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We have spent a lot of time talking about Ransomeware, and a main attack vector is phishing emails, but there is another very large problem that comes from malicious emails and that is BEC or Business Email Compromise. In fact, the FBI's IC3 reported that there were more than 4.2 billion in losses tied to cyber crime in 2020, and BEC accounted for 60% of that. 

Business Email Compromise is hitting businesses and consumers hard. I'm sure everyone has seen these types of attacks in their inbox. Everything from fraud and romance scams to crypto scams and everything in-between. It is a lucrative business. Today we have with us Mike Britton, CISO for Abnormal Security, a platform that uses a human behavior security engine for blocking email attacks, including phishing, malware, ransomware, social engineering, executive impersonation, supply chain compromise, internal account compromise, spam, and graymail. Mike is here to tell us about Business email compromise and how to protect against it.

Welcome Mike

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Decentralization is all the rage these days. We talk about DeFi or decentralized financial systems, Web3, and reinventing the internet. Today we are going to be taking a look at what the future might look like, because it is closer than you think.

Today we have brought back Dr. Colleen Tartow, renown astrophysicist turned data scientist who is the Director of Engineering at Starburst Data, and FUTR first timer Annika Lewis who has a background in finance and venture capital and is now with Gitcoin, a Community for developers to collaborate and monetize their skills while working on OpenSource projects with bounties. Together, they are going to tell us about the rise of the Data Mesh, Web 3, crypto and the brave new world we are hurtling towards.

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Starburst Data: https://starburst.io
Gitcoin: https://gitcoin.co

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How can you trust what you read, what you watch. Disinformation runs rampant, and identifying reliable news sources is difficult and time consuming. Well, today we are going to be talking to some people who are working on a way to solve that problem.

We love startups, and it is always fun to talk to them in the early stages. Today we are talking with The Newsroom, a startup out of Portugal that utilizes AI, industry expertise, and behavioral psychology to reliably evaluate news stories for trustworthiness. This is something the world desperately needs now. So we are going to talk to TheNewsroom Founders, Pedro Henriques and Jenny Romano about what they are building and why it is so important.

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Today we are talking about Advancing Women in Tech as both a goal and as an organization. We are going to be talking with the Founder and Board Chair of AWIT which works to empower women and members of other underrepresented groups to the highest levels of tech leadership.

We are very privileged have with us Nancy Wang. Nancy may be one of the busiest people in the world of tech. She has led product development for Google, Rubrik and now is General Manager of AWS data protection and governance. She also works on the investment side, is on multiple boards, writes for Forbes, and develops education programs with the University of Pennsylvania. Today, however, we are going to be talking with Nancy about Advancing Women in Technology or AWIT, a 20,000 strong organization that she is very passionate about. We are going to talk about the challenges facing women advancing in technology leadership, and what she is doing to raise women, and other marginalized people up.

Welcome Nancy!

AWIT Courses: https://www.coursera.org/awit
AWIT: https://www.advancingwomenintech.org/

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Watch out for all those old devices with lithium batteries. The batteries will eventually go bad and could start a fire. 

I recently found an old iPhone in my basement that was about to become a major problem. So go and check your junk drawers for any old electronics that might have batteries that could burst and start a fire.

FUTRtech focuses on startups, innovation, culture and the business of emerging tech with weekly video podcasts where Chris Brandt and Sandesh Patel talk with Industry leaders and deep thinkers.

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The world is full of so much data, and collecting, refining, transforming and analyzing it becomes a bigger challenge every day. Like a frog slowly boiling in a pot of water, it all just slowly creeps up on you until you just can't manage it any more. You might be surprised to find that you are suddenly thrust into the world of HPC. So, today we are going to be talking with a well known HPC expert.

One big trend I am starting to see is more and more companies stepping into the big data world with hyper-scale and high performance computing environments. This is a world where one size doesn't fit all, and these environments tend to be more like custom hot rods. Today, we are talking with HPC expert Ryan Quick. Ryan built HPC environments for eBay and Paypal, and now operates his own consultancy to help companies navigate the complexities of these builds. Ryan is going to tell us about what HPC is, what it takes to build and why you might want to start now.

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Do you ever think to yourself, "You know, I should write an app," and then remember, you don't code? Well why let that stop you! Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the world of Low Code/No Code.

Today we are talking with Eoin Hinchy, CEO and founder of Tines, a No Code/Low Code platform that is designed to be the glue that holds all of your disparate pieces of security together. Automation is critical for running a successful security organization, but finding people who have security and coding skills can be difficult. Plus, writing code can be enormously time consuming. Tines promises to solve that problem, giving you a way to rapidly automate your environment without having the burden of maintaining a lot of complex code, and Eoin is here to tell us all about it.

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With an unprecedented number of cyber threats out there, protecting data is top of mind for all businesses. Today we are going to be talking about a way to encrypt data at the source, in transit and at rest. We are going to be talking about confidential computing.

Today we are talking with Fortanix CEO and founder Ambuj Kumar. Fortanix is the industry leader in confidential computing. They decouple data security from infrastructure which allows businesses to centralize control of their secure data across their on-prem, cloud and SaaS platforms. They have raised over $45 Million from prominent investors like Intel and Foundation Capital. Ambuj is going to tell us what confidential computing is, how it works and what it can do for you.

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Confidential Computing in Action: Securing Data and AI Webinar Link:
https://resources.fortanix.com/fx-webinar-confidential-computing-in-action-securing-data-and-ai

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Today we are going to be talking about one of the most dangerous and divisive threats we are facing today, disinformation. We are are going to be talking with the DisInfoGal.

Hey everybody, this is Chris Brandt, welcome to another FUTRtech video podcast. We have all been inundated with bizarre theories, angry memes, obviously wrong facts and friends and family members who seem to be lost in their strange beliefs.

Today we are talking with disinformation educator and consultant, Lindsey Alexander, who is best know as DisInfoGal across YouTube, twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Lindsey started out her career with the FBI and then later moved on to the CIA where she focused on Russia and the Near Abroad. Now she consults with businesses on how to identify and deal with disinformation. So, we are going to pick her multi-lingual, polymath brain on what we need to look out for and how we can defend against it.

Welcome Lindsey

Instagram: @disinfo_gal
Twitter: @disinfo_gal
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9VKdwa5-WuxVLapLL3mPQ
TikTok: @disinfo_gal

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Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and I think many of just accept the magic of the world we live in, not thinking how it all works behind the scenes.

We are going to be talking to one of those companies that make that magic happen.

Today we are talking to Phenix which provides an advanced real-time streaming platform to accelerate the delivery of audio and video, time aligned and at lightning speeds.

To date, Phenix has raised over $33 Million from investors like Verizon and KB Partners.

We are going to be talking with Jed Corenthal CMO of Phenix who is going to tell us about how Real Time Streaming works and why it matters to you.

You can find Phenix at: https://phenixrts.com

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