Dr. Samantha Ravich, Chairman for the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at Foundation for Defense of Democracies joins the podcast this week. She shares insights from her many years on the geopolitical and economic front lines of cyber, and work with many renowned government leaders, on developing a plan of action to address today’s cyber threat landscape and looming threat against critical infrastructure and essential services.

This week we dive into the hot topic of cybersecurity insurance with Dr. Josephine Wolff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at Tufts University The Fletcher School and author of the book “You’ll See This Message When it is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches” (MIT Press 2018). We explore the dynamic industry of cyber insurance and key policy areas such as defining cyber war, the impact of the increase of ransomware the last two years (some stats put it at 150% increase!), and how to change security behaviors.

Forcepoint CEO Manny Rivelo joins the podcast this week to share his perspective on cybersecurity in 2022 and beyond. Did you know hacking is really a big business? Money from attacks is equivalent to the world’s third-largest economy, behind the U.S. and China. As hackers are innovating faster, businesses are struggling to keep up.

This week Noam Maital, CEO and Co-founder of Waycare Technologies, a subsidiary of Rekor, joins us to share insights on a topic we haven’t yet covered on the podcast – shaping the future of city mobility. Imagine the significant amount of data aggregation and synthesis through AI critical in the management of our roadways, traffic flow and emergency response – that also helps power and draw data from many of the mobile and in-car maps we utilize today.

Welcome to the end of To the Point in 2021 episode where Eric and Rachael recap highlights from guests throughout the year hitting on the key topics that dominated the headlines including Log4Shell, Sunburst, Colonial Pipeline, ransomware growth trends, the Biden Executive Order of May 12th, Zero Trust. 

Dr. Richard Ford, Chief Technology Officer at Praetorian joins us on the podcast this week to share perspectives on Log4Shell that's been making the headlines in recent weeks. He explains why this is the worst zero-day vulnerability the industry has seen in the last ten years, what makes it special and how Log4j's ubiquity in the java world will keep it around for a long time to come.

Joining us from the fantastic vista of Monaco is Mark Arena. He’s the CEO at Intel 471 – and he has a great story to tell about the origins of the company name, Boots On the Ground! He also breaks down the ransomware threat over the last couple of decades and how they have evolved with the availability of new, faster, better technology as well as a business acumen in creating affiliate programs and Ransomware-as-a-Service.

This week Chris Krebs, founding partner of Krebs Stamos Group and the first Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joins the podcast this week. He shares insights on ransomware trend lines, policy discussions, and streamlining the government engagement process for the private sector.

This week Dragos CEO and co-founder Rob Lee joins the podcast and breaks down the Operational Technology (OT) challenge that many businesses are facing today including a lack of clarity on who within the business owns OT and defining what acceptable OT risk means within the business.

Dmitri Alperovitch is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a non-profit focused on advancing solutions to critical geopolitical and cybersecurity policy challenges. He is a Co-Founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike Inc. A renowned cybersecurity visionary and business executive, Alperovitch is a thought-leader on cybersecurity strategy and state tradecraft and has served as special advisor to the US Department of Defense.