EVA GALPERIN DIVIDES the targets of state-sponsored hackers into two categories: First,
there are the corporations, government agencies, and billionaires that can afford to pay
expensive cybersecurity consultants, staff 24/7 security operations centers, and hire inci-
dent responders after a breach. Then there’s everyone else—an underclass of victims who
enjoy virtually none of those pricey protections. But now they do, at least, have Eva Galperin.
Earlier this year, Galperin, the head of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Founda-
tion, formed a new and unusual team within the venerable digital rights group. For nearly
three decades, the EFF has acted as a kind of geeky nonprofit law firm, fighting to protect
online privacy and free expression in court, defending security researchers, and launching
lawsuits against everyone from patent trolls to warrantless-wiretap enablers. But Galp-
erin’s new initiative, called the Threat Lab, is more like a small, nonprofit cybersecurity
consulting firm—a sort of CrowdStrike or FireEye for the little guy.
CYBERSECURITY
Eva
Galperin
HEAD OF THREAT LAB /
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Protecting the rest of us
from hackers and spies.
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