Black Hat 2025: Microsoft's Threat Intel Experts Are “The Nerds In The Back”

28 Aug Black Hat 2025: Microsoft’s Menace Intel Specialists Are “The Nerds In The Again”

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Journal

Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 28, 2025

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When a cyberattack happens, Sherrod DeGrippo, director of menace intelligence technique at Microsoft and a frequent visitor on the Cybercrime Journal Podcast, imagines menace hunters and incident responders answering the decision to motion on a crimson rotary cellphone and swooping in to avoid wasting the day — perhaps even rappelling from helicopters like heroes in an motion film.

To DeGrippo’s disappointment, in line with BizTech, panelists on the current Black Hat 2025 USA Convention in Las Vegas admitted that it’s nothing like that. The menace intelligence specialists are “the nerds within the again,” stated Simeon Kakpovi, senior menace intelligence analyst at Microsoft. “We get to place collectively a cheat sheet that we are able to hand over [to the incident response team], as an alternative of them losing time wanting broadly.”

Travis Schack is the Principal Safety Researcher at Microsoft, and lead investigator for his or her Incident Response crew. Cybercrime Journal caught up with Schack, who beforehand served as CISO for the State of Colorado, at Black Hat, the place he informed us about what Microsoft is doing to fight immediately’s huge cyber menace panorama.

Schack, a nerd out entrance, who we met within the bustling Enterprise Corridor the place there have been tons of of exhibitors and hundreds of attendees, informed us: “You’ll be able to stroll, go searching this place, and there’s a whole lot of options, a whole lot of firms making an attempt to resolve numerous issues, cyber resilience, Enterprise Electronic mail Compromise (BEC), social engineering, and phishing, and simply giving individuals visibility to what Microsoft can do.”

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