Crucial Tech

Dec 06 2024 203 ep. 24 mins 1

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Unraveling the technology that affects us all but that few of us understand, in a format to give you a basic understanding in the time it takes to drive to and from the grocery store. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

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Episode 9.11 - Who do you Trust?

Dec 06 2024 15 mins

The available guests for this last podcast of the year dried up pretty quickly so I thought I would give some closing thoughts on a big issue facing the world: Trust and the lack of it. Also, our last threat reports courtesy of Fletch.ai --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

Threat report for Thanksgiving week

Nov 27 2024 5 mins

Our friends at Fletch provide a grand slam of threats for Thanksgiving week, covering Apple, Android, AWS and Microsoft vulnerabilities No regular podcast this week but we will be back next week with a possible new way to abuse AI. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

Episode 9.10 - Are consumers getting fed up with security?

Nov 21 2024 28 mins

This is part two of our mashup of recent surveys. This time we talk with Tom Tovar, CEO of Appdome about their comprehensive annual survey of consumer attitudes regarding security in digital technology. The good news is there is a groundswell of security "consciousness" regarding the subject. The bad news is the consumers are not confident that corporations even care. --- Suppor

Episode 9.9 - The mental toll cause by AI

Nov 19 2024 25 mins

This week, a two-parter. I’m still trying to make sense of all the surveys and studies sent to me. Between trying to figure out if they are plagiarized, use inadequate samples, are a lame attempt at self-promotion or are actually good data is almost a full-time job. Luckily I got a couple of good ones this month and am doing another mashup. Today’s interview is with Frank Terue

Episode 9.8 - Top threat reports and a preview of what's coming

Nov 15 2024 13 mins

This episode includes our weekly top cyber threats with help from Fletch and this week Cyjax, and a shot interview with cybersecurity contrarian James Bore, a consultant in the UK with a kindred spirit. The interview is introducing the theme for Cyber Protection Magazine next year. Put up or shut up. The past decade has been filled with optimism in the tech sector about what they t

Episode 9.7 - How to boost customer confidence in security

Nov 05 2024 26 mins

I received more than dozen studies and reports on the "state of cybersecurity" all with different foci depending on the company that was pushing the document. It seems like they are replacing press releases as a primary marketing tool. But there was one thing that jumped out of me. Almost every one of them had a throwaway line that customers had #zerotrust in the effiicacy of the t

Special episode: Threat reports for Nov 5

Nov 04 2024 7 mins

Here's our top three threat reports for the week. Hackers are targeting gambling apps on mobile devices and obsolete Microsoft products. Thanks to the folks at Fletch for the info --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

Special episode: Top three threat reports for the week

Oct 28 2024 5 mins

Our friends at Fletch.AI dropped a bunch of threat reports this week, here's what we see as the top three. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support

Episode 9.6 - FHE starts getting serious

Oct 24 2024 32 mins

I bet you never heard of FHE. Me neither. Then I got a pitch about it. Tried to ignore it because I had never herd of it, but they were insistent. Turns out to be interesting. Fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, has been talked about for about five years but not it has its very own industry association and NIST is starting to take it very seriously. It doesn't eliminate quantum e

Special episode -Threat reports for October 21

Oct 21 2024 8 mins

After getting knocked for a loop with a dose of Covid I'm slowly crawling back to the desk and providing some timely advice regarding current and predicted threat reports from our friends at Fletch. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crucialtech/support