2023-07-01Ross J. Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on security. He is one of the pioneers of the economics of information security, peer-to-peer systems, hardware tamper-resistance and API security. He was one of the designers of the international standards for prepayment electricity metering and powerline communications, and was one of the inventors of the AES finalist encryption algorithm Serpent. In 2015 he won the Lovelace Medal, Britain’s top award in computing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
2023-05-26Max Smeets is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich and Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative. He is the author of ‘No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force’ (Oxford University Press & Hurst Publishers, 2022) and co-editor of ‘Deter, Disrupt or Deceive? Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest’ (Georgetown University Press, 2023) and ‘Cyberspace and Instability’ (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
2023-05-04“Cyber Persistence Theory” – a paradigm-shifting book that has already transformed how governments approach the cyber realm. We are delighted to have the authors as our guests on the No Name Podcast!
Michael Fischerkeller is a research staff member in the Information, Technology and Systems Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center. Michael has spent his entire professional career supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Combatant and Multi-National Force commanders, and the Intelligence Community. His areas of expertise are cyber strategy, strategic / operational concept development, and analysis / assessment.
2023-03-22Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books — including his latest, A Hacker’s Mind — as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
2023-02-16Sherrod is a long time information security and threat intelligence leader. She was selected as Cybersecurity woman of the year in 2022 and Cybersecurity PR Spokesperson of the year for 2021. Her career in cybersecurity spans 19 years with prior roles including VP Threat research at Proofpoint, leading Security Business Services at Nexum, senior solutions engineer for Symantec, senior security consultant for Secureworks, and senior network security analyst for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
2023-02-09Gavin Wilde is a senior fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he applies his expertise on Russia and information warfare to examine the strategic challenges posed by cyber and influence operations, propaganda, and emerging technologies.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Wilde served on the National Security Council as director for Russia, Baltic, and Caucasus affairs. In addition to managing country-specific portfolios, he focused on formulating and coordinating foreign malign influence, election security, and cyber policies.
2022-12-17National Cyber Director of Estonia, Liisa Past (MA) focuses on protecting the infrastructure of democracy in the digital world and securing our increasingly electronic way of life. As the CISO of the IT and Development Centre at the Estonian Ministry of the Interior, she was responsible for mainstreaming information security practices across technology that saves lives in homeland security, including ISO 27001 compliance, introducing a SOC to consolidate numerous information sources.
2022-12-02Dr. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO of Recorded Future, the world’s largest intelligence company, and Chairman of Hult International Business School. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Recorded Future supports Ukraine from the very beginning. Join us on Sunday Dec 4th at 18:00 EET / 16:00 GMT at No Name Podcast live stream on YouTube for a great discussion. Post your questions to the guest and we will provide options to donate to Ukraine at the stream and in the recording.
2022-11-04We are back with our international series and our next guest is Joe Slowik!
Joe Slowik is a cyber threat intelligence and incident response leader with over 10 years experience across multiple roles in the U.S. government and commercial sector performing cyberthreat intelligence research, incident response, and threat hunting operations. Currently Joe Slowik leads intelligence and detection operations at Gigamon.
Joe focuses on applied network defense concepts while continuing long-form research into cyber norms and critical infrastructure threats. Past experience covers domains ranging from offensive security to industrial control systems (ICS) to free-form threat intelligence research. Joe is always open and seeking opportunities for collaboration, research, and resolving long-standing problems in the network security space.
2022-09-02Our next guest is a very close friend of Ukrainian cybersecurity community, Dr. Kenneth Geers. Some know him from UISGCON, some now him from KNU, some know him by his books, some know him from international conferences as BlackHat or CyCon.
Kenneth Geers, Ph.D., is an External Communications Analyst at Very Good Security. Dr. Geers served for 20 years in the US Government: in the Army, National Security Agency (NSA), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and NATO. Gears is a Fellow at the Atlantic Council, NATO Cyber Centre, and Digital Society Institute-Berlin. He is the author of Strategic Cyber Security, editor of Cyber War in Perspective and The Virtual Battlefield, technical expert to the Tallinn Manual, and author of dozens articles and chapters on cyber conflicts.
2022-08-27Цього разу ми робимо паузу в серії англомовних епізодів та переходимо на українську, щоб записати спеціальне інтерв’ю з Віктором Жорою.
Віктор Жора – заступник голови Державної служби спеціального зв’язку та захисту інформації України (ДССЗЗІ) з питань цифрового розвитку, цифрових трансформацій і цифровізації. До служби в Держспецзв’язку, Віктор був керівником відомої української компанії “Інфосейф ІТ”. У сфері ІТ працює з 2000 року і весь час є активним учасником української спільноти спеціалістів з кібербезпеки.
2022-07-29We continue our series of interviews with renowned international experts in support of Ukraine, and we bet you have read a book of our next guest!
Michal Zalewski, also known by the user name lcamtuf, is a long-time contributor to the information security community and a proud recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Pwnie Award. In addition to identifying hundreds of security flaws in a good chunk of the software that powers the Internet, his notable infosec works include projects such as the American Fuzzy Lop and P0f v3, as well as the famous books “Silence on the Wire,” “The Tangled Web,” and the new 2022 book “Practical Doomsday,” which deals with risk management beyond cybersecurity and teaches threat modeling in real life.
