In Tech We Trust

Does a guy who invented virtual reality goggles, stealthy drones, and invisible fences know a few things about innovation? We thought so too. Please join us for a talk with Palmer Luckey.

If I told you I had zero trust in your network, would that make you feel safer? Well, it probably should.

Does your IT staff wash their hands? Wait, no – the question was supposed to ask: do you have good cyber hygiene? At a minimum, this means setting up solid controls and processes to thwart basic hacking attempts. If not done right, attackers can get in, set up ransomware, and demand we stop eating burgers or getting fuel, or worse.

In part two of this podcast, we bring aboard Travis Barlow, Senior Vice President of GoSecure. He provides insight and advice from the front lines of Managed Detection and Response. With Travis, we’ll unpack how to root out advanced cyber attackers and tackle cyber emergencies across multiple industries.

Do you trust foreign actors? No, not Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from Game of Thrones -- we’re talking foreign hackers. You know, the folks responsible for ransomware? Of course not. Getting cyber attacked these days is big business – against businesses large and small. And the attacks are growing in number each day. In part one of this podcast, we talk with our legal expert, Joe Moreno, about the Game of Trust. We touch on the President’s Executive Order, the high-volume-low-cost-cyber-criminal enterprise, how private industry is trying to protect itself against acts of war, and more.

Wait, how much is my Cloud costing me? What do you mean it’s out of compliance?

Listen in, if you use coins, collect coins, or need a little change in your routine.

Every year, the U.S. Mint produces and distributes billions of coins across the United States. But, making and circulating money is just one part of a complex cycle that we all trust, when it comes to our economy. The U.S. Mint relies on, and puts trust in, myriad other technologies to support the ecosystem of coins: from secure supply chains to monetary policy, data exchanges, banks, aggregators, and retailers. In this episode, we mix in a little James Bond lore, Fort Knox history, as well as numismatics, and the business of making money.

Will making a TikTok video with my Huawei phone from a government office land me in policy jail?

Open source code is developed all over the world. Systems & components are built by multiple people in different locations and collectively become the tech we all use every single minute. So how can we secure, inspect, manage, or shut things down (when needed) when trusting technology has gone global? In this episode, we get expert legal counsel and policy guidance on how to tackle challenges we face from China and beyond. If you’re confused by things like CFIUS, 889, NDAA, FIRRMA, or Bruce Willis – we’ve got you covered in this episode.

If I mark my blank PowerPoint slide as secret, does that make it more important?

The United States government classification system is built on levels of trust. However, there is overwhelming agreement by leaders across government that we have a problem with over-classifying systems and information. In this episode, we seek guidance from business leaders and policy experts about how we can get industry and government back on track to work together. We’d tell you more, but… it’s classified.

Should I know where my toilet paper and military aircraft parts are coming from?

In this episode, we discuss the challenges and considerations with trusting the myriad supply chains that citizens inherently trust every day. We talk with leaders from NS2 Labs about holding a virtual hackathon to innovate a supply chain shield, and key executives from Gray Analytics – a cybersecurity company that is working on securing supply chains for national defense and beyond.

Do you inherently trust technology? Today, most of us rely on technology to communicate, drive, shop, bank, and work. From a bigger perspective, we have all learned to trust technology to provide our power, food, fuel, a national defense, and the global economy. Greg Reeder and Brian Paget from NS2 Labs try to unpack a different technology each episode – with insights from experts -- to gain a better perspective on the tech we trust, how it works, and why it matters.