We’re excited to welcome back to the podcast Maria Roat, founder of MA Roat Consulting and former U.S. Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer. For this part 1 discussion, we double-click into the cyber workforce gap and how to attract diverse skillsets to the industry, introducing STEM earlier in education, understanding how to nurture non-traditional learners and the awesome experience veterans bring to supporting the cyber mission.

Joining the podcast for the part two discussion this week is Mishi Choudhary, SVP and General Counsel at Virtru. Mishi shares with us some legal perspective on the privacy discussion, including freedom of thought, the right to be forgotten, end-to-end encryption and protecting user data. She also discusses finding a middle ground between meeting customer privacy demands and complying with legal requirements, getting to a federal privacy regulation, and so much more!

Joining the podcast this week is Mishi Choudhary, SVP and General Counsel at Virtru. Mishi shares with us some legal perspectives on the privacy discussion, including freedom of thought, the right to be forgotten, and end-to-end encryption for protecting user data. Plus, finding a middle ground between meeting customer privacy demands and complying with legal requirements, getting to federal privacy regulation, and so much more! You won’t want to miss what is a truly spirited and candid conversation – in two parts!

Joining us this week is Jennifer Cook, Senior Director of Marketing at the National Cybersecurity Alliance and we discuss all the hot and trending online scams facing consumers today including the growing prevalence of romance scams ($1.3B in losses last year!), job seeker scams, tax fraud scams, sextortion, and the latest cyber scam making the rounds – pig butchering scams.

This week joining the podcast is Anton (Tony) Dahbura, executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of Assured Autonomy. We deep dive into the realm of AI Machine Learning technology and the exponential applications for it across every aspect of our lives.

Joining the podcast this week is Brian Hajost, the founder and COO of SteelCloud. Brian shares insights on his concept of a Compliance Bill of Materials (CBOMs). For those that have heard of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) it’s a similar concept.

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.

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.

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.

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?!)