Crucial Tech

Jan 31 2025 208 ep. 24 mins 2

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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.

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Episode 10.5 - Lawyers and insurance companies stand firm on security

Jan 31 2025 27 mins

This week, we are talking to a lawyer. Maryam Meseha is a founding partner of Pierson Ferdinand LLC, a relatively new and large firm dedicated to digital security. In the first few weeks of the year, the new US administration has castrated the governmental infrastructure to make sure corporation keep customer data safe, especially in the area of retail fraud. It’s law firms, like

Episode 10.4 - How moderation works (It ain't what you think)

Jan 21 2025 11 mins

I've had several discussions about the nature of censorship, the freedom of speech and moderation and I came to the realization that most people have no idea what sociial media moderation is. So I did a bit of a rant. We also are bringing back the top threat reports from Fletch for a bit of lightheartedness before the rant.

Episode 10.3 - James Bore on our fascination with shiny objects

Jan 17 2025 27 mins

James Bore is a cybersecurity consultant, speaker and publisher based in the UK. He has a refined sense of cynicism that clicks with my own, so we've been chatting back and forth for several months on various subjects and decided it's probably time to record some of our interaction. Today, we are looking at the preferred marketing practice (shiny objects) of sewing fear, un

Episode 10.2 - Bye bye, Zuck

Jan 09 2025 25 mins

For about two years, the team at Cyber Protection Magazine has debated whether Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram and *shudder* WhatsApp) were valuable or even necessary for the reach of our magazine. For two years, I've been outvoted every time. Instead, I unilaterally decided to divorce from the platforms. Providentially, Mark Zuckerberg made two announcements in as many weeks t

Episode 10.1 - China, oligarchs and tradewars with Lou and Ian

Jan 02 2025 35 mins

We open a new year and a new season with our friend, Ian Thornton-Trump, chief information security officer at the MSSP Inversion6 and in 30 minutes we take on some pretty meaty subjects. First we discuss how China strategically infiltrated technology systems in the US and other countries as a geopolitical message rather than attacks. He discusses the challenges of securing comple

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

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.

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.

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