Cupid & Hercules (Groom Lake) on Preventing and Responding to Cybercrime (EP.658)
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On today's episode, I sat down with Cupid and Hercules of the Groom Lake team. Groom Lake is a security firm focused on both protecting companies in the crypto space from exploits and recovering funds when exploits do occur. Today's guests' true identities remain redacted for security purposes given their field of work, but they were generous enough to join me for a discussion on cybersecurity and crypto and how today's attackers are looking to carry out cybercrime. In the episode, we discussed the threat posed by nation state level threat actors, what companies should be doing to enhance thei
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Kupin Hercules from Groom Lake. Appreciate you guys joining us. I wanna dive right in. My understanding of Groom Lake, and I think what people in the industry might be vaguely familiar with, is that it's a private military organization combating cybercrime and crypto specifically. What does that mean, and what happens when you guys are called into action?
So Groom Lake, while we don't own any tanks or things like that, we on top of the retained approach to security and intelligence that we do, that military aspect really comes in when you're looking at not just the intelligence work to do some very strategic campaigns to find out information, but also the incident response aspect because we can deploy to physically go after hackers as well. So that's where that military aspect really comes to play.
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