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?!)

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?”

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.

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.