Merge API CTO: your biggest cybersecurity risk is accidentally hiring a spy
shensi · x · 2026-11-10
Merge API CTO Gil Feig argued in a June interview that the biggest cybersecurity threat comes from inside, not external scanning: "We're less afraid of someone scanning our ports and finding issues than someone phishing an internal account — or hiring someone who's secretly a spy. That stuff sounds far-fetched, but it happens. I'm actually more afraid of us bringing in someone bad than anything else."
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