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Ryan Macfarlane
Incident Response Practice Lead at TrustedSec and retired FBI cyber agent who led the Counterterrorism Division's Advanced Projects Unit.
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Nov 12, 2025
Lessons from an FBI veteran: AI, nation-state actors and the next wave of cyber threats with Ryan Macfarlane
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14:58Valeska BlochHOST
Can you tell us a little bit about that landscape and how it impacts the way organisations should be thinking about preparing for and responding to incidents? What's the difference in the dynamics when we're seeing those sorts of attacks?
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15:12Ryan MacfarlaneGUEST
Yeah, generally nation state actors are more strategic about their targets, right? And they're responding to government directed tasking to achieve some goal, right? So you see a lot of targeting of intellectual property or intelligence collection related to global competition, for example.
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15:35Ryan MacfarlaneGUEST
Uh, and we've seen that over the last two decades, you know, it's, you know, those areas are, you know, it's just a different end state from the cyber criminal actors out there.
Lessons from an FBI veteran: AI, nation-state actors and the next wave of cyber threats with Ryan Macfarlane
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14:04Valeska BlochHOST
Can you tell us a little bit about that landscape and how it impacts the way organisations should be thinking about preparing for and responding to incidents? What's the difference in the dynamics when we're seeing those sorts of attacks?
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14:18Ryan MacfarlaneGUEST
Yeah, generally nation state actors are more strategic about their targets, right? And they're responding to government directed tasking to achieve some goal, right? So you see a lot of targeting of intellectual property or intelligence collection related to global competition, for example.
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14:42Ryan MacfarlaneGUEST
And we've seen that over the last two decades, you know, it's those areas are, you know, it's just a different end state from the cyber criminal actors out there.
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21:59Chris KerriganHOST
What have you learned over the years in terms of what has worked well in terms of collaboration between law enforcement and corporate and perhaps lessons to be learned where things didn't work so well?