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Ryan Basden

Oct 14, 2026

12:35
Without naming names, can you share a Red Team story that changed the way you think about security and surprised you even?
12:43
Yes.
12:44
So this is actually from much earlier in my career.
12:48
This was less of a Red Team exercise, although it might as well have been based on the scope.
12:55
I was working with a company that is very heavily involved in making... big pieces of metal for things like bridges and buildings, very big buildings.
13:11
And I was naive enough at this point to think that surely because they made so much money and they had such a big building and so many customers that they would have taken the A lot of things, seriously.
13:29
I walked in there on the first day thinking this is going to be an abject failure.

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24:46
Looking ahead, what concerns you most about the next few years of cybersecurity and what gives you the most optimism?

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