You've Probably Been Hacked Already

If you’re looking for yet another worry to keep you up at night,
consider this: pretty much every category of cyber attack
increased in the past 12 months. And we’re not talking small
scale numbers, either. Ransomware, encrypted threats and
crypto-jacking attacks all more than doubled in this country last
year.  In total, more than 1 billion attacks – from small
scale home PC invasions to attacks that threatened our critical
industries and infrastructure. And the trend line isn’t going
down any time soon.  


Jeff Moulton is President and CEO of the Stephenson Stellar
Corporation, a not-for-profit applied research firm focused on
cybersecurity for its customers, most of whom are federal
agencies.


Jeff is a return guest on the show. You may remember our visit
with him in 2021. At that time Jeff was also leading the LSU
Stephenson National Center for Security Research and Training.
But at the beginning to 2022, Jeff left that position to focus
his effort solely on the Stephenson Stellar Corporation, which is
a fascinating story with so many threads that are unraveled in
this conversation.


Jeff is a native of Pennsylvania, who had a 24 year career in the
United States Air Force, where he held a diverse array of
technical and leadership positions around the world. He then went
on to leadership positions in technical and security-related
research organizations, including Concurrent Technologies
Corporation, the US Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center, and the
Georgia Tech Research Institute, before coming to Louisiana to
join the LSU Stephenson Center more than a decade ago.


Out to Lunch Baton Rouge is recorded live over lunch
at Mansurs on the Boulevard. You can find photos from this
by Erick Otts at itsbatonrouge.la.


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