Mia Landsem joins host Manoj Tandon in this episode of Security Confidential. From Norway, Mia discusses how a series of unfortunate events led into an astonishing Career choice. Mia has used her skills in cybersecurity to help many people. She has focused her attention on image abuse which led to a nomination in 2021 as Cybersecurity Women of The Year. She is a best selling author, has numerous TV appearances, lectured at over 300 schools, and has helped train law enforcement on pursuing criminals posting pictures of minors.

00:00 Introduction 

01:16 How Mia got into Cybersecurity 

03:17 Making The Olympic Team 

04:27 Learnings from sports training applied to cybersecurity 

07:20 Advice on Cyberbullying 

09:30 Law enforcement response to Cyberbullying  

11:00 The Law and illicit pictures of minors 

16:54 Using Cyber knowledge to stop Image Abuse 

22:21 Changing the Laws on Image Abuse 

24:14 Working with the Police  

29:51 Cybersecurity Woman of the Year  

31:03 Privacy rules and catching pedophiles  

36:20 Moving forward  

42: 45 How illicit pictures are propagated  

53:23 Can pedophiles recover? 

55:00 Contacting Mia