2026-02-15In this international series episode of No Name Podcast, the team is joined by Gabrielle Joni Verreault — a PhD candidate in bioethics at the University of Montreal, cyber ethicist, and researcher who has spent the last four years deeply embedded in Ukraine’s war effort as both an academic and a volunteer. The conversation explores the ethics of civilian involvement in cyber operations and hacktivism, the moral imperatives driving volunteers into war zones, the erosion of hacker culture and ethics, how to teach ethics to cybersecurity professionals without boring them to death, and why AI ethics as a separate discipline is fundamentally flawed. Gabriel also discusses her work at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn and her graphic novel based on the Montreal Declaration for Responsible AI.
2025-12-07In this episode of No Name Podcast’s international series, we speak with Kamil Bojarski, a leading Polish cybersecurity expert specializing in threat intelligence and counterintelligence in the private sector. The discussion covers the evolution from reactive cybersecurity to proactive threat hunting, the role of private companies in APT attribution, and the geopolitical dimensions of cyber conflicts between the West, Russia, and China.
2025-09-02Thomas Dullien, (a.k.a. Halvar Flake) is a mathematician-turned-cybersecurity luminary and engineer. He co-founded zynamics, the reverse‑engineering tools company behind BinDiff, BinNavi, and VxClass, all of which had major impact on binary analysis and were later integrated into Google following its acquisition of zynamics in 2011. He subsequently served as a Staff Engineer at Google Project Zero, contributing to foundational research in software security and exploitability modeling.
In recent years, he shifted focus to computational efficiency and cloud economics. Which brought Thomas to co‑founding optimyze.cloud, a company dedicated to reducing compute waste and improving cloud cost‑efficiency, driven by the end of Moore’s Law and the economics of SaaS infrastructure. The company was acquired by Elastic in 2021.
2024-09-18Daryna Antoniuk is a reporter for Recorded Future News based in Ukraine. She writes about cybersecurity startups, cyberattacks in Eastern Europe and the state of the cyberwar between Ukraine and Russia. She previously was a tech reporter for Forbes Ukraine. Her work has also been published at Sifted, The Kyiv Independent and The Kyiv Post.
2024-05-13Lennart Maschmeyer is a senior researcher in cybersecurity at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. Lennart’s research examines the subversive nature of cyber power, focusing on its operational challenges and strategic limitations. In particular, he has studied the use of cyber operations in the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014. As part of this research, Lennart also investigates the effectiveness of social media disinformation as a subversive instrument.
2023-08-07Dr. Margaret Smith is a US Army Cyber Officer and Army Planner at Department of the Army, Military Operations, and an academic who holds Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration.
Dr. Smith’s research and teaching interests are focused on social media and the effects of disinformation campaigns as a national security challenge and the geopolitics of military cyberspace operations. She is a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and graduate faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park where she teaches courses on near-peer and strategic competition for the Terrorism Studies program that investigates the geopolitics of the modern world and the tensions and relationships that shape state behavior, conflict, competition, and cooperation. Finally, Dr. Smith direct’s the Cyber Project for the Irregular Warfare Initiative, serving as the editor and curator of the organization’s cyber-focused content.
2023-07-24Ross 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. Furthermore, he was one of the designers of the international standards for prepayment electricity metering and power line 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.
2023-06-19Max 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).
2023-05-15“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. Richard J. Harknett is Professor and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. He also co-directs the Ohio Cyber Range Institute, a state-wide organization supporting education, workforce, economic, and research development in cybersecurity. He served as Scholar-in-Residence at US Cyber Command and National Security Agency and has held two Fulbright Professor positions.
2023-03-27Bruce 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.
2023-02-26Gavin 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. Gavin is also an Adjunct Professor at The Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies.
2023-02-26Sherrod 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). Sherrod is a frequently cited threat intelligence expert in media including televised appearances on the BBC news and commentary in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Times, and more. She is a well known public speaker, having presented at Black Hat, RSA conference, RMISC, BrunchCon, and others. In her personal time, Sherrod does Pilates, loves to go to live music shows, and spends time with her rescue dog Boris Karloff.
