In this replay episode, Audra is joined by Megan Stifel, Chief Strategy Officer for the Institute for Security and Technology, to discuss how ransomware evolution has evolved from a business nuisance to a threat to national security.

Back from the archives! This week we're spotlighting one of our favorite episodes in 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, Audra is joined by Mark Montgomery, senior director of the FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0. 

In this rerun episode of Tech Transforms, we dive into the world of cybersecurity innovation with the Audra Simons. Audra shares her insights on how innovation is viewed and executed, emphasizing the importance of involving customers in the process. She provides examples of research projects and how they were brought to fruition, shedding light on the timelines and challenges involved in productizing new ideas.

Since the early beginnings of the internet in the 1980's, viruses and malware attacks have become far more aggressive. As a result, the evolution of cybersecurity has had to greatly (and quickly) keep up with new and emerging threats.

In this replay episode, we have Peter W. Singer. He’s a New York Times bestselling author of books including Ghost Fleet, LikeWar, and the techno-thriller Burn In. He shares details on the New America non-profit organization and its awesome #SharetheMicinCyber program helping to bring a diversity of thought to the cybersecurity front lines. 

In this replay episode, we're revisiting our interview with Tony Sager, Senior Vice President and Chief Evangelist for the Center of Internet Security. He shares insights from his 45+ years on the security risks front lines, including 34 years at the NSA. Risk was a big theme of the discussion, particularly looking at risk through a similar lens as we view other risky domains, such as the great work being done with the Cyber Safety Review Board. (And he shares color on the power of being okay with the risk of being wrong sometimes).

In this replay episode, we revisit our conversation with Jennifer Cook, Senior Director of Marketing at the National Cybersecurity Alliance. 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 scam making the rounds – pig butchering scams.

This week we’ll revisit the hot topic of cyber 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.

Dive back in for part two replay epdisode as we revisit our in-depth interview with Juan Andrés Guerrero Saade (aka JAGS). In this continuation, we revisit the captivating world of cyber espionage with JAGS, principal researcher at SentinelOne and Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Take another deep dive into his research on Moonlight Maze, one of the first widely known cyber espionage campaigns in history.