This week Leonard Bailey, Head of Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section’s (CCIPS) Cybersecurity Unit for the Department of Justice (DOJ), Criminal Division, joins us this week. We dive into the role of the DOJ in addressing the vast and ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity. Bailey shares insights on partnering with federal agencies as well as the private sector, navigating information-sharing pathways, the evolution of incident and cyber threat reporting procedures, and the recent release of the Harmonization of Cyber Incident Reporting to the Federal Government. He also helps debunk information-sharing myths and spotlights available tools and benefits of cyber threat information disclosure.

In this week’s replay episode, we have Stacy Janes, Head of Cybersecurity at Waymo. Stacy shares an awesome story of how he found his way to security and the automotive industry – and we’ll bet it isn’t at all the journey you thought it would be!

In this week's replay episode, we have Combiz Abdolrahimi, a national security lawyer and Emerging Technology and Innovation Leader at Deloitte. We deep dive into today’s critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and navigating the path forward to address the threat with systems that weren’t originally designed with cybersecurity in mind.

This week we welcome to the podcast Lauren Maffeo, Senior Service Designer at Steampunk and Author of "Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up." We double click into data governance – particularly in the age of AI – why it matters, the risks of not having a governance framework, the opportunity AI governance can deliver organizations, as well as best practices when developing AI governance.

We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Dr. David Travers, Director of the Water Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience Division at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). During our discussion he addresses key themes including, why are water infrastructure systems targeted by ransomware; how cyberattacks on water systems impact the surrounding community; and the role of cyber hygiene in protecting water systems.

We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Lauren Zabierek, Senior Policy Advisor to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). She deep dives into CISA’s Secure by Design principles and approaches for secure by design software launched in April 2023 - with version two published on October 17, 2023.

This week we are joined by Kenneth Bible, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). He breaks down the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP) introduced in July and provides great insights into how the plan was developed. The five key pillars of the plan, actioning each of the five elements, and the role government agencies have to play in executing against the plan and its 65 initiatives.

Back from the archives: This week, we're replaying a popular episode with Dr. Siwei Lyu, a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor and founding Co-Director of Center for Information Integrity (CII) at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Siwei breaks down the deepfake experience, both the good and the misleading aspects of the technology.

This week we deep dive into privacy with Mozilla Foundation’s Privacy Not Included content creator Zoë MacDonald. She shares fascinating insights from the deep research the *Privacy Not Included team undertakes to assess just how private is your data when using popular apps, driving in your connected car, etc. It was quite eye-opening just how little privacy there is for connected car owners – giving up all kinds of privacy in the name of modern convenience

We’re excited to welcome back to the podcast global security expert, speaker and author Mikko Hypponen who currently serves as Chief Research Officer at WithSecure. We dive into his book “If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable” and how cybersecurity has evolved and changed in the last year since it was published.