#1684167: How One Security Company Took the Fight to the Adversary

BRI comment: white paper Sophos
Description: Season 2 of the Cyber Leaders Podcast continues with one of its most provocative episodes yet.

In Episode 11, hosts James Lyne and Ciaran Martin sit down with Ross McKerchar, CISO at Sophos, for an unfiltered look at Pacific Rim, a years-long effort to disrupt and observe Chinese nation-state actors targeting Sophos firewalls at global scale.

Ross shares what few CISOs ever do:

How Sophos ran a silent counter-operation for five years
What real transparency looks like in the face of compromise
How the CISO role is changing—and why trust, not perfection is key
And how industry norms need to shift around visibility, bug bounties, and vendor accountability
More info: https://view.email.sans.org/?qs=e05393eed205eac410a898659e9babadbe633f48c9690e2e44fb0d42afc7493c25869e51736a2fb70dbfa61316ca83e5ef1923082073ae2b7121ddc4f1357ac598a84a1be120f44a6ed8977ffa64d8b925463c29bfdbb9ff

Date added May 31, 2025, 6:38 p.m.
Source SANS
Subjects
  • PodCasts / Webcast / Webinar / eSummit / Virtual Event etc.
  • Security Management/Strategic Security/ROI/ROSI - CISO and Higher Level
  • White Papers on Security