#713 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS We Interview Mark Elliott From The CIA To Cybersecurity & Hacking Expert

<p>From The CIA To Cybersecurity &amp; Hacking Expert</p> <p><br />Mr. Elliott is CEO of Comar Cyber, Inc., a Washington, DC-based company that specializes in government and corporate training in cybersecurity. He created the award-winning &ldquo;Learn by Hacking&rdquo; TM online cybersecurity course, with distribution deals in the US and Japan.</p> <p>Mr. Elliott served for almost two decades at the CIA, where he worked in the Directorate of Operations as a Case Officer and ops leader in field assignments.</p> <p>He has extensive experience at the intersection of HUMINT operations and technology. As a manager at CIA Headquarters, he worked with companies, investors, and other elements of government to identify, purchase, and create technologies for the CIA&rsquo;s operational use. He used his training and experience in assignments in Europe, South Asia, and Africa, as well as at HQS, to identify and counter nation-state cyber threats to protect enterprise and operational systems. Mr. Elliott, in coordination with various stakeholders, created the Agency&rsquo;s requirements for operational technology in the foreign field.</p> <p><br />Interview Questions</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>#1 - What do you see as some of the new and biggest Cybersecurity threats at the present moment?</p> <p><br />#2 - WordPress and open-source software are not as secure as proprietary software; what are your general views on this?</p> <p><br />#3 - What are some critical things website developers and designers need to understand to make their websites more secure?</p> <p><br />#4 - We seem to be in an age of Surveillance Capitalism, as popularized by Shoshana Zuboff. what are your own views on this?</p> <p><br />#5 - There has been a lot of talk TikTok about it being a significant security threat; what are your own views on this?</p> <p><br />#6 - What are your personal views on Edward Snowden and his revelations connected to the NSA?</p>