Five by Five: Why the Cyber Defense Matrix Gets Great Reception – PSW #695
Five years after Sounil Yu originally introduced the Cyber Defense Matrix at the 2016 RSA conference, he just wrapped up the third workshop based on the framework. CDM has its own website, is an official OWASP project and has a forthcoming book. We talk to Sounil today to learn more about where the CDM came from, why people find it so useful and where it might be headed in the future.
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Adrian is an outspoken researcher that doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable truths. He loves to write about the security industry, tell stories, and still sees the glass as half full.
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Sounil Yu is the CTO and Co-Founder of Knostic. He is the creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Triad. Previously, he was Bank of America’s Chief Security Scientist and the CISO at JupiterOne. He is a FAIR Institute Board Member and a GMU National Security Institute fellow.