Aug 30, 2022

Joining the podcast this week is Stefan Soesanto, Senior Researcher in the Cyberdefense Project with the Risk and Resilience Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. He recently authored the excellent research report “IT Army of Ukraine” that examined in detail how it was stood up out...

Aug 23, 2022

Joining us this week is Brian Knappenberger, a producer and director renowned for such documentaries as Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, and Turning Point: 9/11, to name a few. He shares insights from...

Aug 16, 2022

We go deep into the dark web and ransomware with this week’s guest Tom Hofmann, SVP, Intelligence at Flashpoint. He tracks ransomware from its beginnings in 1989 through to present day ransomware gang shenanigans including Maze double extortion tactics that attackers have enthusiastically embraced. He also gets real...

Aug 9, 2022

John Shier, Senior Security Advisor at Sophos, joins the podcast this week for a deep dive into today’s ransomware threat landscape and insights uncovered in the recent Sophos research reports, including the “2022 State of Ransomware Report” and “Active Adversary Playbook”. We explore future state themes of...

Aug 2, 2022

This week Rob McDonald, SVP of Platform at Virtru joins the podcast to double-click into the privacy and data discussion. We explore subsidizing the pain of giving personal data in exchange for ‘free’ services, informed consent, regulation alone isn’t a silver bullet, and what outcomes we could we drive when we...