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Oct 2019
27m 26s

Defending against future tech

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It’s becoming incredibly easy to purchase commercial hacking tools as new technology becomes available, so how do we defend ourselves against this? Brand Ambassador for CTRL Group and reformed Hacker Bastien Treptel invites Srini Raghuram, the Director of Security Engineering from AT&T and Alienvault to discuss what the good guys are doing to keep the rest of us safe.

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