About this episode

Tony Robinson discusses IoT Hunter, a tool for automating detection rules for IoT vulnerabilities.

Send us fan mail! Hello to all our Cyber Squirrels! Host Selena Larson, and guest host, Tim Kromphardt sit down with Tony Robinson — Senior Security Research Engineer and “rule magician” from Proofpoint’s Emerging Threats team. Tony shares the story behind IoT Hunter, an open-source tool he created to automate writing detection rules for Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerabilities. From routers and smart cameras to industrial control systems, Tony breaks down how IoT Hunter helps researchers and...

People in this episode

Host: Selena Larson

Guest: Tim Kromphardt

Topics covered

• IoT security
• vulnerabilities
• open-source tools
• cybersecurity
• detection rules

Keywords

• IoT
• security
• vulnerabilities
• detection rules
• open-source
• cybersecurity
• IoT Hunter

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Proofpoint

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