bryson is also a Senior Fellow for Cybersecurity and National Security at R Street and the National Security Institute and an Advisor to the Army Cyber Institute.

In this OODAcast we examine approaches Bryson has seen make positive differences in evaluating and mitigating risks to enterprises, specifically in the domain of adversary emulation.

The discussion covers:

A practitioner’s view of the state of cybersecurity
The demise of the perimeter as a security control
What leaders need to know to mitigate risk
Attack, Detect and Response tools and how their automation can help continuously mitigate risks
Mitre ATT&CK and how to use it to help frustrate adversaries
Assisting Blue Teams, Purple Teams and Red Teams with tooling
The use of cyber threat intelligence to inform automated adversary emulation

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Tagged: cybersecurity Def Con

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