To The Point - Cybersecurity

Jill Aitoro, SVP for Content Strategy at CyberRisk Alliance joins the podcast this week for a hot topics discussion across recent developments in the ongoing cyber war involving Ukraine, Russia and a supporting cast of many public and private entities including NATO, Microsoft, Lithuania and others. We also dive into recent exploits by China with social media microtargeting campaigns against rare...

This week Gerald Caron, CIO for the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) joins the podcast to share real world impact in bringing communications and accessibility to an organization. He also breaks down a football analogy of IT as an enabler and the criticality of the fans (users) to the equation. And provides perspective on Zero Trust and IT modern...

This week Rachael and Eric discuss the recently published "Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War" report from Microsoft and the accompanying blog post by Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith. They share insights and raise lingering questions on the report's findings and the five conclusions Microsoft framed from the war's first four months. They also briefly share insights f...

Joining the podcast this week is John DiLullo, Chief Revenue Officer for Forcepoint and former CEO at LastLine Security, acquired by VMWare in 2020. He's spent decades in the security world. Speaking of world, as it has opened back up John has traveled the globe this year visiting every continent but Antarctica and shares insights from his many meetings with customers, partners, and security compa...

Joining the podcast this week is Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at WithSecure. He breaks down the rise and fall of cybercrime unicorns, the effectiveness of unicorn hunting season and bounties, the impact of nations fighting back in today's cyber war, Ukraine's preparedness for Russian cyber war, cryptocurrencies future and how he came up with Hypponen's Law. And be sure to keep an eye out...

Joining us this week is Jarod Koopman, Acting Executive Director of Cyber and Forensic Services for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – Criminal Investigation division. He takes us inside the exciting world of cyber crimes and digital forensics – truly the investigations carried out by this team would make for an endless franchise of action thriller films or book series. So what did we talk about...

This week co-hosts Eric and Rachael are coming to you live from Cabo San Lucas! They cover hot topics including CyberWire's new CISA Cybersecurity alerts, the impact of ransomware on a 157 year-old university in Illinois, Colonial Pipeline's nearly $1M proposed fine by the Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the recent surge in tractor hacking! R...

This week Rob Flanders, Head of Threat and Incident Response at BAE Systems, joins the podcast to share an international perspective on cybersecurity today. We delve into hot topics including supply chain security, security trends for 5-50 person organizations and impact on the large enterprises they work with, growing regulation around reporting requirements, and the impact of security on busines...

Joining the podcast this week is Bash Kazi, CEO of Cyber Range Solutions. He shares perspective on the importance of experiential and continuous training across red team, blue team and threat hunting and creating real world environments to learn based on existing and emerging threats. He also shares some stories from the field such as a voter hacking simulation won by a 15-year-old student as well...

This week we catch up with Dr. Siwei Lyu, a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor and founding Co-Director of Center for Information Integrity (CII) at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Siwei breaks down the deepfake experience, both the good and the misleading aspects of the technology. He shares insights on techniques researchers are developing to detect deepfakes, including GA...

Joining the podcast this week is Stacy Janes, Head of Cybersecurity at Waymo. Stacy shares an awesome story of how he found his way to security and the automotive industry – and we'll bet it isn't at all the journey you thought it would be! He also shares perspective on the difference between connected and autonomous vehicles, security by design and 360-degree situational awareness with autonomous...

This week on the podcast Bobby Chesney, James Baker Chair at the University of Texas School of Law, and co-founder of the awesome Lawfare.com blog and co-host of the National Security Law podcast, joins us for a discussion on all things cyber legal policy and regulations - and it is fun! We chat about the recent Viasat satellite hack that served dual-purposes for military application and disruptio...

Michael Daniel, President and CEO of Cyber Threat Alliance joins the podcast this week and dives right into the latest developing cyber implications resulting from the Ukraine conflict, as well as longer term considerations on Russian cyber companies impacted by sanctions. He also shares perspective on the differing views of cyber as a nuisance vs public/safety problem, the opportunity to combat c...

This week we are joined by Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar, CISAC and Hank J. Holland Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University – and author of the book Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons. Herb shares his deep expertise in cyber policy and security to shed light on key questions that should be on everyone's mind, such as "Why are innovation and cybersecurity opposites" and "Why are we alw...

This week's podcast guest Rich Itri, Chief Innovation Officer at ECI, did the heavy work of reading the SEC's 250-page proposal on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure and shares perspective on what may be ahead for public companies that are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. As it goes into comment period through M...

Matt Bianco, President at Fedway Consulting, joins the podcast this week to deep dive into the electric vehicle world, how it's evolving, challenges being address (such as charging stations!) and government plans to help advance electric vehicles within the government fleet and with consumers across the U.S. One of the big questions with electric vehicles are the cyber vulnerabilities as charging...

Joining us this week is Avi Bashan, CTO of Kovrr sharing perspective on quantifying the elusive risk elements of business today. Great insights he shares on new methodologies and tools security teams, Risk Officers and others can leverage today to start putting risk into an understandable and quantifiable business perspective. And no conversation on risk is complete without discussion on cyber ins...

Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic, at Security Fanatics joins the podcast this week to share perspective from his many interviews with Ukraine government members and others on-the-ground in Ukraine. He also shares insights on cyber attacks against Ukraine since 2014 and how the landscape continues to shift during the current conflict, including potential cyberattack leakage outside the region....

Joe Uchill, senior reporter at SC Magazine, joins us on the podcast this week to share perspective from his ongoing reporting on the cyber implications from the Ukraine conflict. We cover a bevy of themes including the level of cyber versus kinetic attacks, the "IT Army" of Ukraine and impact of decentralized hacking volunteers, Conti ransomware group woes and the globalism of the criminal economy...

Petko Stoyanov, Chief Technology Officer for Global Governments at Forcepoint Petko Stoyanov serves as Forcepoint's Chief Technology Officer for Global Governments. He focuses on strategy, technology and go-to-market for enterprise-focused solutions across the government verticals in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. Petko is an experienced cyber security leade...

Dr. Samantha Ravich, Chairman for the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins the podcast this week. She shares insights from her many years on the geopolitical and economic front lines of cyber, and work with many renowned government leaders, on developing a plan of action to address today's cyber threat landscape and looming threat against critica...

This week we dive into the hot topic of cyber insurance with Dr. Josephine Wolff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at Tufts University The Fletcher School and author of the book "You'll See This Message When it is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches" (MIT Press 2018). We explore the dynamic industry of cyber insurance and key policy areas such as definin...

Forcepoint CEO Manny Rivelo joins the podcast this week to share perspective on what's security in 2022 and beyond. Did you know hacking is really big business – money from attacks is equivalent to the world's third largest economy, behind the U.S. and China. As hackers are innovating faster businesses are struggling to keep up. He shares insights on how the industry can help organizations can get...

This week Noam Maital, CEO and Co-founder of Waycare Technologies, a subsidiary of Rekor, joins us to share insights on a topic we haven't yet covered on the podcast – shaping the future of city mobility. Imagine the significant amount of data aggregation and synthesis through AI critical in the management of our roadways, traffic flow and emergency response – that also helps power and draw data f...

Welcome to the end of 2021 episode where Eric and Rachael recap highlights from guests throughout the year hitting on the key topics that dominated the headlines including Log4Shell, Sunburst, Colonial Pipeline, ransomware growth trends, the Biden Executive Order of May 12th, Zero Trust, and the many award-winning books published such as by NY Times' Nicole Perlroth, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kan...