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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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 + ideological threat of ransomware. And he poses the question, “Will we get to a point where we have to stop drinking tap water?”

Want to know what this week’s episode title means? Listen to our two-part episode with Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade (aka JAGS). He’s the 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 cyberespionage campaigns in world history.

Want to know what this week’s episode title means? Listen to our two-part episode with Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade (aka JAGS). He’s the principal researcher at SentinelOne and Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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 cyber reporting process and journalism in the age of dis/misinformation.

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.