The Security Ledger Podcasts

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Named one of the world's top information security podcasts, The Security Ledger Podcast offers in-depth interviews with the top minds in information (cyber) security. Hosted by Paul Roberts, Editor in Chief of The Security Ledger, each podcast is a conversation about the cyber security stories making headlines and about the most important trends in the information security space including security and the Internet of Things, the latest cyber threats facing organizations and new paradigms for securing data and devices. A must listen if "cyber" is your thing!

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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

May 16 2024 35 mins  
In this Spotlight Podcast, In this Spotlight episode of the Security Ledger podcast, I interview Chris Walcutt of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT). Chris and I talk about how organizations that manage OT – including critical infrastructure owners – are being targeted by sophisticated cyber actors and the strategies bes

Spotlight Podcast: How AI Is Reshaping The Cyber Threat Landscape

May 02 2024 37 mins  
In this Spotlight episode of the Security Ledger podcast, I interview Jim Broome, the President and CTO of the managed security service provider DirectDefense. Jim and I talk about the findings of DirectDefense’s latest Security Operations Threat Report and dig into the intriguing ways artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping both cyberattack and defense automation

Episode 257: Securing Software on Wheels with Dennis Kengo Oka of Synopsys

Mar 27 2024 34 mins  
In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#257) Paul speaks with Dennis Kengo Oka, a senior principal automotive security strategist at the firm Synopsys about the growing cyber risks to automobiles as connected vehicle features proliferate in the absence of strong cybersecurity protections. [Video Podcast] | [MP3] | [Transcript] Almost from the get-go, automobile

Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data Feudalism? Gary McGraw On LLM Insecurity

Feb 21 2024 32 mins  
In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#256) Paul speaks with Gary McGraw of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML), about that group’s latest report: an Architectural Risk Analysis of Large Language Models. Gary and Paul talk about the many security and integrity risks facing large language model machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how or

Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

Jan 23 2024 29 mins  
In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#255) Paul speaks with Niels Provos – a cybersecurity luminary who helped build Google’s security team from the ground up. Paul and Niels talk about his latest project: the Cyberhouse-Collective, which hopes to inspire new generations of cybersecurity professionals by fusing infosec themes with Electronic Dance Music (EDM), a

Episode 254: Dennis Giese’s Revolutionary Robot Vacuum Liberation Movement

Dec 19 2023 36 mins  
In this Security Ledger Podcast (#254), I speak with Dennis Giese, an independent security researcher and world-renowned IoT device hacker. Dennis is famous for his investigations into the workings of robot vacuum cleaners made by firms like iRobot, Roborock, Dreame and Shark. In this conversation, Dennis and I talk about the evolution of vacuums into smart, autonomous robots bris

Spotlight Podcast: Chris Petersen CEO Of RADICL On Protecting Defense Industry SMBs Spotlight Podcast: RADICL Is Coming To The Rescue Of Defense SMBs

Nov 21 2023 27 mins  
In this Spotlight episode of the Security Ledger podcast, I interview Chris Petersen, the CEO and founder of RADICL, about his company’s mission to protect small and midsized businesses serving the defense industrial base, which are increasingly in the cross-hairs of sophisticated, nation-state actors. [MP3] [Video] [Transcript] The companies that serve the U.S. and other m

Episode 253: DevSecOps Worst Practices With Tanya Janca of We Hack Purple

Oct 04 2023 32 mins  
In this Security Ledger Podcast interview from earlier this year, Tanya Janca of the group We Hack Purple (now SemGrep), talks with Security Ledger host Paul Roberts about the biggest security mistakes that DevSecOps teams make, and application development’s “tragedy of the commons,” as more and more development teams lean on open source code. [Video Podcast] | [MP3] | [

Episode 252: Colin O’Flynn On Hacking An Oven To Make It Stop Lying

Aug 09 2023 42 mins  
In this episode of the podcast (Episode 252), 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. [Video Podcast] | [MP3] | [Transc

Spotlight Podcast: Are you ready for Threat Reconnaissance?

Aug 02 2023 37 mins  
In this Spotlight episode of the Security Ledger podcast, I interview David Monnier, the CIO and Chief Evangelist at the firm Team Cymru (pron. kum–ree) about the evolution of the threat intelligence space and the growing need for what Team Cymru calls “Threat Reconnaissance,” a process for leveraging organization-specific threat intel to help r