Chris Walcutt, the CSO at DirectDefense talks about the rapidly changing threat landscape that critical infrastructure owners and operators inhabit, and how savvy firms are managing OT cyber risks.

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Security researcher and IoT hacker Dennis Giese talks about his mission to liberate robot vacuums from the control of their manufacturers, letting owners tinker with their own devices and - importantly - control the data they collect about our most intimate surroundings.

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In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts speaks with Colin O'Flynn, CTO and founder of the firm NewAE about his work to patch shoddy software on his home's electric oven - and the bigger questions about owners rights to fix, tinker with or replace the software that powers their connected stuff.

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Paul talks with Chris Hoff the Chief Secure Technology Officer at LastPass about the CSTO role and the security implications of “software eating the world.”

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In our latest podcast, Paul caught up with Sick Codes (@sickcodes) to talk about his now-legendary presentation at the DEF CON Conference in Las Vegas, in which he demonstrated a hack that ran the Doom first person shooter on a John Deere 4240 touch-screen monitor.

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With Black Hat and DEFCON upon us, we revisit a 2015 interview with Chris Valasek about his wireless, software based hack of a Chrysler Jeep Cherokee.

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In this week’s episode of the podcast (#219) we speak with four cybersecurity professionals about what it means to be Queer in the industry: their various paths to the information security community, finding support among their peers and the work still left to do to make information security inclusive. All in honor of Pride Month, 2021.

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In this Spotlight edition of the podcast, sponsored* by RSA Security, we go deep on public sector cyber risk with two interviews from the most recent RSA Conference: Kelvin Coleman, the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and Sean McHenry, the CISO of the Utah State Board of Education. In our second segment, we shift focus to the Pacific. Robert Carey the Vice President of Global Public Sector Solutions at RSA Security joins us with the man known as "Dr. AA": Dr. Aswami Ariffin who is the head of response at Cybersecurity Malaysia.

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In this Spotlight Edition of the podcast we're speaking with RSA Chief Technology Officer Zulfikar Ramzan about how his company is adapting to help its customers confront the dark side of digital transformation initiatives: increased digital risk, including from cloud, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.

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In this interview, recorded at the RSA* Charge conference, RSA President Rohit Ghai talks about some of the ways that digital organizations have to adapt to- and address risks introduced by new transformative technologies like machine learning, multi cloud environments and robotics and other "digital transformation" initiatives.

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