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It? for that let s bring in a leading cyber expert, runs the silverado policy accelerator and was a founder of cybersecurity company crowdstrike. dimitri, good to see you. thanks for having me, chris. so first, am i exaggerating any of this? how real is the threat in terms of growing scope, scale? you re not. i hate to use the word that it s an epidemic in the midst of an actual pandemic but it really is coming to that. when they re going after our food security, our food supply, when they re going after our gas, when they re going after our hospitals. we had a huge outbreak in hospitals last year in the midst of a pandemic. critical surgeries have been postponed. they have even gone after breweries and distilleries if you can believe that, chris. truly nothing is sacred anymore. but the reality is every type of business is under attack. schools, police departments. the d.c. police department was hit a few months ago and had to had its confidential files
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So it s time we take it seriously. the co-founder of crowdstrike, a hacking prevention expert, is going to give you the real deal about the scope of the problem and what can be done but isn t being done to stop it, next. it would be cool to ride a horse on the moon. advil dual action fights pain 2 ways.
I ll tell you in a second. remember last month s gas pipeline attack? that s what they got paid in. it s easier than selling the data that they used to steal from places like banks and insurance companies. why? because that had to be done in cash or some kind of currency. and what can you do with currency? you can track it. how about cryptocurrency? not so much. now you see why it is proliferating as cryptocurrency is as well. so how real and how do you stop it? for that let s bring in a leading cyber expert, runs the silverado policy accelerator and was a founder of cybersecurity company crowdstrike. dimitri, good to see you. thanks for having me, chris. so first, am i exaggerating any of this? how real is the threat in terms of growing scope, scale? you re not. i hate to use the word that it s