Origin Stories Episode 3: Katie Moussouris, The Hacker (Part 1)

In this episode of the Advancing Cyber Podcast, we talk with Katie Moussouris, hacker, founder and CEO of Luta Security,and pioneer in vulnerability disclosure and responsible security research. Katie shares her experiences from her early days of cybersecurity and unpacks the evolution of vulnerability disclosure and the pressures on the security research community, managing bug bounties and working with researchers, and the importance of security standards. Katie and host Cristin Flynn Goodwin also unpack the challenge of Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure and what happens when industry quietly fixes an issue, and government doesn’t know about the interim risks. Katie highlights the challenges of governments assessing vulnerability equities and the tradeoffs of government exploitation and relative risk.

Stay tuned for Part 2 where we dive into export control and restrictions on software, and the rise of AI in cybersecurityand coding. We’ll explore the risks of vulnerabilities developed by AI-assisted coding and what that will mean for vulnerability disclosure in the future.