Dustin Decker

Spyware in the Crosshairs?

The State Department is implementing a new policy today that will allow the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware.

This new policy is the most recent action in the United States’ comprehensive approach to countering the misuse of commercial spyware. 

The governments of Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have come together to declare “Commercial spyware has been misused across the world by authoritarian regimes and in democracies.”

On March 27th of 2003 an Executive Order prohibited the United States Government from using commercial spyware. This week the Justice Department announced policies allowing the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware.

Here’s the problem: Governments move at government speed. Technology moves at Internet speed. We cannot hope to legislate ourselves out of a technology problem.

Dustin Decker

Hello World! My name is Dustin Decker, and I am a full-time security researcher and student with over twenty years of experience as an information systems engineer. I am currently beginning my senior year pursuing my second bachelor’s degree in applied Cybersecurity (BACS) with the SANS Technology Institute. I anticipate graduating in May of 2024. I am a skilled Information Security Analyst with expertise in risk management framework (RMF), systems development life cycle (SDLC), security life cycle, management of a wide range of vulnerabilities and threats, fundamental business analysis, and project management. Skills: Microsoft Azure FedRAMP, Puppet, Artifactory, Django, Riverbed Steelscript, Riverbed SteelCentral NetShark, Vagrant, Chocolatey, MuleSoft, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, BASH Scripting, PowerShell, RHEL, DevOps, Docker, Visual Studio, BeEf, Bucket Finder, TLS-Scan, CeWL, JQ, Masscan, Metasploit/Meterpreter, Zenmap, Nmap, Mimikatz, SpiderFoot, Unshadow + John, Volatility, and personal new favorite: SRUM-Dump. I specialize in providing IT security expertise and guidance in support of security assessments and continuous monitoring for government (FISMA & NIST) and commercial clients. I am comfortable in heterogenous environments with tens of thousands of hosts.

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