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.

This week we catch up with Dustin Moody, a Mathematician in the NIST Computer Security Division who shares insights on how he found his way to NIST and cryptography through a love of elliptic curves and their beauty in numbers and patterns.

Dive into the world of cryptocurrency with this week’s guest Jeff Roberts, Finance Editor at Fortune and author of the book “Kings of Crypto: One Start-Up’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and On To Wall Street.” For those who are wondering, Jeff shares that cryptocurrency today is definitely mainstream. And while it is still a speculative investment - with big banks getting into the game it may not stay that way for long. (HINT: in the next 10 years, we just may have an FDIC version for cryptocurrency!)