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Joining us this week is Jason Steer, principal security strategist at Recorded Future. Our conversation centers on the state of threat intelligence in a rapidly changing security environment, how organizations are adapting and evolving their threat intelligence strategies, as well as Jason Steer’s outlook on some of the security challenges professionals are likely to face in the year ahead.

Rick Howard has enjoyed a distinguished career in cybersecurity, including time in the U.S. Army and as chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks. These days, I’m proud to call Rick my colleague at the CyberWire, where he serves as our chief security officer and chief analyst. 
Rick Howard is also creator of the podcast series CSO Perspectives, where he explores the wide spectrum of issues facing chief security officers. In an early season of that show, Rick focuses on the notion of first principles, the foundational notions on which our fundamental security ideas and beliefs rest.
Rick Howard joins us this week for an overview of first principles — what it means, how to implement it, and how to convince the powers that be in your organization that it’s the right thing to do.

Bad actors continue to accelerate their use of inauthentic or captured online identities to facilitate their activities. Whether it’s phishing for credentials, making use of leaked identity databases or scraping publicly accessible information, they take advantage of weaknesses in identity management systems and inadequate awareness to make their way into and, once inside, around systems.
Our guest this week is Recorded Future’s Vice President of Product Management, Jamie Zajac. She explains the ongoing challenges organizations face with identity fraud, and what can be done to prevent it.

Distributed Denial of Services attacks continue to grow in size, frequency and sophistication, and it’s in every organization’s best interest to properly prepare themselves against this sort of online attack. 
The team at Cloudflare recently published their 2021 Q3 report on DDoS, outlining their observations and recommendations for mitigating DDoS attacks.
Joining us is John Graham-Cumming, CTO at Cloudflare, to share his insights on the state of the DDoS threat, and where things may be headed.

Joining us this week is Herbert Lin, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow at Stanford University. He’s author of the book, Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons, in which he outlines the challenges the U.S. faces in modernizing the control systems for our nuclear weapons arsenal, the dangers of connecting these systems to the internet, and the peril of feature-creep and increased complexity in the nuclear age.

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group recently published a report titled, “Cyber Threats to Veterans in 2021: Spam and Scams Exploit Support for Veterans.” The report outlines the ways online scammers are targeting both veterans themselves and people who may be sympathetic to causes that claim to support veterans. 
Andrew McIntyre and David Carver are members of the Recorded Future Insikt Group’s subscriptions and periodicals team, and they join us with insights from the report.