How to Ruin an APT's Day, with Sara McBroom

About this episode

Sara McBroom discusses her journey in threat intelligence and the importance of making bad actors miserable.

This week, the B-Team gets an upgrade as we’re joined by Sara McBroom from Talos’ nation-state threat intelligence and interdiction team. Sara shares her journey from a liberal arts major to tracking some of the world’s most advanced adversaries. Along the way, she talks about moving from the U.S federal service to Talos, mentoring, leading with empathy, and why making bad actors miserable is a pretty good day’s work. Before diving into Sara’s story, we hit the security headlines (ouch) and a...

People in this episode

Guest: Sara McBroom

Topics covered

• APT
• threat intelligence
• mentoring
• cybersecurity
• nation-state threats

Keywords

• APT
• threat intelligence
• cybersecurity
• mentoring
• nation-state threats

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Talos, U.S federal service

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