Carbaugh, a former CIA operative who was also part of the first U.S. team deployed to Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, was interviewed during Black Hat to talk about his perspective on some of the industry’s biggest challenges: rising AI-driven threats and a shrinking pool of skilled defenders.
Reflecting about his background, he explained, “I spent so much of my time focused on counterterror direct kinetic physical threats to the United States…But you realize playing out in the background all along are those cyber threats, that are persistent, that are coming every minute of the day.”
“The community here in Las Vegas has felt the impact of these attacks across a broad array of targets,” Carbaugh said. “It does highlight the importance of the conference, bringing together people to solve challenges, we’re all feeling it, this pressure.”