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. Gerald also breaks down a football analogy of IT as an enabler and the criticality of the fans (users) to the equation.

This week Rachael and Eric discuss the world’s first cyber war and 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.

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 working on cyber happiness. John has traveled the globe this year after things opened up visiting every continent but Antarctica. He shares insights from his many meetings with customers, partners, and security companies around the world. 

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!