Cybersecurity Unplugged

Tal Kollender is the CEO, co-founder and CISO of GYTPOL, a company whose product monitors and remediates risks caused by misconfigurations. GYTPOL changes the way organizations protect themselves by seeing their network through the eyes of a hacker.

In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Tal Kollender discusses:

• The lessons learned from the Colonial Pipeline attack;
• How GYTPOL "thinks like a hacker" in order to prevent hacks;
• How misconfiguration is the largest attack vector and how to fix it;
• Marketing noise in the cybersecurity space.

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 Unplugged, Braw discusses:

• The Colonial Pipeline attack and our lack of preparedness;
• How to create more public awareness about responding to cyberattacks;
• The history of solar and our resource dependencies on China;
• How narcissism is a national security threat.

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 cybersecurity insurance is and what it covers;
• What would have happened if Colonial Pipeline had been insured;
• Risks, rates and trends in the insurance industry.

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 and Professor of IT and cybersecurity and has served in leadership positions in STEM and CTE education in K-12 and higher education. Dr. Monthie currently serves on the Board of Directors for the AZ Cyber Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to high school cybersecurity education.

Janine Darling is the founder and CEO of STASH, a data compromise and ransomware protection solution. She is an award-winning CXO and technical strategist who has held prominent leadership roles for commercial product and service companies of multiple genres. She has driven the expansion and profitability of many well-known global brands including Sony, Barnes & Noble, Everlast, Chanel, Mark, Nestle, Samsung and Starbucks. Her expertise in devising innovative business strategy and leveraging well considered risk to optimum outcome is well documented. Darling's commitment to transparency and trustworthiness is a constant; customers are always center stage.

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 research VP at Gartner for their IT Security Research Practice and held CMO and CSO roles.

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 Executive Council for CNBC.

In this episode, Kellermann discusses:

• The vulnerability of U.S. energy infrastructure;
• The geopolitical motivations behind the Colonial Pipeline attack;
• What Colonial should do now to mitigate the damage.

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 recognize that there's a lot of work to be done to increase the number of women in tech, but they are nowhere near giving up.

In this episode, Root and Carter discuss:

• How they each pivoted into their current careers;
• How to create pathways for women in tech;
• Collaboration and collective knowledge building in cybersecurity;
• And the outlook for technology and cybersecurity education.

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 discusses:

• The cybersecurity talent gap and how to address it;
• What it takes to build top-notch talent and identify programs that promote excellence;
• How he became interested in digital forensics;
• And his advice for anyone who wants to get into the field of 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, discusses:

• How to practically implement zero trust;
• Shifting focus from worrying about the attack surface to securing the "protect surface";
• The future threat of quantum and the fear of falling behind;
• And the difference between digital and kinetic warfare.