Empowering and Defending the Defenseless with Jen Miller-Osborn, the Deputy Director of Threat Intelligence for Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks

IT Visionaries

For as long as Jen Miller-Osborn can remember, she’s been infatuated with puzzles. The thought-process behind mining for an isolated piece and finding its greater purpose has always been fuel for her ambition. For Jen, she connects her love of puzzling to her responsibilities as the Deputy Director of Threat Intelligence for Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks. With the company, she is tasked with identifying, preventing and addressing some of the internet's most dangerous attackers. On this episode of IT Visionaries, Jen details everything that goes into the job, and what her biggest security concerns are these days.

3 Key Takeaways

• The knowledge you get from data is not what keeps your networks safe. It’s the ability to understand that data and apply defenses against it
• IT departments have evolved from managers and administrators to defense protection and cybersecurity
• The downside to publishing threat intel is it allows attackers to adapt strategies

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