Gravwell CEO Corey Thuen on hiring for an adversarial “evil bit”
Original title: Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit
The SecurityWeek profile covers his path from youthful curiosity to INL ICS work and founding Southfork Security and Gravwell.
SecurityWeek profiles Corey Thuen, founder and CEO of Gravwell, which mixes big-data specialists with people who look for ways to exploit products. He argues that adversarial instinct is hard to teach and describes using it for defensive work, including US government evaluations of power-substation systems. The interview traces his early tinkering, computer-science degrees, a scholarship-for-service path, and work at Idaho National Laboratory until 2013, then co-founding Southfork Security with Kenneth Shaw.
- He met future Gravwell CTO Kristopher Watts at Idaho National Laboratory.
- He left INL in 2013 and co-founded Southfork Security with Kenneth Shaw.
- INL work included protecting industrial control systems and operational technology.
- He says youthful exploration stopped short of seeking systems to exploit.
- Vendors
- Gravwell
- Organizations
- Idaho National LaboratorySouthfork Security
- Countries
- United States
From the original article
9 min read at securityweek.com
Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t. The post Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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