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Chris DiSalle is a Senior Incident Response Consultant at the prestigious Cisco Talos Intelligence Group and was this week's guest on Technado. He talked about how he worked his way up to where he is today before he and the team discussed some pre-ransomware best practices. Then, in the news, the guys looked at ProtonMail's logging of IP address, a disgruntled former employee destroying 20 Gigabytes of a credit union's data on her way out, Microsoft announcing Visual Studio Code for the web, and a new BrakTooth Bluetooth vulnerability. Finally, in Deja News, they followed up on the leaked gun owner database in the UK. Lock and load!

Dimitri Nemirovsky, the Co-Founder and COO of Atakama, joined Technado this week to talk about his journey from lawyer to tech exec. He also explained the difference between cybersecurity and information security. In the news, the team focussed on the launch announcement for Windows 11, specifically when it will come out, how it will work on non-compliant PCs, and Microsoft disabling updates for unsupported installs. In other news, they discussed a Western Digital speed decrease on the SN550 SSD drive and a man arrested for hacking private photos from iCloud before looking at Deja News of another peripheral giving anyone admin rights on Windows 10.

On this week's Technado, the crew was joined by OnDefend's cofounder Ben Finke. Ben talked about some interesting tools to help blue-teamers, as well as helping the team dissect the latest T-Mobile hack. In the news, the guys discussed Apple's iCloud Passwords coming to Windows, Ubuntu getting certified for secure and regulated workloads, Cloudflare stopping a record-breaking DDoS attack, a Razer bug that affects Windows 10, and a massive Microsoft breach that included socials and medical records.

NS1 Cofounder and CEO Kris Beevers joined Technado this week where he shared his unique journey from robotics to application traffic automation intelligence solutions. He also shared how edge computing, edge networking, and edge data management work together for application success. In the news, the team discussed the release of Debian 11, Start11 bringing a familiar experience to Windows 11, a new all-Russian PC manufacturer’s release, and chip delays hitting 20 weeks. Finally, in ‘Deja News,’ they covered another shortage, this time with AT&T residential fiber.

This week’s Technado featured Storj COO John Gleeson, who talked all about their Zero Trust decentralized cloud object storage service. In the ‘What Grinds My Gears’ segment, he discussed how the term Zero Trust is often misused. In the news, the team covered the impressive new WireGuardNT, the new ability for Windows admins to block external devices with layered group policy, the latest on the ElasticSearch saga, Zoom settling with California over privacy concerns, and Google swapping Bluetooth for NFC in their Titan Security Keys. Finally, in ‘That Makes No Sense,’ they discussed the legitimacy of a new way to secure your phone from hackers.

John Morgan, the CEO of the cloud cybersecurity detection and response company Confluera, was this week’s guest. After sharing how he got to where he is, he talked about the current state of public cloud security. In the news, the team discussed Google moving on from Qualcomm processors in their phones, the end of Itanium chips, Amazon’s hefty GDPR fine, how a spoofed Brave.com got a lift from Google, and the most exploited vulnerabilities from the FBI and CISA. Finally, in the “D’oh” segment, they looked at the irony of a scam-baiting YouTube channel falling for a tech support scam. Oops.

On this week’s Technado, OneView Commerce’s CEO Linda Palanza joined the team to discuss the future of commerce. After sharing how Covid has impacted the customer experience, she covered the importance of omnichannel. Then, in the news, the guys covered the new limits some states have put on power-hungry PCs like Dell’s Alienware, a new Windows 10 vulnerability that allows easy admin privileges, how a one-character type bricked some Chrome OS devices, seized VPN servers in Ukraine that weren’t encrypted, and a data breach at a UK gun retailer’s CRM. Finally, in Deja News, they shared an update on Kaseya’s efforts to recover data after their REvil attack.

Snehal Antani, the Co-founder and CEO of Horizon3.ai, joined Technado this week to discuss penetration testing-as-a-service. He also talked about the important distinction between vulnerable and exploitable in cybersecurity. In the news, the team covered Microsoft’s new Windows 365, the Linux kernel cutting IDE support, Google Drive replacing Backup and Sync with Drive File Stream, and Gmail deploying BIMI security. Finally, in Deja News, Don’s prediction of a Microsoft distro of Linux came true with CBL - Mariner.

It's that time of year again where we look back at our favorite guests and articles from 2021 on Technado. Each of the hosts shares their favorites and we look back at clips of those episodes. What were your favorites?

Technado welcomed an old friend this week, CompTIA’s Chief Technology Evangelist Dr. James Stanger. He shared some more insights on the future of CompTIA certs, and warned cybersecurity pros against focussing on the ‘attack du jour.’ Wes Bryan and Ronnie Wong filled in for Don and Daniel, breaking down news like Microsoft Edge passing Firefox in usage, a new Microsoft Teams certification, New York City’s new cyberdefense center, a Kaspersky password manager flaw, and SEO poisoning targeting people with malware. Finally, they looked at some new tech that lets you generate a QR code to easily share your home WiFi info with guests.