Nicolas M. Chaillan is the first chief software officer for the United States Air Force and Space Force and a former special adviser for cloud security and DevSecOps at the Department of Defense within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Chaillan was also the former special advisor for cybersecurity and chief architect for cyber.gov at the Department of Homeland Security. 

Mark Cristiano, the commercial director of global business services for Rockwell Automation, has spent the last 30 years in IT and enterprise and manufacturing systems leadership, about 19 of which were spent with Rockwell Automation.

When Seemplicity was established, Sirkis and his team went through a comprehensive ideation process: speaking with more than 70 CISOs in the U.S., Europe and in Isreal. It was clear that the security team felt that they had enough tools to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities across the organization. To this, Sirkis weighs in on how Seemplicity is creating a new category in the market.

David Monnier, chief evangelist at Team Cymru provides extensive threat landscape visibility beyond the perimeter to help threat hunters and analysts improve their abilities to identify cyberattacks in advance in today's world of threat intelligence.

From a marketing point of view, events are about brand awareness and demand generation, pipeline acceleration, media relations and more, but COVID-19 had different plans for marketers. Netzer weighs in on how difficult it's gotten to rise above the noise after transitioning to digital. 

Victoria Beckman is the director of the Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) for the Americas at Microsoft. DCU is responsible for implementing strategies to disrupt cybercrime. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Beckman discusses the downstream implications of countries dispersing and distributing operations and data assets, how Microsoft and the DCU unit are dealing with cyberattacks, and how preparation is key, on and off the battlefield.

Moshe Zioni, VP of security research at Apiiro has been researching security for over 20 years in multiple industries. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Zioni discusses the downstream dependencies on other open source programs that are called by API, how organizations can best mitigate future ransomware attacks, specifically around supply chain and open source, and the difference between private and public repositories, giving the eight-times the number of exposed secrets in private repositories.

Jonatan Khanashvili is a senior research lead at Hunters who spends every waking moment hunting bad actors in cyberspace. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Khanashvili also discusses how Hunters is dealing with the big golden SAML attack and how the attack works, detection and hunting techniques used to find and identify the bad guys, a potential solution, and who is at risk of a SAML attack, even a cybersecurity expert.

Richard Bird is the chief product officer for SecZetta. Bird is a multi time C level executive in both the corporate and startup worlds and is internationally recognized for his expert insights, work and views on cybersecurity data privacy, digital consumer rights and identity centric security. He's also a senior fellow with the CyberTheory Zero Trust Institute.

Peter Bordow is the senior vice president, principal architect and head of quantum systems and emerging technology for information and cybersecurity at Wells Fargo Bank. Before Wells Fargo. Anything that Bordow tells us today is his personal opinion and not the opinion or official position of Wells Fargo Bank. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Bordow discusses the quantum computing hype versus reality: His assessment of our quantum program's current state and more.