The Security Ledger Podcast

The Security Ledger Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 207: Sarah Tatsis of BlackBerry on finding and Keeping Women in Cyber
March 19, 2021

In this week’s episode of the podcast (#207) we speak with Sara Tatsis of the firm Blackberry about her 20 year career at the legendary mobile device maker and the myriad challenges attracting women to- and keeping them in the information security field.

Encore Edition: Veracode CEO Sam King on Infosec’s Leaky Talent Pipeline
March 12, 2021

Women are more than 50% of the population, but barely 20% of the information security workforce. Why? In this encore podcast in honor of Women’s History Month, we revisit a 2019 interview with Veracode CEO Sam King to talk about cybersecurity’s leaky t...

Episode 206: What Might A Federal Data Privacy Law Mean In the US?
March 07, 2021

With movement towards passage of a federal data privacy law stronger than ever, we invite two experts in to the Security Ledger studio to talk about what that might mean for U.S. residents and businesses: Stacey Gray,

Episode 205 – Google’s Camille Stewart: InfoSec’s Lack of Diversity is a Cyber Risk
February 26, 2021

In this interview, Camille Stewart, Google’s Head of Security Policy for Google Play and Android explains how understanding how systemic racism influences cyber security is integral to protecting the American people and defending the country from cyber...

Episode 204: Josh Corman of CISA on securing the Vaccine Supply Chain
February 18, 2021

Joshua Corman, the Chief Strategist for Healthcare and COVID on CISA’s COVID Task Force, joins us to talk about the myriad of cyber threats facing healthcare and the vaccine distribution system and how the federal government is working to counter them.

Episode 203: Don’t Hack The Water and Black Girls Hack Founder Tennisha Martin
February 15, 2021

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#203) we talk about the apparent hack of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar Florida with Frank Downs of the firm BlueVoyant. In our second segment: is infosec’s lack of diversity a bug or a feature?

Episode 202: The Byte Stops Here – Biden’s Cyber Agenda
February 05, 2021

Even before Solar Storm, Joe Biden had made it clear that a cyber security reset was needed. But what will that reset look like? To understand a bit better what might be in store in the months ahead we devoted this episode of the podcast to interviewin...

Episode 201: Bug Hunting with Sick Codes
January 29, 2021

The work of vulnerability research has changed a lot in the last two decades. In this episode, Security Ledger Podcast host Paul Roberts chats with the independent researcher known as “Sick Codes” about the growing risk of open source supply chain hack...

Episode 200: Sakura Samurai Wants To Make Hacking Groups Cool Again. And: Automating Our Way Out of PKI Chaos
January 22, 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#200), sponsored by Digicert: John Jackson, founder of the group Sakura Samurai talks to us about his quest to make hacking groups cool again. Also: we talk with Avesta Hojjati of the firm Digicert about the challenge of...

Episode 199 COVID’s Other Legacy: Data Theft and Enterprise Insecurity
January 08, 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#199), sponsored by LastPass, we talk with Shareth Ben of Securonix about how massive layoffs that have resulted from the COVID pandemic put organizations at far greater risk of data theft. In our second segment,