Welcome to Cybersecurity Insights and Perspectives

Host Kevin Greene and guest James Hill, associate professor of computer science at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, discuss the state of static analysis tools and capabilities. Hill talks about the challenges and issues — and ways to reduce false-positive rates found in many state-of-the-art static analysis tools. Hill is currently working on research and development projects aimed at improving the performance of these tools.

Host Kevin Greene and guest George Kurtz, president and CEO of Crowdstrike, discuss the role of indicators of compromise in today's threat landscape, and the advantages of using indicators of attack to build proactive defenses. Kurtz also talks about moving beyond traditional antivirus endpoint protection to detecting, preventing and responding to attacks in real time.

Host Kevin Greene and guest Lethia Jackson, professor of computer science at Bowie State University, discuss the success of integrating DHS S&T’s Software Assurance Marketplace, or SWAMP, into the BSU computer science curriculum to improve secure coding practices. SWAMP is a collaborative research infrastructure from the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate that helps developers examine their software code for security bugs.