The Cyber Frontier with Mikko Hypponen

Nov 1, 2022 by SED

Mikko Hypponen is the CRO of WithSecure and a principal research Officer at F-Secure. In this interview with our host, Jordi Mon, he discusses the eventful and rocky early start of his software engineering career, hybrid warfare, reverse engineering, recent exploits like Log for Shell and heart bleed, and more.

This episode is packed with valuable career and life lessons on dealing with the unexpected. As well as fascinating stories from the frontiers of cyber security and geopolitics, many of which are discussed in more depth in Mikko’s recent book, If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable.

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