Cybersecurity Unplugged

Kadee Russ specializes in open-economy macroeconomics and international trade policy. She is a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, serving as a faculty research associate for the NBER's International Trade and Investment program and as co-organizer of the International Trade and Macroeconomics workshops. In...

Rob Clyde is a senior board director of ISACA, the chairman of the board for White Cloud Security and an advisor to ShardSecure. Rob has a long history in cybersecurity education and training. ISACA's recent 2021 State of Cybersecurity Study reported that 61% of respondents say that cybersecurity teams are understaffed and 55% report that they have unfilled cybersecurity positions. Among other top...

Richard Bird is the chief customer information officer for Ping Identity. Bird is a well-known, identity-centric security expert, a former CISO and CIO. In addition, Richard serves as the global head of identity for JPMorgan Chase's consumer businesses.  In this episode, Bird discusses: How deep do the application controls need to go if identity is the new perimeter; Personal identity wallets as a...

Roger Lang is the general partner of the venture capital fund known as BCP Blitz. Rogers is also the CEO and founder of Predicta.com, the leader in advanced AI market analytics and data science. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Lang discusses: The venture capitalist's view on the state of cybersecurity; How economic issues are causing global ecological issues such as Chronic Wasting Dis...

Tal Kollender is the CEO, co-founder and CISO of GYTPOL, a company whose product monitors and remediates risks caused by misconfigurations. GYTPOL changes the way organizations protect themselves by seeing their network through the eyes of a hacker. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Tal Kollender discusses: The lessons learned from the Colonial Pipeline attack; How GYTPOL "thinks like a...

Elisabeth Braw, is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine. She also frequently writes op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Politico. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Braw discusses: The Colonial Pipeline attack and our lack of preparedness; How to create more public awareness about responding to cyberattacks...

Lynn Peachey is an expert in cyber insurance, currently serving as the Director of Business Development at Arete Incident Response, a company in the cybersecurity insurance space. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Peachey discusses: What cybersecurity insurance is and what it covers; What would have happened if Colonial Pipeline had been insured; Risks, rates and trends in the insurance...

Heather Monthie, PhD is an accomplished cybersecurity professional, leader, author, podcaster and mentor. She has nearly 25 years experience in cybersecurity, computer science, IT, aviation and STEM education. She has served as a vice president, dean and Professor of IT and cybersecurity and has served in leadership positions in STEM and CTE education in K-12 and higher education. Dr. Monthie curr...

Janine Darling is the founder and CEO of STASH, a data compromise and ransomware protection solution. She is an award-winning CXO and technical strategist who has held prominent leadership roles for commercial product and service companies of multiple genres. She has driven the expansion and profitability of many well-known global brands including Sony, Barnes & Noble, Everlast, Chanel, Mark, Nest...

Richard Stiennon is the chief research analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 2,600+ vendors in the IT security industry. He has held leadership positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Webroot and Fortinet. Previously, he was a research VP at Gartner for their IT Security Research Practice and held CMO and CSO roles.

Tom Kellermann is the head of cybersecurity strategy for VMware. Prior to this role, Kellermann was the chief cybersecurity officer for Carbon Black. Tom serves as the Wilson Center's Global Fellow for Cybersecurity Policy and sits on the Technology Executive Council for CNBC. In this episode, Kellermann discusses: The vulnerability of U.S. energy infrastructure; The geopolitical motivations behin...

Sheryl Root is Program Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley MSc in Technology Ventures program and Sandy Carter is Vice President, Public Sector Partners and Programs at AWS. As two successful women in tech, Sandy and Sheryl recognize that there's a lot of work to be done to increase the number of women in tech, but they are nowhere near giving up. In this episode, Root and Cart...

Ibrahim "Abe" Baggili is an internationally recognized expert in cybersecurity and digital forensics. He is the founder and co-director of the University of New Haven's Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group. In this episode, Dr. Baggili discusses: The cybersecurity talent gap and how to address it; What it takes to build top-notch talent and identify programs that promote excellence; How he...

Although the news of the growing attack surface continues to heighten, there has not been a necessary change in how we protect and defend. This what Kindervag has set out to change. In this episode, John Kindervag, the creator of zero trust, discusses: How to practically implement zero trust; Shifting focus from worrying about the attack surface to securing the "protect surface"; The future threat...

Increasing compliance standards can be confusing and overwhelming but they also signal a recognition of the fact that one company's vulnerability affects us all in our interconnected digital world. In this episode, Mike Ferris and Mike Brooks of Abacode, a leading Managed Cybersecurity and Compliance Provider, discuss: The convergence of cybersecurity and compliance in the new category MCCP; How M...

Having worked for both the White House and Huawei, Pudry explains that fear of Huawei is misdirected. Bad actors simply aren't asking permission from suppliers when hacking into their products. Andy Purdy is the Chief Security Officer for Huawei Technologies USA and former member of the White House staff. In this episode Purdy discusses: Expectations and challenges for the new administration; Hold...

There's no doubt that our world has changed, but there's a sharp distinction between acquiescing to our new state as 'normal' and adapting to the threats of our new reality. In this episode, Morgan Wright, Chief Security Advisor at SentinelOne, discusses: The SolarWinds and Accellion breaches and attribution of the attacks; How to secure critical infrastructure and the failure of Congress to under...

It's no secret that there's a shortage of cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to wage the war in cyberspace. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Mika Devonshire, who works in digital forensics and incident response at S-RM discusses: Her career path moving from the liberal arts into cybersecurity; Attribution of the SolarWinds and other recent attacks; And her outlook on the...

Speed is the enemy of security and as 5G is widely adopted and internet speeds increase, the threat also increases. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Dr. Rebecca Wynn discusses: The future of work-from-home; The impact of 5G on cybersecurity; The difficulties of securing the healthcare sector; And artificial intelligence and deep fakes.

There's a cycle of intense action followed by complacency that comes with any major security incident including the recent SolarWinds breach. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Anup Ghosh, CEO of Fidelis Cybersecurity, discusses: How to take advantage of this pivotal moment; How deception technology allows you to shape the attack surface of your network; The impending impact on cyber from...

When a digital device becomes our lifeline to the rest of the community and the world, we need to make sure that these digital lifeboats are secure. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Christy Wyatt, CEO at Absolute, the leading company in endpoint resilience, discusses: How enterprises and educational institutions have adapted to the new normal; The importance of building security technol...

What happens when no one is watching the watchers, when the solution you're trusting for the security of your organization has security issues itself? In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Jeremy Rasmussen, CTO at Abacode, a Managed Cybersecurity and Compliance Provider (MCCP), discusses: Taking a holistic view of cybersecurity; The biggest gaps in cybersecurity education today; The best app...

Pride comes before a fall. That was certainly the case with SolarWinds, who were warned by Ian Thornton-Trump of their security shortcomings back in 2017. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Thornton-Trump, CISO at Cyjax and former security adviser to SolarWinds discusses: The history of SolarWinds and his warning to them; The current threat landscape and our biggest vulnerabilities today;...

We can't avoid it any longer, we're digital people living in a digital world. We have digital identities, make online purchases, work from remote offices and almost everything we do is conducted digitally. It's no wonder that the biggest challenges we face today are digital as well. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Chuck Brooks, respected cybersecurity thought leader, influencer and tec...

How is it that the adversary always seems to be advancing faster than we can possibly keep up and what is the best strategy in the unwinnable game of cybersecurity? In this episode with Gene Spafford, professor of computer science at Purdue University and executive director emeritus at the Purdue University Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, we discuss: Who an...