Cyber Security Update with Retired USAF Colonel Brian Denman

In episode two of our podcast series Compass Check: Global Affairs, Jason Pandak, Vice President of Capital Markets at AmeriVet Securities, connects with cybersecurity expert and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Brian Denman. Colonel Denman is a member of our advisory board and he retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2019, after a distinguished 25-year career in communications and cyberspace warfare.

In part one of a three-part discussion, Colonel Denman provides a deep dive on:

• The historic CrowdStrike outage and key takeaways, including incident response and risk management
• The Kaspersky Lab ban, trusted provider risks to national security, and why trusted providers who act in bad faith can create incidents much worse than the CrowdStrike outage

References:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Executive-Summary_Root-Cause-Analysis_Channel-File-291.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BitLocker-recovery-without-recovery-keys-2.0.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/tech-analysis-kernel-access-security-architecture/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-tools/

https://www.georgetown.edu/news/ask-a-professor-crowdstrike-outage/#:~:text=Because%20so%20many%20core%20systems,other%20routine%20societal%20systems%20affected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-crowdstrike-tech-outage-reignited-a-battle-over-the-heart-of-microsoft-systems-72b62c90