Cyber Focus The McCrary Institute
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Cyber Focus, from the McCrary Institute, explores the people and ideas that shape and protect our digital world. Each week our host, Frank Cilluffo, speaks with the leading voices in cybersecurity, and brings to light what steps public and private organizations need to be taking to keep our country secure.
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Cyber Focus at RSAC 2024: Google Cloud's Phil Venables
In this episode of Cyber Focus, host Frank Cilluffo sits down with Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer for Google Cloud. They discuss Venables' work co-leading the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's report on cyber-physical resilience, and its key recommendations including creating a national critical infrastructure observatory. The conversation also covers Google's focus on secure-by-design and secure-by-default, the implications of AI/generative AI for...
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Cyber Focus at RSAC 2024: GDIT's Matt Hayden
In this episode of Cyber Focus Frank Cilluffo and Matt Hayden discuss the intricate challenges posed by cyber threats and the role of organizations like CISA in coordinating defense efforts. They discuss the influence of emerging technologies such as AI and quantum computing, the impact of emerging technologies on defenses, and the zero trust security model to enhance resilience.Main Topics CoveredCritical infrastructure threats and vulnerabilitiesLiving off the land techniques used by attack...
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Cyber Focus at RSAC 2024: Flashpoint CEO Josh Lefkowitz
Flashpoint CEO Josh Lefkowitz joins us for a fascinating talk about how 9/11 changed the trajectory of his career, the impact of Telegram worldwide and how A.I. is making human analysts better.
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Cyber Focus at RSAC 2024: Alison King & Elisa Costante
On location at the RSA Conference 2024, we talk to Alison King and Elisa Costante about the National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, the 2024 Report on Cybersecurity Posture of the United States, and creating opportunities for women in cyber.
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Building Blocks of Cyber with Anjana Rajan
In this episode Frank Cilluffo sits down with Anjana Rajan, the assistant national cyber director for technology security at the Office of the National Cyber Director in the White House. Their discussion sheds light on the challenges and complexities of reshaping the cybersecurity landscape with better buildings blocks. Together, they the White House's call for broader use of memory safe programming languages, and how her office is working with the private sector to find ways to elimina...
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Responding Effectively to Foreign Propaganda with Gavin Wilde
Gavin Wilde helped create the formal U.S. assessment of Russia's foreign influence campaigns in 2016 and 2020. Now a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he's asking whether the drive to thwart those efforts in damaging our democracy. In today's episode, Gavin shares with Frank Cilluffo why he is pushing back on assumptions about those campaigns, and the real dangers of believing they are effective. https://tnsr.org/2024/03/from-panic-to-policy-the-limit...