RSAC 2024: Identifying and Securing Against Next-Gen Threats

Paul Reid, global head of threat intelligence at OpenText Cybersecurity, joins Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss the findings of the company’s 2024 Threat Perspective Report. The report focused largely on small and midsized businesses, but he enumerates the threats that larger enterprise are up against. Reid also discusses an emerging phenomenon he calls “next-generation threats,” as well as some innovative new offerings to help organizations of all sizes protect themselves against the next-gen challenges.

Paul Reid is Global Head of Threat Intelligence at OpenText Cybersecurity. A veteran of the complex, fast-paced world of cybersecurity, Paul has served as a technology strategist for more than two decades at innovative technology companies. Leveraging his deep expertise in cybersecurity, biometrics, network security, cryptography, and more, Paul helps guide customers, partners, industry analysts, and journalists through the intricate cybersecurity landscape. Most recently he led a team of cyber threat hunters leveraging behavioral analytics to find emerging threats in customer environments.

Paul is a frequent keynote speaker and has shared his perspectives at several prominent industry conferences including the NATO Information Assurance Symposium, SANS@Night, and Microsoft TechED. He is a published author in the Prentice Hall Series in Computer Networking and Distributed Systems. Paul also holds several patents in cybersecurity.