To The Point - Cybersecurity

Back from the archives! This week we're spotlighting one of our favorite episodes in Summer 2021 with The New York Times journalist Nicole Perlroth where she shares insights from her decade long research for her book "This is How They Tell Me the World Ends". (FORMERLY EPISODE 138) This week Nicole Perlroth, award-winning journalist for The New York Times and best-selling author of "This Is How Th...

Dr. Richard Ford, Chief Technology Officer at Praetorian joins us on the podcast this week to share perspective on Log4Shell that's been making the headlines in recent weeks. He explains why this is the worst zero-day vulnerability the industry has seen in the last ten years, what makes it special and how Log4j's ubiquity in the java world will keep it around for a long time to come. He shares ins...

Joining us from the fantastic vista of Monaco is Mark Arena, CEO at Intel 471 – and he has a great story to tell about the origins of the company name! He also breaks down the ransomware threat over the last couple decades and how they have evolved with the availability of new, faster, better technology as well as a business acumen in creating affiliate programs and Ransomware-as-a-Service. And he...

This week Chris Krebs, founding partner of Krebs Stamos Group and the first Director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joins the podcast this week. He shares insights on ransomware trend lines, policy discussions, and streamlining the government engagement process for the private sector. He also shares perspective on risk (HINT: you ca...

This week Dragos CEO and co-founder Rob Lee joins the podcast and breaks down the OT challenge that many businesses are facing today including a lack of clarity on who within the business owns OT and defining what acceptable OT risk means within the business. He also shares perspective on multi-factor authentication as one of the universal controls, the industry + geopolitical aspect of managing r...

This week we catch up with Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of the think tank Silverado Policy Accelerator (SPA) and co-founder of Crowdstrike. He shares details on the newly launched Alperovitch Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies offering MA-PhD programs that intertwine cybersecurity and statecraft giving students the opportunity to study adversaries' unique mot...

Curt Dukes, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Security Best Practices at the Center for Internet Security (CIS) joins the podcast this week. He shares insights from his more than 30 years with the NSA and how that journey led to the CIS and the synergies between the two organizations in providing cyber resources and fostering threat intelligence information sharing. And for those no...

Dr. Andrew Hammond, Historian and Curator of the International Spy Museum joins us this week - and let's be honest he has just about the coolest job out there today! Hammond takes us through the classic period of espionage and the reliance on physical data and spycraft techniques to transport through to the modern day battlefield of cyber intelligence and espionage. And he provides insights on the...

Mike Watson, CISO for the Commonwealth of Virginia, joins the podcast this week and shares perspective on the challenges and opportunities for security teams at the state and local level. He recounts a 2009 ransomware incident and details just how sophisticated ransomware attackers have become in the ensuing years since. And he provides perspective on shared responsibility, security standards and...

This week we catch up with Matthew Ferraro an attorney at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and former intelligence officer. He has written extensively on national security and legal issues and most recently authored the CNN opinion piece "Ransomware attacks are about to get worse. But there are ways to stop them". He shares with us perspective on the role of governa...

This week our special guest is Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds. He shares insights from his first year at the company, joining at a very dynamic time as news of the Sunburst attack first started making headlines. He provides perspective on what we consider a master class in leading through crisis – putting employees and customers first, the importance of t...

This week we welcome guest Combiz Abdolrahimi, a national security lawyer and Emerging Technology and Innovation Leader at Deloitte. We deep dive into today's critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and navigating the path forward to address the threat with systems that weren't originally designed with cybersecurity in mind. (Hint: don't approach 21st century cyber challenges with 20th century thi...

Joining us this week is Danny Jenkins, CEO and Co-founder of ThreatLocker, an Orlando-based cybersecurity firm providing zero-trust endpoint security. Danny shares insights on the challenges facing critical infrastructure, particularly water systems that continue to be targeted with today's latest headline grabbing financial + idealogical threat of ransomware. And he poses the question, "Will we g...

Want to know what this week's episode title means? Listen to our two-part episode with Juan Andrés Guerrero Saade (aka JAGS), principal researcher at SentinelOne and Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). JAGS takes us on an exciting and educational ride through his research efforts on Moonlight Maze, one of the first widely known c...

Want to know what this week's episode title means? Listen to our two-part episode with Juan Andrés Guerrero Saade (aka JAGS), principal researcher at SentinelOne and Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). JAGS takes us on an exciting and educational ride through his research efforts on Moonlight Maze, one of the first widely known c...

Joe Marks, reporter for The Washington Post's daily newsletter Cybersecurity 202 covering the policy and politics of cybersecurity joins us this week. He takes us behind the scenes of his many years covering cybersecurity and policy sharing insights behind the stories, the reporting process and journalism in the age of dis/misinformation. He also shares perspective on key moves made by CISA in bri...

Sheera Frenkel covers cybersecurity from San Francisco for the New York Times. Previously, she spent over a decade in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent. Sheera previously worked for the Times of London, McClatchy and NPR, where her fluency in Hebrew and her conversational Arabic helped land stories. She has said that her time as a foreign correspondent aids her coverage of cybersecurity:...

This week we catch up with Dustin Moody, a Mathematician in the NIST Computer Security Division who shares insights on how he found his way to NIST and cryptography through a love of elliptic curves and their beauty in numbers and patterns. Learn more about the impending quantum revolution and what that means for encryption and what (as well as how long) it takes to develop a post-quantum cryptogr...

Dive into the world of cryptocurrency with this week's guest Jeff Roberts, executive editor at Decrypt and author of the book "Kings of Crypto: One Start-Up's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and On To Wall Street". For those that are wondering, Jeff shares that cryptocurrency today is definitely mainstream and while it is still a speculative investment - with big banks getting i...

This week we chat on the complexities and opportunities smart cities can deliver in the US and around the globe with guest Chris Teale, reporter at Smart Cities Dive. He's spent years meeting with government and community leaders on the growth of smart cities and shares thoughts on just how fluid defining what a smart city is today. Learn which cities around the world are leading in the smart city...

This week we are joined by World Econopmic Forum's Head of Governance and Trust Daniel Dobrygowski and Forcepoint Chief Legal Officer John Holmes for a discussion on the changing role of leadership when cyber is the cost of doing business. They share insights from the recently published World Economic Forum report "Principles for Board Governance of Cyber Risk" and historical points in time that t...

Buckle up for this week's episode because it is quite a ride! Greg Crabb, founder of TenEight Cyber and former CISO for the United States Postal Service shares insights from his more than 25 years in law enforcement and bringing cyber criminals to justice. And hear perspective on CISO best practices for a 630k+ employee organization with 43k facilities and 160 million daily delivery points and how...

This week we have our first guest that successfully swam the English Channel – Sue Daley, Director of Technology and Innovation at techUK. Hear insights from Sue on the mental focus it takes to swim for 23 hours straight, how a singular national vision has helped the UK address the cyber challenge, the opportunity for US and UK collaboration on cyber issues, and key considerations for regulating A...

This week we pick back up for part two with CERT Division Director Greg Touhill. He shares insights on the mindset change in recent years on the importance in understanding risk and high value assets and where they reside. He also provides perspective for defining resilience, including taking a punch and keep on going, as well as steps for getting ahead of today's ransomware threat run amok by buy...

This week Greg Touhill, Director of CERT Division, joins the podcast to share insights on CERT's history as the birthplace of cyber and culture of innovation at the center of the cyber universe. He also dives into the importance of the development of a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), what happens when national leaders shine a light on cyber, why talent with breadth and depth is critical helping...