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The Salvation Army’s Lachlan McGill, general manager of cyber risk and compliance, and Euan Moore, security operations manager, talk about their experiences building a strong cybersecurity foundation, navigating the organization’s unique challenges and fostering a culture around security awareness.

In this week’s Source Code podcast, we discuss new reporting from Change Healthcare parent UnitedHealth Group that the massive ransomware attack has cost the company $872 million so far. We also talk about recent research about Sandworm, which has been designated by Mandiant as APT44.

Cody Stokes, a security leader at Procellis Technology, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about his time in the Marine Corps, the challenges of breaking into the cybersecurity field, and the fulfillment he gets from helping to protect users. 

In this week’s Memory Safe episode, Sherrod DeGrippo of Microsoft talks about her first experiences with hacker culture, why a Stanley Kubrik movie shows a glimpse of what AI is, and how she makes sure that “threat intelligence hits the right note.”

Dan Lorenc, co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, joins Dennis Fisher to dig into the recent XZ Utils backdoor incident, the implications for the open source ecosystem, and what can be done to avoid similar incidents in the future. Then they discuss the problems facing NIST's National Vulnerability Database and the CVE ecosystem. 

Rick Gordon of Tidal Cyber joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his path from the US Naval Academy to submarine officer to Wall Street and finally to the cybersecurity industry, where he's worked for the last 25 years. Dennis and Rick also talk about the importance of the community aspect of cybersecurity and why it's vital to the collective defense.