In the world of cybercrime, one of the biggest challenges is moving faster than adversaries. This year, Jason Lancaster, who has led the Investigations Team at SpyCloud for nearly a decade, spearheaded an innovation to help organizations do just that. By integrating advanced AI insights into SpyCloud’s Investigations solution, the tradecraft and thought process of veteran investigators like Jason and his team is now integrated directly into the solution to support analysts of all levels conduct investigations more comprehensively. It’s not just faster analysis, but finished intelligence, particularly because it builds on SpyCloud’s proprietary holistic identity matching capability, IDLink™ – also the byproduct of Jason’s deep, unmatched expertise.
Introduced last year, IDLink automates the process of connecting exposed identity data to construct a comprehensive and holistic view of digital identities from a single search query – generating 12-14 times more identity records, uncovering hidden connections, reducing investigative dead ends, and accelerating threat actor attribution. As one client put it, the combination of IDLink and AI insights allows insider threat reports to populate in mere seconds, eliminating the need to chase down endless digital breadcrumbs.
Jason’s work is the culmination of 30 years of cybersecurity expertise and has tangible results. Last year, organizations using AI-powered security systems saved an average of $1.76 million per breach. In addition to cost savings, the analysis and insights Jason and his team have enabled are being used to protect children from exploitation and trafficking, hunt down threat actors, disrupt criminal networks, and investigate financial crimes. Whatever the situation, Jason and his team take their responsibility to support and protect the vulnerable very seriously.
Few companies have cybersecurity experts with the pedigree and expertise that Jason brings. He has led the development of cybersecurity programs for leading enterprise organizations, worked directly with international law enforcement agencies and groups, and advised the United States Congress, Obama administration, and more on strategies to combat advanced cybercrime.
At SpyCloud in particular, his impact has been undeniable. He’s worked with agents in field offices across the country to identify the actors behind the DanaBot malware scheme, a founding member of the Cybercrime Atlas Project to map and analyze the cybercriminal ecosystem to enhance global cybersecurity efforts, and uncovered and mitigated employment fraud scams, wherein North Korean operatives pose as fraudulent remote IT workers to infiltrate Western companies and funnel earnings and sensitive information back to the DPRK.
Altogether, Jason is a true innovator who continues to use his expertise to push cybersecurity forward, with arguably unmatched results.
