Rajeev Gupta is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Cowbell Cyber. We talk about what's wrong with the traditional way of assessing cyber risk and issuing insurance, and how new AI technologies can disrupt that for a more efficient process. Naturally, too, we dig into the origin story of that killer brand name!

Ted Harrington is the Executive Partner of Independent Security Evaluators and author of Hackable: How to Do Application Security Right. We talk about ethical hacking and the necessity of a competitive mindset for security teams to face their daily adversaries. We get into the principles of his book and how they apply to overall business processes.

We talk with Dr. Mohsen Mosleh of MIT's Sloan School of Management, about research he's conducted with Dr. David Rand and Dr. Gordon Pennycook into the psychology of why people share fake news on social media — even if they know it's fake! The findings from the study challenge preconceived notions, and we talk about design mechanisms that have been shown to help mitigate the spread of fake news.

We speak with Taz Khan, cybersecurity expert by day, and host of Security, Privacy & a Lot of Other Bullsh*t, on Instagram, where she goes by Tech With Taz. She's also the founder of the Cyber Collective. We discuss the rising cybersecurity consciousness among consumers, and the parallels with her advisory work with corporate clients. AS she does on Instagram, Taz spits straight fire, don't miss this episode!

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We'll see you next year! Farewell 2020! by SafeGuard Cyber

Lee Caraher, CEO of Double Forte PR, joins us to talk CEOs and social media. 2020, she contends, has been a "break the glass" moment for executive leaders, where being on social media is no longer an option, it's a business imperative. We talk account security, and how to use these channels where "you don't own the data."

Mike Convertino, Chief Security Officer of Resilience Insurance, joins us to talk about his journey from phreaking to hacking to defending. We talk about enjoying "the game" that is cybersecurity and how companies can set CISOs up for success.

In this tumultuous year, we're grateful for our listeners and to our guests for being so willing to jump on yet another Zoom call to share their ideas and insights. We'll return next week, November 30th.

We talk to Jon Bateman, a fellow in the Cyber Policy Initiative, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In July he published a paper on Deepfakes threat scenarios facing the financial sector. And we get into CEO and Board responsibilities when it comes to information security, and the implications for cyber insurance from NotPetya litigation.

K-12 education is under attack. Ransomware attacks disrupting school systems is a near daily occurrence, as if teachers and IT teams didn't have enough to worry about with just trying to get online learning to work. It seem intractable, so we reached out to K12 expert, Frosty Walker. He is the former CISO of the Texas Education Agency, and now CEO at ATX Cybersecurity Strategies, in Austin. We dig into budget needs, what's necessary to help defend schools, students, and staff.