This week we are joined by Dr. Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar, CISAC and Hank J. Holland Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University – and author of the book Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons. Herb shares his deep expertise in cyber conundrum, policy, and security to shed light on key questions that should be on everyone’s mind, such as “Why are innovation and cybersecurity opposites” and “Why are we always behind in cybersecurity?”

This week’s podcast guest Rich Itri, Chief Innovation Officer at ECI, did the heavy work of reading the SEC’s 250-page cyber proposal on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure. He shares his perspective on what may be ahead for public companies that are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Matt Bianco, President at FedWay Consulting, joins the podcast this week to deep dive into the electric vehicle world, how it’s evolving, challenges being address (such as charging stations!) and government plans to help advance electric vehicles within the government fleet and with consumers across the U.S.

Joining us this week is Avi Bashan, CTO of Kovrr who shares his perspective on quantifying the elusive risk elements of business today. He shares great insights on new methodologies and tools security teams, Risk Officers and others can leverage today to start putting risk into an understandable and quantifiable business perspective.

Nick Espinosa, Chief Security Fanatic, at Security Fanatics joins the podcast this week to share his perspective on the invader and from his many interviews with Ukraine government members and others on the ground in Ukraine. He also shares insights on cyber attacks against Ukraine since 2014 and how the landscape continues to shift during the current conflict, including potential cyberattack leakage outside the region.

Joe Uchill, senior reporter at SC Magazine, joins us on the podcast this week to share perspective from his ongoing reporting on the cyber implications from the Ukraine conflict.

Petko Stoyanov, Forcepoint's Global Chief Technology Officer joins Eric Trexler for a discussion on cyber implications of the developing war on Ukraine.

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.