Cyber Frontiers

This week on Cyber Frontiers Christian, Ashton, and Jim catch up with Dr. Jim Purtilo (guest from Episode 3) to discuss historical and trending topics in cyber legislation, as well as many of the central issues surrounding cyber education in industry and academia. We explore some of the driving factors behind changes in mentality on where cyber legislation should be developed (and/or curtailed) – and where the disconnects are in understanding the current state of affairs in cyber legislation, education, and privacy matters that impact the average guy Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the

This week Ashton and Christian kick off the new year by discussing plans to launch the first major cybersecurity research project on the development sandbox: mapping the internet with traceroute, distributed Nmap, and Hadoop. We discuss strategies and design challenges that will be present early on in development and potential solutions that may be employed. Furthermore, we tie back the project to the latest developments in the North Korea cyber fiasco with Sony Corporation. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the

This week on Cyber Frontiers Ashton, Christian, and Jim have the conversation everyone else has been – Sony! We talk about what the Sony breach means for the cybersecurity field, and how it compares and contrasts to breaches of the past. We have some great conversation around what constitutes “damage” in a cyber breach, how it impacts people short term and long term, and what technology and attitudes need to change to prevent the Sony incident from repeating itself elsewhere. Combined with Christian’s after-action poly-sci analysis, Ashton’s sentiment Analysis code, and Jim’s arsenal of questions for what this means for

This week Ashton and Christian continue their exploration of Big Data through tweets around the world using Twitter’s Streaming API. In particular, Christian walks through improvements to his starter kit, showing how to manipulate and filter tweets, as well as do the classic Word Count example using tweets and hashtags. Ashton walks us through how to use Storm to push streaming tweets directly to the data platform, allowing for large-scale analysis that can support millions of tweets in the dataset. Between the in-show code walkthroughs and our project starter kit out at https://cyberfrontierlabs.com – you should have everything you need

This week Ashton and Christian begin an exciting, multi-part series on how to leverage big data technologies to learn new skills in data analytics using one of the world’s cheapest and largest value data sources – tweets! We take a look at the Twitter Streaming API, techniques for collecting and storing these data sets, and basic visualization exercises in Java and HTML5. We also take a look at some automated Twitter interactions using Python scripting and basic rule sets. This is a great show to follow along with on our video feed if you typically are an audio-only listener. We’ll

This week we take an exciting deep dive into innovation in the cybersecurity industry by talking with Franz Payer, one of the industry’s rising start-up CEO’s of Cyber Skyline. Christian, Ashton, and Jim talk with Franz about his new cybersecurity competition and education platform, which takes a unique approach to teaching cybersecurity skills and hosting competitions for students and professionals alike. With several pilot competitions already hosted and major future events on the horizon, Franz’s platform shows a promising direction for bringing in more talent and awareness in cybersecurity. It’s one of our best interviews yet to date – and

This week we are joined by Jay Ellis, Senior Information Security Engineer and Program Manager at Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), to talk about space networks, healthcare IT, and the networks and cybersecurity methodologies that run them. Jim, Christian, and Ashton keep the questions rolling in what promises to be a packed hour of content based on Jay’s experiences in the field. Mr. Ellis is a seasoned information technology professional with over 25 years of professional experience in the analysis, design, development, project management, and security of information systems. He currently holds several industry-standard information technology certifications, and has a proven

This week the conversation is all around the cloud computing and how today’s modern architecture continues to evolve. Christian, Ashton, and Jim talk about the ways cloud computing is being adopted in the enterprise and discuss the security and scalability implications of government agencies trusting their data to a third party cloud infrastructure. While we are still cloudy on a few matters ourselves, this episode promises to be a noteworthy discussion on where the next generation of cloud computing is headed. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic

This week on Cyber Frontiers, Christian Johnson and Ashton Webster, joined by Jim Collison, talk about how to setup a multi-node distributed Hadoop cluster on a single box. The discussion on the technology quickly dives into newer technology in virtualization in SDN, and we even get a little bit of time to talk about the relevancy of the shellshock news to our big data research on the show. This should be a treat to newcomers in the big data space as well as veteran data geeks! Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping

This week on Cyber Frontiers Christian Johnson and Ashton Webster, hosted by Jim Collison, explain the importance of finding productive communities to learn and hone in your cybersecurity skills.  They also discuss the many available online and offline resources from which to gain additional insight about the current state of the art in digital security. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the University of Maryland will bring fresh and relevant topics to the show based on the current work he does.