This week, 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.

Joining us this week is Dr. David Bader, a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He deep dives into the opportunity to democratize data science tools and the awesome free tool he and Mike Merrill spent the last several years building that can be found on the Bears-R-Us GitHub page open to the public.

This week we’re joined by Julia Fallon, Executive Director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and she shines a light on the appeal of school systems to cyber attackers. (HINT: it is access to PII to open credit cards, mortgages, and more in the name of children that often is only detected many years later.)

In this special rerun episode, we feature our interview with Bill Evanina, the Founder and CEO of the Evanina Group and a former Director at the National Counterintelligence and Security Center Office of the Director of National Intelligence. As September marks Insider Threat Awareness Month, Bill Evanina will provide a comprehensive exploration of insider threats. He draws from his extensive experience in counterintelligence and security, offering insights into the definition of insider threats (including potential harm to oneself or others).

We pick back up with Joshua Corman, founder of grassroots organization I Am the Cavalry, for part two of our discussion. Josh shares insights from his many years on the healthcare cyber front lines. He provides both a captivating and sobering perspective on the state of healthcare security today.

We had so much to talk about with this week’s guest that we made it a two-part episode! Joining us this week, and next week, is Joshua Corman, Founder of grassroots organization I Am the Cavalry. Josh shares insights from his many years on the healthcare cyber front lines and provides both a captivating and sobering perspective on the state of healthcare security today.

We’re excited to welcome back to the podcast Sudhakar Ramakrishna, CEO at SolarWinds. When we first caught up with Sudhakar Ramakrishna it was several months into his tenure at the company managing through the Sunburst attack. We were so impressed with how he was helping navigate the company through this time we wanted to check in with him more than a year later for an update on how things are going.

This week on the podcast, we’re joined by Mark Montgomery, senior director of the FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and director of CSC 2.0.

After nearly 300 episodes we have had some of the most spectacular guests on the podcast! Every once in a while we like to bring back one of our favorite episodes from the archives because we really enjoyed the conversation and think our new listeners will as well. This week we chat on the complexities and opportunities smart cities can deliver in the US and around the globe with guest Chris Teale, reporter at Smart Cities Dive. He’s spent years meeting with government and community leaders on the growth of smart cities and shares thoughts on just how fluid defining what a smart city is today. 

This week we welcome to the podcast Chad McDonald, Chief of Staff and CISO at Radiant Logic. He talks about the very interesting and real reality of what is becoming known as the cyber poverty line and the security vulnerabilities that funding and resource inequities can create in a supply chain and elsewhere. He also shares insights for organizations to assess where they fall on the spectrum and resources available to identify and address security gaps relative to their business.