How 'Just Plain Old Ransomware' Took Down Colonial Pipeline

Confronting the Reality of the SolarWinds Attack: There's no doubt that the SolarWinds attack has wracked the cybersecurity community. In this episode with Roger Sels, Vice President Solutions, EMEA at BlackBerry, we discuss what really happened, the tricky question of attribution, lessons learned,... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Colonial Pipeline and Ransomware: The Kalashnikov of 2021: Tom Kellermann is the head of cybersecurity strategy for VMware. Prior to this role, Kellermann was the chief cybersecurity officer for Carbon Black. Tom serves as the Wilson Center’s Global Fellow for Cybersecurity Policy and sits on the Technology... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Recognizing and Adapting to the New Reality: There's no doubt that our world has changed, but there's a sharp distinction between acquiescing to our new state as 'normal' and adapting to the threats of our new reality. In this episode, Morgan Wright, Chief Security Advisor at SentinelOne,... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Moving at the Speed of the Future: Deep fakes, 5G, AI-powered cyberattacks, technology is advancing at warp speed and security is struggling to keep up. In this episode with Sahir Hadayatullah, co-founder and CEO of Smokescreen Technologies, a market-leading deception technologies... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Presidential Transition and the National Threat of Cyber: The most inexpensive, highly destructive and highly deniable weapon known today is a cyberattack. In this episode with Gregory Touhill, current president of AppGate and formerly the federal government's first CISO, we discuss cybersecurity from a... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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A Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity and Compliance: Increasing compliance standards can be confusing and overwhelming but they also signal a recognition of the fact that one company's vulnerability affects us all in our interconnected digital world. In this episode, Mike Ferris and Mike Brooks of... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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The National Security Threat of Narcissism: Elisabeth Braw, is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine. She also frequently writes op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Politico. In this episode of Cybersecurity... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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From the Information Age to the Age of Misinformation: We've quickly gone from the Information Age to the Age of Misinformation and all of us are struggling to keep pace with the speed of the digital world. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Gabriel Friedlander, founder of Wizer, an educational... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Who's Watching the Watchers?: What happens when no one is watching the watchers, when the solution you're trusting for the security of your organization has security issues itself? In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Jeremy Rasmussen, CTO at Abacode, a Managed... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Building Top-Notch Talent in Cybersecurity: Ibrahim "Abe" Baggili is an internationally recognized expert in cybersecurity and digital forensics. He is the founder and co-director of the University of New Haven’s Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group. In this episode, Dr. Baggili... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Chasing the Unattainable Aim of Security: How is it that the adversary always seems to be advancing faster than we can possibly keep up and what is the best strategy in the unwinnable game of cybersecurity? In this episode with Gene Spafford, professor of computer science at Purdue University... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Cybersecurity Impacts on the Global Economy: Kadee Russ specializes in open-economy macroeconomics and international trade policy. She is a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, serving as a faculty... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Stepping into a Digital-First Economy: We can't avoid it any longer, we're digital people living in a digital world. We have digital identities, make online purchases, work from remote offices and almost everything we do is conducted digitally. It's no wonder that the biggest challenges we... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Teaching to Create, Not Consume Technology: Heather Monthie, PhD is an accomplished cybersecurity professional, leader, author, podcaster and mentor. She has nearly 25 years experience in cybersecurity, computer science, IT, aviation and STEM education. She has served as a vice president, dean... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Attacks Accelerating Faster than 5G: Speed is the enemy of security and as 5G is widely adopted and internet speeds increase, the threat also increases. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Dr. Rebecca Wynn discusses: The future of work-from-home; The impact of 5G on... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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The Venture Capitalist's View of Cybersecurity: Roger Lang is the general partner of the venture capital fund known as BCP Blitz. Rogers is also the CEO and founder of Predicta.com, the leader in advanced AI market analytics and data science. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Lang... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Creating Pathways for Women in Tech: Sheryl Root is Program Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley MSc in Technology Ventures program and Sandy Carter is Vice President, Public Sector Partners and Programs at AWS. As two successful women in tech, Sandy and Sheryl... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Personal Identity Wallet Back in Pocket: Richard Bird is the chief customer information officer for Ping Identity. Bird is a well-known, identity-centric security expert, a former CISO and CIO. In addition, Richard serves as the global head of identity for JPMorgan Chase's consumer... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Satisfying the Shortage in Cyber Warriors: Rob Clyde is a senior board director of ISACA, the chairman of the board for White Cloud Security and an advisor to ShardSecure. Rob has a long history in cybersecurity education and training. ISACA's recent 2021 State of Cybersecurity Study reported... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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The New Normal: Complexity and Resilience: When a digital device becomes our lifeline to the rest of the community and the world, we need to make sure that these digital lifeboats are secure. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Christy Wyatt, CEO at Absolute, the leading company in... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Solving Digital Identity: Jeremy Grant is the managing director of technology business strategy for Venable. Grant has been a major contributor to improving the privacy and security of sensitive online transactions as a senior executive advisor to the National Strategy for... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Implementing Security at a National Level: Having worked for both the White House and Huawei, Pudry explains that fear of Huawei is misdirected. Bad actors simply aren't asking permission from suppliers when hacking into their products. Andy Purdy is the Chief Security Officer for Huawei... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Challenges of Cybersecurity Events Marketing: David Elichman is the vice president of global events at Information Security Media Group (ISMG), where he leads a global team that manages to create and curate events that attract thousands of cybersecurity professionals around the world In this... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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How 'Just Plain Old Ransomware' Took Down Colonial Pipeline: Richard Stiennon is the chief research analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 2,600+ vendors in the IT security industry. He has held leadership positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Webroot and Fortinet. Previously, he was a... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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How Zero Trust Is Inverting the Way We Do Cybersecurity: Although the news of the growing attack surface continues to heighten, there has not been a necessary change in how we protect and defend. This what Kindervag has set out to change. In this episode, John Kindervag, the creator of zero trust,... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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A Pivotal Moment for Cybersecurity: There's a cycle of intense action followed by complacency that comes with any major security incident including the recent SolarWinds breach. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Anup Ghosh, CEO of Fidelis Cybersecurity, discusses: How to take... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Embracing Public-Private Partnership in Cybersecurity: Don Cox is the distinguished CISO at American Public Education, Inc. and former CISO at MEDNAX, a multi-billion dollar healthcare network with 8,000 employees. Cox also spent the majority of his prior career working for federal agencies in... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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Cyber Insurance Questions? We've Got You Covered: Lynn Peachey is an expert in cyber insurance, currently serving as the Director of Business Development at Arete Incident Response, a company in the cybersecurity insurance space. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Peachey discusses: What... by Cybersecurity Unplugged

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