In this episode, I talk with Jack Whitsitt, senior strategist at EnergySec. We discuss the ways in which language can either divide or unite people and organizations, the illusion of control when it comes to security, and how any model or framework for security must include people in order to have any chance of success.

In this inaugural episode of the O’Reilly Security Podcast, I talk with Allison Miller, a product manager at Google and my co-chair for the new O’Reilly Security Conference. We discuss her evolving understanding of the nature of risk and fraud in complex systems; the role of humans in technical systems; the cultural downsides of security by obscurity; and the new conference we’re putting together, which is squarely focused on helping defenders.

In this episode of our newly renamed Hardware Podcast, I talk with Ari Gesher, engineering ambassador at Palantir Technologies, and Kipp Bradford, research scientist at the MIT Media Lab.