POLITICO – GOOGLE EMAIL SECURITY GURU SPEAKS — MC recently caught up with Mark Risher, director of product management at Google with an emphasis on security and privacy. A few highlights:
— Election security threats are broader than one country or one group of people, Risher said. “One of the headlines that shows up often is this focus on Russia and the Democrats in 2016. That oversimplifies,” he said, referring to Google’s recently reported alerts to Hill staffers and lawmakers that state-sponsored hackers targeted their Gmail accounts. While Risher’s team doesn’t put much effort into attribution, he said that “tactics, techniques and procedures tend to go viral once a group sees something working.”
