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Human vs. Super Suit: Exploring the AI-Human Relationship
For this week’s episode, Casey Ellis, Founder and CTO of Bugcrowd and Co-Founder of The disclose.io Project, joins us to explore the risks and rewards of exploring AI technology, including concerns around the ubiquitous ChatGPT chatbot.

Qubits and Pieces: Standardizing Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Face of Quantum Computing
This week, we welcome back Dustin Moody, a mathematician in the NIST Computer Security Division. He teaches us about the risks posed by quantum computers. He also shares updates on the status of NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standardization project. As quantum computers move from sci-fi to reality, Dustin elaborates on the functionality of quantum computing.

StateRAMP: The Easy Button for Security Innovation
Joining the podcast this week is Joe Bielawski, founding member of StateRAMP and President of Knowledge Services and StateRamp Executive Director Leah McGrath. If the name sounds somewhat familiar – like FedRAMP – it should because StateRAMP helps to meet the growing need in state and local government to manage third party risk and efficiently verify cloud security.

Time for the Cyber Walls to Come Down
This week we welcome back to the podcast former co-host Eric Trexler, Senior Vice President, U.S. Public Sector at Palo Alto Networks. We examine some hot security topics for the year ahead including growing prevalence of AI/ML automation used for preventative security, continued evolution, and impact of ransomware (Did you know the average dwell time is 28 days?!)

Danny Jenkins Replay—Today’s Ransomware Relationship Status: It’s Complicated
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 plus ideological threat of ransomware. And he poses the question, “Will we get to a point where we have to stop drinking tap water?”

Nicole Perlroth Replay—Someone Needs to Do Something, But Who? - Ep. 214
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” It previously ran as episode 138.

Cyber and Business are Becoming One with Ismael Valenzuela
This week Ismael Valenzuela, Vice President of Threat Research & Intelligence at BlackBerry join the podcast to share perspective from the security threat frontlines. We explore zero day vulnerabilities and information stealers, differing risk appetites across organizations of every size, the criticality of information sharing to mitigate emerging threats, and breaking down the security basics that are key to shoring up defenses.

Embracing the Security Mission with John Zangardi
This week John Zangardi, President and CEO of Redhorse Corporation joins us on the podcast to talk about his remarkable career starting with his time in the Navy as a Naval Flight Officer, his many years on the frontlines of security mission - including his favorite professional role in government as Department of Homeland Security CIO – and shares perspective on bridging the security talent gap in government as well as the many talents veterans bring to the security industry.

We Are the Hacker's Day Job with Adam Levin, Part 2
This week we welcome Adam K. Levin back to the podcast to talk about the hacker’s day job. He is a long-time consumer affairs advocate with more than 40 years of experience. He’s the author of the book Swiped and formerly Chairman and founder of CyberScout as well as co-founder of Credit.com. He joins us at the apex of the consumer security awareness time of year. Holiday shopping, COVID, flu, and other health concerns run rampant in addition to geopolitical security concerns that are ever present.

We Are the Hacker's Day Job with Adam Levin, Part 1
This week we welcome Adam Levin to the podcast to talk about the hacker’s day job. He is a long-time consumer affairs advocate with more than 40 years of experience. He’s the author of the book Swiped, and formerly Chairman and founder of CyberScout as well as co-founder of Credit.com. He joins us at the apex of the consumer security awareness time of year. Holiday shopping, COVID, flu, and other health concerns run rampant in addition to geopolitical security concerns that are ever-present.
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