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In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts speaks with Colin O'Flynn, CTO and founder of the firm NewAE about his work to patch shoddy software on his home's electric oven - and the bigger questions about owners rights to fix, tinker with or replace the software that powers their connected stuff.

The post Episode 252: Colin O’Flynn On Hacking An Oven To Make It Stop Lying appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

Paul speaks with Steve Orrin, the Federal CTO at Intel Corp about representing Intel and its technologies to Uncle Sam and the impact of the CHIPS Act a massive new federal investment in semiconductors.

The post Episode 249: Intel Federal CTO Steve Orrin on the CHIPS Act and Supply Chain Security appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

With movement towards passage of a federal data privacy law stronger than ever, we invite two experts in to the Security Ledger studio to talk about what that might mean for U.S. residents and businesses: Stacey Gray, who is a Senior Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum and Rehan Jalil, the CEO of Securiti.ai.

The post Episode 206: What Might A Federal Data Privacy Law Mean In the US? appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

In this episode of the podcast (#187), sponsored by Virsec, we talk with journalist and author Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing.net about the recent GE Filtergate incident and how DRM is invading our homes. Also, Satya Gupta the Chief Technology Officer of the firm VirSec joins us to talk about how application runtime monitoring is gaining traction in the age of DevSecOps and left-shifted security.

The post Episode 187: Filtergate is DRM for Water appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

In this episode of the podcast (#184) Kyle Wiens of iFixit joins us to talk about Project BioMed: an international, crowd-sourced effort to expedite repair of medical devices by making service and repair manuals available online. In our second segment, we speak with Jonathan Krones, one of an army of volunteer engineers, archivists and librarians who took on the task of cataloguing medical device repair information.

The post Episode 184: Project BioMed – The Fight to Repair Medical Devices appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast sponsored by LogMeIn and LastPass: the EARN IT Act is slouching its way to passage on Capitol Hill, alarming privacy and civil liberties experts. Andrea Little Limbago of the firm Virtu joins us to talk about why EARN IT is so dangerous. Also: small and medium sized businesses are the majority of businesses in the U.S., but they are often overlooked by the companies marketing and selling security solutions. Rachael Stockton of LogMeIn and LastPass joins us to talk about SMBs struggles to manage identity and authentication challenges.

The post Episode 178: Killing Encryption Softly with the EARN IT Act. Also: SMBs Struggle with Identity appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

In this Spotlight edition of The Security Ledger podcast, sponsored by RSA Security, the Chief Privacy Officer at Nemours Healthcare, Kevin Haynes, joins us to talk about the fast evolving privacy demands on healthcare firms and how the Chief Privacy Officer role is evolving to address new privacy and security threats.

The post Spotlight Podcast: Beyond HIPAA – a Conversation with Nemours CPO Kevin Haynes appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

call it Right to Repair's "Summer of Love." Summer 2019 saw developments on a number of fronts in the nation-wide battle to win a digital right to repair. In this podcast, we talk with Nathan Proctor of US PIRG's Right to Repair campaign and Kyle Wiens of iFixit about the developments.

The post Episode 160 Right to Repair’s Summer of Love – Sort of. appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.

Countless Congressional hearings, 48 state data privacy laws and GDPR and mega breaches like the discovery of data on 500 million Facebook users just keep happening. Why? In this episode of the podcast, Paul is joined by experts from the firm BitSight and BigID to discuss why we can't seem to stop the breaches.

The post Podcast Episode 141: Massive Data Breaches Just Keep Happening. We Talk about Why. appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.