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Do We Profile Western Threat Actors? #shorts

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Do we focus solely on threat actors from China and Russia? What about Western entities? The reality is complex, with gaps in visibility and assumptions needing re-evaluation. #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra #AlixiaRutayisire #QuoIntelligence
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creation of such profiles. Do you also do this for western based um entities >> or like all over the world or is that like limited to >> you? Uh by profile you mean threat actor profile? >> Yes. >> Yeah, this is actually an issue. Um I think like the O industry we have a lack of uh of yeah of sight on what western actors do and we like for sure they do but uh this is something also because we assume that we are more of a target for um actors such as China, Russia uh but yeah things can change and and I mean without even coming to thread actor I mean we know like uh um with the Snowden leaks that

uh the US for instance doesn't need a thread actor or to uh conduct a cyber operation to collect our data. Oh. Oh.