This week, Nicole Perlroth. award-winning journalist for The New York Times and best-selling author of “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends” joins the podcast to discuss her decade-long journey covering cybersecurity and many terrifying discoveries navigating through the underbelly of the secretive cyberweapons market. She shares insights on the importance of making cyber understanding and awareness accessible to all audiences.

For this week’s episode we catch up with LaLisha Hurt. She’s the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) and recognized Cyber Wonder Warrior. LaLisha shares insights on the origins of - and what it means to be - a Cyber Wonder Warrior today. She’s inspiring the next-generation of security leaders. She shares how focused on mission and purpose brought her to the public sector.

Enrique Oti, Chief Technology Officer for Second Front Systems joins us for a candid discussion. On the opportunities and challenges in innovating government software development, deployment and acquisition. He’s the founder of the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run program and co-founder of the Defense Innovation Unit in Silicon Valley.

Welcome to our first SPECIAL EPISODE where we cover breaking news as it happens. Today we catch up with Joe Uchill, Assistant policy researcher at RAND Corp & Graduate student at Pardee Rand Graduate School (formerly senior reporter at SC Media), to discuss the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, the ransomware gangs making headlines this week, and why we continue to see escalating attacks in frequency, ransom demands and high value targets such as critical infrastructure.