Joining us this week is Avi Bashan, CTO of Kovrr who shares his perspective on quantifying the elusive risk elements of business today. He shares great insights 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.

Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic, at Security Fanatics joins the podcast this week to share his perspective on the invader and 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.

Petko Stoyanov, Forcepoint's Global Chief Technology Officer joins Eric Trexler for a discussion on cyber implications of the developing war on Ukraine.

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 critical infrastructure and essential services.

This week we dive into the hot topic of cybersecurity 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 defining cyber war, the impact of the increase of ransomware the last two years (some stats put it at 150% increase!), and how to change security behaviors.

Forcepoint CEO Manny Rivelo joins the podcast this week to share his perspective on cybersecurity in 2022 and beyond. Did you know hacking is really a 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.

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 from many of the mobile and in-car maps we utilize today.

Welcome to the end of To the Point in 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. 

Dr. Richard Ford, Chief Technology Officer at Praetorian joins us on the podcast this week to share perspectives 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.