Decipher Podcast: Reddit’s Matt Johansen on Identity Attacks, Enterprise Security, and Burnout
Reddit's head of application security Matt Johansen joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the highlights of Black Hat USA, the
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Dennis Fisher
Editor in ChiefDennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist who has been covering information security and privacy since 2000.
He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and most of his kids’ English papers.
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