Cybersecurity Unplugged

Dr. Darren Williams is the CEO and founder of BlackFog, Inc., as well as a leader in on-device data privacy. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Dr. Williams discusses how BlackFog applies medical professionalism to cybersecurity, medicine and design drug therapy in cybersecurity ransomware: the lifecycle of disease, spreading and destroying it, and defining behavioral analytics to protect...

David Kruger is the VP of strategy and co-founder of Abiso and uses his knowledge to weigh in on data hardening and its impact on identity and access management. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Kruger discusses military intelligence and Abiso: Creating a new tactical battlefield communication system, the concept of data ownership vs. the information of data, and the future of the softw...

Avi Shua is the brilliant CEO and co-founder of Orca Security and leader of Instant-On Cloud Security. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Shua discusses his idea of a Cloud Security solution: Asset and infrastructure visibility, Cloud Orchestration and how Orca Security mediates the problem of extra layers and confusion, and how using the solution helps to identify risk sensitive data and...

Jeff Williams is the co-founder and CTO of Contrast Security and the founder of the OWASPA foundation. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Williams discusses how working from home impacts software development and security, the use of executive order: Zero Trust, security labels and creating visibility in the market, and company mandates and making the market more competitive by achieving a...

Ravi Patil is Director of Product Management and Strategy at Broadcom. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Patil discusses the importance of effective messaging in marketing, breaking away from the norm when it comes to engaging with your customers, and the human experience in MIT.      

Kyle Flaherty is the SVP of global marketing for Cybereason and a tech executive who is known for launching high-profile technology startups with four successful exits. In today's episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Flaherty discusses: The impact of Cybereason's brand; Importance of brand campaign awareness Effective brand campaigns to focus on and why. 

Pete Hanlon is the group chief technology officer for Moneypenny and has spent about 25 years in the IT and InfoSec business. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Hanlon discusses: Digital transformation from a business impact point of view; The goal of digital transformation; Building a culture of change with digital transformation.

Cali Yost is the leading authority on high performance work flexibility, a visionary workplace futurist, strategist, author and keynote speaker. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Yost discusses: The security vulnerabilities that remote work has created; Remote work and its impact on productivity and social conventions; How the reintegration of the hybrid workforce is placing pressure on...

Rudy Shoushany has wide experience in the information technology field, particularly in the financial sector with over 20 years of experience which gives him the ability to aid organizations. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Shoushany discusses: How to tackle the global talent shortage; The differences in the UAE and the US's approach to digital transformation; How adopting a digital tr...

Redvers "Red" Curry is the chief marketing officer at vFortified, a leader in the IoT device identity space. vFortified uses a unique, intelligent, disconnected external receptor to instrument a device's electromagnetic footprint and then they process that telemetry in the cloud in real-time. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Curry discusses: Threat detection for operational technology a...

Sherry Lowe is the distinguished chief marketing officer at Exabeam. She was also the former CMO at Expanse and served in a similar role at Druva and Splunk. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Lowe discusses: Standing out in a market full of lookalikes; Not allowing a focus on metrics to run and ruin marketing efforts; Eliminating the competitive nature between sales and marketing.

Dr. Chase Cunningham, aka the 'Doctor of Zero Trust', is a recipient of industry awards like the Most Influential People in Security, and is currently Ericom's chief strategy officer. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Dr. Cunningham discusses: How the Zero Trust strategy was developed and has existed for nearly 20 years now; How to deal with the discomfort of change while implementing Ze...

Tony Scott is the chairman of the TonyScottGroup and a senior advisor for cybersecurity and policy at Squire Patton Boggs, a prominent international law firm. Until January of 2017, he was serving as the CIO within the Obama administration. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Scott discusses: How sacrificing security for interoperability got us to where we are today; Taking an incremental...

Ari Redbord is the head of legal and government affairs at TRM Labs, the leading blockchain intelligence company in the industry. Prior to joining TRM, Redbord was the senior adviser to the deputy secretary and the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the US Treasury. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Redbord discusses: Tacking down criminals by tracing the flow of...

Dan Bowden is the CISO at Sentara Health, a 130-year-old health care provider with a team of 30,000 people delivering quality healthcare across 12 hospitals. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Bowden discusses: Blockchain solutions in healthcare; The shift to telemedicine; Real risks around medical device security.

Ted Harrington is the author of  Hackable: How to do Application Security Right  and the executive partner at Independent Security Evaluators. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Harrington discusses: The dangers of connected medical devices and how he and his team have identified vulnerabilities in passive medical devices; How most organizations are doing it wrong and don't understand how...

Sam Curry is the chief security officer at Cybereason. He has devoted his career to empowering defenders in cyber conflict and fulfilling the promise of security enabling a safe, reliable, connected world. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Curry discusses: Financing and building up an agile cybersecurity company; Improving company recognizability and trust by using commercial media, stre...

Jeremy Grant is the managing director of technology business strategy for Venable. Grant has been a major contributor to improving the privacy and security of sensitive online transactions as a senior executive advisor to the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which is part of the NIST identity management, authentication and proofing initiative. In this episode of Cybersecurit...

Eve Maler is the distinguished CTO at ForgeRock. Previously, she was an identity solutions architect with PayPal and a technology director at Sun Microsystems where she co-founded and made major contributions to the SAML standard. In a previous life, she co-invented XML. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Maler discusses: Creating an architecture for meaningful consent; Social sign-on, si...

David Elichman is the vice president of global events at Information Security Media Group (ISMG), where he leads a global team that manages to create and curate events that attract thousands of cybersecurity professionals around the world In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Elichman discusses:   Using relevant content and compelling speakers to drive engagement; The evolution of technology...

Don Cox is the distinguished CISO at American Public Education, Inc. and former CISO at MEDNAX, a multi-billion dollar healthcare network with 8,000 employees. Cox also spent the majority of his prior career working for federal agencies in cybersecurity. He's had leadership experience at Ise, the Department of Energy, State Department, parts of Health and Human Resources, and the US Secret Service...

Brian Barnier is the distinguished director of analytics at ValueBridge Advisors. Barnier is also professor of operations finance and economics at the graduate level across several U.S. universities. He is the 2021 recipient of the Joseph J. Wasserman award. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Barnier discusses: The coursework on applying critical and design thinking to cybersecurity that...

Rebecca Herold is CEO and co-founder of Privacy and Security Brainiacs. She's also a Ponemon Institute fellow and the CEO and founder of Rebecca Harold LLC, a cloud-based privacy and security firm. She is currently finishing her 20th published book on information security and privacy. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Herold discusses: The gap in cybersecurity education and how to incorp...

David Brumley is the CEO of ForAllSecure, a cybersecurity company whose products are based on Mayhem, the amazing machine that David designed to autonomously and in real-time apply patching and continuous penetration testing. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Brumley discusses: Software flaw detection and how Brumley developed Mayhem; Brumley's contract with the Pentagon to find coding f...

Joe Head is co-founder of INTRUSION, a cybersecurity company that approaches cyber defense from the inside out, leveraging real-time AI to kill cyberattacks before they become breaches.  In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Head discusses: The difference between trying to modify human behavior and implementing robust security; How INTRUSION's product, Shield, satisfies the principles of zer...