Cybersecurity Unplugged

Chris Miller, Ph. D. is an associate professor of International History at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Miller is a doctor whose research has focused on Russian history, politics and economics. He is also the author of "Putinomincs: Power and Money in Resurgent Russian," and "We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter The Great to Putin."

Dr. Nikki Robinson, a full-time security architect for IBM, is an expert in statistical data analysis, quantitative methods and risk management. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Dr. Robinson also discusses application development of Kubernetes and cloud containers, how we get our hands around the software supply chain as it relates to cloud containers and more.

Amit Shah is the director of product marketing at Dynatrace and one of the guys who discovered the Log4j vulnerability early on. This episode dives into vulnerabilities.

Andrew Shikiar, executive director of FIDO Alliance, knows more about the password economy than anybody else in the industry. Shikiar has been around both the open system standards space and the promotion and marketing of Linux and Java with a focus on identity management for companies like Sun Microsystems, with an emphasis on developer mindsets and the most recent acceleration of streaming media...

We're fortunate enough to host a couple of the industry's best and brightest: Richard Bird and Tom Kellermann. Bird and Kellermann join us today to discuss each battlefield and what they think we need to do to prevail and turn the race back. To this, Kellermann weighs in on education.

Nicolas M. Chaillan is the first chief software officer for the United States Air Force and Space Force and a former special adviser for cloud security and DevSecOps at the Department of Defense within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Chaillan was also the former special advisor for cybersecurity and chief architect for cyber.gov at the Department of Homeland Security. 

Mark Cristiano, the commercial director of global business services for Rockwell Automation, has spent the last 30 years in IT and enterprise and manufacturing systems leadership, about 19 of which were spent with Rockwell Automation.

When Seemplicity was established, Sirkis and his team went through a comprehensive ideation process: speaking with more than 70 CISOs in the U.S., Europe and in Isreal. It was clear that the security team felt that they had enough tools to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities across the organization. To this, Sirkis weighs in on how Seemplicity is creating a new category in the market.

David Monnier, chief evangelist at Team Cymru provides extensive threat landscape visibility beyond the perimeter to help threat hunters and analysts improve their abilities to identify cyberattacks in advance in today's world of threat intelligence.

From a marketing point of view, events are about brand awareness and demand generation, pipeline acceleration, media relations and more, but COVID-19 had different plans for marketers. Netzer weighs in on how difficult it's gotten to rise above the noise after transitioning to digital. 

Victoria Beckman is the director of the Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) for the Americas at Microsoft. DCU is responsible for implementing strategies to disrupt cybercrime. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Beckman discusses the downstream implications of countries dispersing and distributing operations and data assets, how Microsoft and the DCU unit are dealing with cyberattacks, and how prep...

Moshe Zioni, VP of security research at Apiiro has been researching security for over 20 years in multiple industries. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Zioni discusses the downstream dependencies on other open source programs that are called by API, how organizations can best mitigate future ransomware attacks, specifically around supply chain and open source, and the difference between...

Jonatan Khanashvili is a senior research lead at Hunters who spends every waking moment hunting bad actors in cyberspace. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Khanashvili also discusses how Hunters is dealing with the big golden SAML attack and how the attack works, detection and hunting techniques used to find and identify the bad guys, a potential solution, and who is at risk of a SAML at...

Richard Bird is the chief product officer for SecZetta. Bird is a multi time C level executive in both the corporate and startup worlds and is internationally recognized for his expert insights, work and views on cybersecurity data privacy, digital consumer rights and identity centric security. He's also a senior fellow with the CyberTheory Zero Trust Institute.

Peter Bordow is the senior vice president, principal architect and head of quantum systems and emerging technology for information and cybersecurity at Wells Fargo Bank. Before Wells Fargo. Anything that Bordow tells us today is his personal opinion and not the opinion or official position of Wells Fargo Bank. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Bordow discusses the quantum computing hype...

Rui Ribeiro is the CEO and founder of Jscrambler, a bootstrap global business that serves over 43,000 customers worldwide. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Ribeiro discusses marketing material in website and application code and how his product works to identify corrupt code, the nature of polymorphic and how Jscrambler deals with it, and how the ever expanding threat landscape impacts...

Chaim Mazal, CISO at Kandji, is the market leader in Apple device management and security. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Mazal discusses what Kandji does to help organizations have seamless ease of development across the global landscape, the risk framework where CISOs can identify and prioritize threats, and the kind of leverage that's required for meaningful change.        

In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Gupta discusses how her outbound marketing messaging suggests that you've embedded the five principles of Zero Trust Security into your approach, the product that Rubrik built towards protecting and managing data, and how Rubrik provides value in Zero Trust, data security and what it takes to provide data resilience to enterprises.

Tim Danks is the founder and an advisor/consultant for Global Risk Perspectives with 35 years of global experience in the Technology industry. In this episode, Danks discusses additional steps we need to take in terms of understanding our entire supply chain and identifying: What needs to be done to protect our critical infrastructure? Which aspects of our supply chain are at risk?  

David Bruce is the global security lead for product marketing and the mainframe software division for Broadcom. Bruce has been in and around the market for years and knows how today's world is unprecedented in terms of noise levels and competition. There isn't a market without some competition, but there's insight as to why many of today's marketing approaches aren't quite cutting it. 

As creator of Think. Design. Cyber. and the idea behind systems thinking feeding design thinking, Kale explores the need for and use cases around systems and design thinking in cybersecurity marketing. Kale discusses telling your systems marketing story in terms of what it provides and what outcome it creates and more.   

Roger Sels is VP Solutions, EMEA at BlackBerry, helping maximize cyber program value and impact. Today, Sels is back to revisit the digital world of SolarWinds and the global threat landscape, as well as BlackBerry's point of view.

Lynn Peachey serves as the director of business development, connecting clients and partners with cyber security solutions at Arete Incident Response, an insurance company and security insurance space. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Peachey uses her experience in cyber insurance to weigh in on the changes in data quantification in the security insurance space in terms of responding to...

Hany Abdel-Khalik is an associate professor at Purdue University in the School of Nuclear Engineering and uses his background and expertise to discuss patterns he's seen in AI and the ability to automate things that humans understand very well, how AI is skyrocketing all over the world in cybersecurity, and cybersecurity as a science: Understanding the impact of attacks and the knowledge behind sy...

Dr. Chase Cunningham, also known as the 'doctor of Zero Trust, is the current chief strategy officer at Ericom Software. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Dr. Cunningham discusses getting a bigger and better view of the Zero Trust model in cyber warfare, his book, Cyber Warfare - Truth, Tactics and Strategies: How different things are used to crawl through the applications of artificial...