GHIDRA DESCRIBED AS 'AN ARROW IN THE QUIVER'
An ‘arrow in the quiver’
Joyce gave a speech last week to industry executives outlining how the U.S. government would do more to disrupt and deter foreign hacking. Asked if Ghidra was part of that approach of publicizing foreign malicious activity, he called it “one of the arrows in the quiver.”
“It is a piece of technology that supports that broad effort we have to do to understand the threats, figure out where the threats are coming from, how they’re evolving,” said Joyce, who has spent more than two decades of his career at the NSA.
“Is it a game-changer in that?” Joyce said. “No. Like I said, there are other reversing tools…But this one lets us do our mission in a very effective way.”
One measure of Ghidra’s adoption outside of the agency’s base at Fort Meade will be with young people. Joyce said he has seen college students competing in “capture the flag” hacking contests using pirated software because authentic reverse-engineering tools can be expensive.
“If I go to the next capture-the-flag contest and I see some college students using Ghidra, I will be really excited,” he said.
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