2024: The Year of Cyber Vulnerability - What Investors Need to Know | Karim Hijazi

Intelligence expert Karim Hijazi says the online threats to our national security go well beyond TikTok. They are vast, largely invisible, and ever-present-and AI is only amplifying this.
Karim is the founder/CEO of cybersecurity firm Vigilocity, and we connected through Renè Aninao, the managing partner of CORBŪ.
Karim and I discuss how cyberspace has become the primary medium for spycraft and warfare among advanced nations. He says we are in a “new Cold War” that is “even more cold than it was before because it's under the surface in a fairly murky and nebulous and cryptic world that most people just don't understand.” And he backs that up with a stream of concrete examples.
You will also hear how cyberattacks produce kinetic damage, why your personal laptop might be a bigger target than you’d think, and where Karim sees investment opportunities developing in the cybersecurity space.
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Time stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:14 - Advanced persistent threats, or “APTs”
03:47 - Why “phishing” is just the first step in attacks
07:59 - The evolution of modern espionage
10:37 - How small individual targets turn into national threats
16:10 - How cyberattacks create kinetic outcomes
18:44 - How national adversaries and cybercriminals work together
22:40 - What happens in a cyberwar among superpowers?
26:50 - US national cyber defense strategy
32:26 - Investment implications

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[@wsv1975]

fascinating. I am scared and not sure what to do!

[@LegacyGrandpa]

How about investing in security companies, CRWD, FTNT or an ETF like BUG?

[@gordonforeman9233]

With regard to Karim's comment that attacks on US infrastructure would be seen as an act of war, and might well be answered kinetically, I worry that there are too many ways to make a false-flag attack as a sort of "Let's you and him fight." Risky, perhaps, but as I understand it, it can be very difficult to be sure who is behind a given cyber attack.

[@user-lf4gy5px4f]

Thanks for the great interview with Karim Hijazi. Very scary! But left out of the conversation was an even more frightening scenerio: THE COMBINATION OF AI WITH QUANTUM COMPUTERS: Quantum computers are millions of times faster than the world's fastest computers. It is believed that China is ahead of the U.S. in this realm. So, this brings to light the possibility of FINANCIAL, as well of espionage & national security threats NOT discussed in this video. For example: 1. Could quantum/AI get into a bank or broker's computer system and empty some or all their financial accounts? 2. Could China, as a prelude to their invasion of Taiwan, shut down America's military [and allied] forces? [Note: China, in doing so, may prevent a wider war.] Note: As a septuagenarian -- for ease of investing, saving, and bill paying -- I had consolidated all my savings and investments into a single broker and bank. Now, I'm in the process of diversifying them, so that some of my resources might survive an attack by an AI linked to a quantum computer. Is this rational or paranoia?

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I have taken similar steps!