The Security Ledger Podcast

The Security Ledger Podcast


Latest Episodes

Podcast Episode 141: Massive Data Breaches Just Keep Happening. We Talk about Why.
April 09, 2019

Countless Congressional hearings, 48 state data privacy laws and GDPR and mega breaches like the discovery of data on 500 million Facebook users just keep happening. Why? In this episode of the podcast, Paul is joined by experts from the firm BitSight ...

Podcast Episode 140: passwords are dying. What will replace them?
April 02, 2019

Alpha-numeric passwords have been with us almost since the dawn of the computing age. But our guest this week, Phil Dunkelberger the CEO of Nok Nok Labs, says they've overstayed their welcome, and that the next few years may see them disappear altogeth...

Podcast Episode 139: the State(s) of Right to Repair and API Insecurity on GitHub
March 26, 2019

In our latest podcast episode we're joined by Kyle Wiens of iFixit to talk about right to repair legislation pending in 20 states. Also: Dmitry Sotnikov of 42Crunch joins us to talk about API insecurity on GitHub.

Podcast Episode 138: Hacker President? Joseph Menn of Reuters talks Beto and Cult of the Dead Cow
March 19, 2019

In this exclusive podcast interview with Security Ledger, Reuters investigative technology journalist Joseph Menn talks about his upcoming book on the iconic hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow and his discovery that U.S.

Spotlight: CTIA’s IoT Cybersecurity Certification is a Big Deal. Here’s why.
March 13, 2019

Forget about Congress's latest attempt to regulate IoT security. CTIAs new certification is the toothiest standard going. In this Spotlight Podcast, we talk with Sameer Dixit of Spirent * on the sidelines of RSA about why. 

Podcast Episode 137 Sponsored by Code42: GirlScouts to the Rescue and Rethinking Enterprise DLP
March 12, 2019

In this week's episode (#137): Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Chief Information Security Officer Elizabeth Joyce joins us to talk about HPE's collaboration with Girl Scouts of America to bolster teenagers cyber security chops and encourage more young...

Podcast Episode 136: The Geopolitics of Cyber Attacks with LookingGlass and Bruce Schneier on Public Interest Cyber
March 04, 2019

How will the collapse of the North Korean summit affect that country’s malicious activity online? LookingGlass* joins us to discuss. Also: how to attract more technologists to public interest work. Note: this week’s podcast episode (#136) is sponsored ...

Spotlight: Synopsys on democratizing Secure Software Development
February 27, 2019

We speak with Ravi Iyer, the Head of Product Management talks to us about the "democratization" of software development, as more and more companies become software publishers. Ravi and I talk about Polaris,

Podcast Episode 135: The Future of Passwords with Google Account Security Chief Guemmy Kim
February 26, 2019

In this week’s episode (#135): we continue our series on the future of Passwords as we are joined by Guemmy Kim, a group product manager at Google in charge of that company’s account security initiatives. 

Podcast Episode 134: The Deep Fake Threat to Authentication and analyzing the PEAR Compromise
February 19, 2019

Vijay Balasubramaniyan of Pindrop joins us to talk about it. And, in our second segment, Sam Bisbee the CSO of the firm ThreatStack joins us to talk about last month's hack of the PEAR open source package manager and why data deserialization attacks ar...