New Cyber Frontier

In this episode, Dr. Shawn Murray interviews Katie Adams, a Senior Director for Safal Partners, on a U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) national industry intermediary contract to expand apprenticeship in cybersecurity and the tech industry. Katie is a USDOL-recognized subject matter expert (SME) in apprenticeship and workforce development. Previously, Katie provided workforce and marketing SME and t...

We continue our IEEE Blockchain series with a Healthcare and AI episode. Today's Guest, Tavpritesh Sethi, is an expert researcher in Computational Biology and Data for Predicting Critical Health Conditions. As the pandemic showed us, wide ranges of data from across the population are valuable to predicting and reducing impact in pandemics, but how do we balance that with the patients' privacy righ...

Our host, Shawn Murray, talks with today’s guest, Eric Kant, about command and control systems within the emergency services industry and the use of what he calls “no code, low code.” Kant describes “no code, low code” to be the ability to build computer functions and programs without going into programming directly by using a drag and drop environment. The ability to give each client their own pe...

Our host, Christopher Gorog, talks with today's guest, Taylor Merry, about the cybersecurity involved with transport logistics. Taylor discusses the process of tackling the problem of information unavailability and tracking of goods as they go onto each leg of their journey. As transport logistics is an industry that still heavily relies on physical paper in a virtual age, it is vital to ensure th...

Tom Alrich is a consultant in Cybersecurity for the Electric Power Industry. Today’s show talks about the possible worst-case cyber attack on the electric grid. Tom talks about imaginary vs. real threats and what these mean to the industry. In addition, our guest spends some time explaining what the presidential orders on the electric grid mean for cybersecurity practitioners. Listen today to find...

Today, our guest David Kruger has a self-proclaimed contrarian view of cybersecurity and how to accomplish cybersecurity overall. He says that he likes to look at the underbelly of the problem and the mathematics behind cybersecurity issues in ways many tend not to look. David’s passion lies in designing cybersecurity, and his perspective tends toward how the cyber world could be different from wh...

Welcome back to another edition of the New Cyber Frontier. Our host, Dr. Shawn Murray, interviews Blake Marvin, the owner and founder of Avajen, LLC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Listen as they discuss Blake’s background in technology and what he has learned along the way in providing advice and quality service in the tech industry as a technician, later as a CTO for a startup, and now as...

This week, host Chris Gorog interviews Gora Datta, the founding member of HL7 mobile health. This conversation is packed full of interesting perspectives from IEEE healthcare and the world of emerging technologies. The exciting matter of emerging technologies is not to take lightly – from A.I. or simpler machine learning algorithm designs to blockchain and quantum computing. However, there is an e...

Our Guest Bill Alderson has taken an independent look a the SolarWinds breach and provides a detailed look into the attack sequence. Bills paper called "SolarWinds Breach – December 2020 a Comprehensive Paper" walks us through the series of events surrounding the highly publicized breach. This very colorful conversation is an excellent high-level look at the most important things you will need to...

In this episode of New Cyber Frontier, our host Tim Montgomery talks with today's guest, Amichi Shulman, about man the middle attacks and how companies can keep their employees secure. Everyday systems are at more risk than many think. From bot-nets to phishing, we are in a world of ever-increasing connectivity, and with that comes a more considerable risk for malicious activity. Amichi Shulman ha...

Join us for another episode of the New Cyber Frontier with Dr. Shawn Murray. He interviews his friend and special guest Pamela Fusco, the new Chief Information Security Officer at Splunk and the Chief Financial Officer at the Information Systems Security Association! Dr. Murray and Ms. Fusco will discuss her background from the time she spent as a cryptologist in the U.S. Navy, her history as a co...

Our guest talks about micro-segmentation, the implementation of firewall protection divided into tiny segments of your network; this is done by minimizing your firewall rulesets to one or a minimal set of computers. He describes why he is excited about security working for large banking institutions. Micro-segmentation supports zero-trust security models, which is also a subject on today's show. T...

Our host, Tim Montgomery, had the opportunity to speak with a guest, an Assistant Chair at the Leads School of Business at the University of Colorado. Our show looks at Blockchain Technologies from the business point of view. Dr. Lacek has spent a lot of time and written his Dissertation on the “Definition of Blockchain.” This very relevant and timely topic is something that many people wonder abo...

Today's guest has a unique team-building method by finding out whether the team member's personality meets the organization's needs. He explains that the people will always be the challenge, as you can continually update technology and processes, but people are the determining factor. The discussion is on how finding the "We" and "Us" type team member makes a better performing team than the "I" an...

This next episode of IEEE Blockchain for Transactive Energy defines and explains the participatory grid. Our guest, Dr. Farrokh Rahimi, Executive Vice President with Open Access Technology International, goes through an exciting insider history for energy trading. Will we ever get to the point where each person trades energy for themselves? It could be the case, as we open up for transactive power...

Today's show is about overexposure on the internet; as companies provide more business, those services offered make them easier to find and exploit. As a result, malicious agents can scrape the internet and companies' networks to learn more about them than they would often like to be known. Combatting overexposure is a massive undertaking, and companies always find higher priorities; thus, the pic...

Today we hear from Doug Britton at Haystack , who has come up with a great approach that tells us whether a candidate will be successful in a cybersecurity career. The CATA (Cyber Aptitude and Talent Assessment) relates to cognitive skills in various cybersecurity practices and jobs. This is excellent for job seekers and hiring managers alike. Doug brings student Maria Marquez , who explains her e...

Today’s show is about the secure development of software, known as DevSecOpps, as our guest calls it. We look at how to secure software from the perspective of someone trying to break it. Our Guest Ted Harrington has a background as a “Hacker” but has now turned from the dark side of the force to use his skills to help develop secure software. Ted has published a book called “Hackable.” After havi...

Today, we have an exciting episode, the second part of our "Year in Review," where we look forward to what to expect in 2022. We bring back our panel from the first show, representing our user listener engagement selected panel. All four of our hosts join to discuss with our forum and provide some insights of their own. You may be surprised to hear the common themes our guest brings up for 2022, b...

Today's special "Year in Review" episode brings back our guests from the top-performing shows of 2021 in a roundtable format. This is the first of two parts to this series, where we recap the highlights of what was the most impactful for the year 2021. All four of our hosts join to discuss with our panel and provide some insights of their own. The overwhelming theme that has emerged is the transit...

In this segment of the NCF, Dr. Murray discusses with Bob Zinga. The latter is the Director of Information Security at Directly and an Information Warfare Officer for the United States Navy Reserve in San Francisco. Bob and Shawn discuss the similarities and differences related to the security culture between both roles. In addition, Bob explains how a security leader needs to communicate to multi...

Today's podcast, our Control Systems Cybersecurity Expert, Joseph M. Weiss, an international authority on cybersecurity, control systems, and system security, will be talking about Control system cyber security is about keeping lights on, water flowing, etc. It is more than a matter of preserving network accessibility. We get in-depth about how a cyber incident impacts control systems, critical in...

Today’s Guest, a key founder of Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu, is a cyber security researcher with a highly technical background in network forensic analysis. They set the stage with an exciting discussion on tracking cyber threats and risks unique to the exposure created by the pandemic. Answering questions like, what did we learn, and what is new in the post-pandemic environment? What things cha...

Personality is a large part of a successful cyber workforce. Today, we look at some questions that people often ask: How do you determine what you will be good at in cybersecurity? Which training should I take? Will I enjoy the workload in my chosen career? An ex-marine corp officer, Jason Shockey, has made a career determining personalities and how they fit with a job. Our discussion covers where...

In this segment of the NCF, Dr. Murray has a conversation with Chloe Messdhagi, the VP of Strategy at Point 3 Security, Cofounder of Women of Security (WOS), Cofounder of Hacking is not a crime and Founder of "We are Hackers." Chloe describes the unique niche market of vetting IT and cyber security professionals' skill sets with their talent screening and gamification platform. Before managers and...