In Episode 11, we spoke with Jason Barthel, the CIO of Rockford Public schools about cybersecurity and privacy risks and challenges of school districts.

In this episode, I spoke to Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal, Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Loyola University of Chicago. We discussed the following topics in cybersecurity: education and current risks.

In this episode, I discussed third-party vendor risk with Arvin Verma and Jonathan Mandell of Teepee Safe.

In this episode, we discussed Aquasight and their technology. We also discussed cybersecurity issues relating to the water industry. For further information, please go to www.aquasight.io.

In this episode we spoke with Myke Cole, currently working as a cybersecurity analyst and as an author. Myke was a former intelligence analyst for a government agency. We conversed on a range of topics from security concerns, deep fakes, and how this technology may be utilized by fraudsters.

In Episode 6, we had an interesting discussion with Aki Peritz, former CIA Analyst. We discussed current events, his experiences, and open source intelligence examples applied by US Intelligence agencies in Iraq and other conflict zones, and how these techniques can be applied to assist US businesses in identifying cyber risks.

In Episode 5, I had a brief discussion with Rahul Patel who is the Elections Information Security Officer with the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners.

In Episode 4 we interviewed Andres Arrieta, the Director of Consumer Privacy Engineering at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org). We discussed the current state of privacy, and the efforts and projects that the EFF undertakes to protect the privacy of consumers and citizens.

In Episode 3, we interviewed Dr. Lorrie Cranor, Director of CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University. We discussed current issues relating to privacy and security and CyLab's groundbreaking efforts in safeguarding information. For more information, go to https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/

In Episode 2 we interviewed Terry Ziemniak, President of North Wonders (https://www.northwonders.com/). We discussed COVID-19 and its implications on cybersecurity and privacy for small businesses.