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, cryptocurrency's future, and how he came up with Hypponen’s Law.

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.

This week co-hosts Eric and Rachael are coming to you live from Cabo San Lucas!

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 cyber 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 business innovation.

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. 

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.

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!

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 disruption of industries (for example, impacting wind turbines!).

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. He also discusses some of the longer-term considerations on Russian cyber companies impacted by sanctions.

This week we are joined by Dr. 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 conundrum, 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 always behind in cybersecurity?”