The Role of Cyber in Geopolitics

In this episode, Julia is joined by cybersecurity expert Adam Meyers, the senior vice president of intelligence for CrowdStrike.  Meyers looks after CrowdStrike’s intelligence gathering and cyber-adversarial monitoring activities, which include around 185 adversaries. 

With more than twenty years of experience in cybersecurity, Meyers has a talent for breaking down incredibly complex and nuanced concepts in cyber for everyday folks.   

In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss Chinese cyber economic espionage, the greatest transfer of wealth. The discussion also touches on North Korea’s targeting of cryptocurrency and decentralized financial systems for revenue generation meant to increase state wealth. The discussion explores data weaponization by hackers and the worrisome trend of making that data easily searchable and accessible. Meyers sheds light on cyber threats from Russia and details the growing threat of election meddling.