That Tech Pod

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin talk to Katie Boeck. Katie is a singer, songwriter and actor  originally from California where she earned a BA in Theater at UCLA.  She played the Voice of Wendla in the critically acclaimed broadway revival of Spring Awakening garnering a Tony -nomination and a feature on The Nightly News with Lester Holt.  Her rendition of Ave Maria was featured on HBO's The Newsroom and her cover of The Sign was recently featured on the hit reality show Love Island. She just completed work on her upcoming full-length album "Calico" and is workshopping a new collaborative theatrical piece called "Motherhood". She lives in Nashville, TN with her 5 year old son. 

Today on this bonus episode of That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak to EY's Joe Pochron and Lou Bladel.  Joe Pochron is the west region's digital forensic and insider threat lead for EY’s Forensic & Integrity Service Practice, based in San Francisco, CA. Joe’s expertise is in digital forensics, insider threats, and helping EY clients on complex cyber investigations and cyber incidents response needs.Joe has over 20 years of combined experience in digital forensics, cybercrime investigations, eDiscovery, and cyber incident response. During that time, he has investigated or managed thousands of cases involving the collection and analysis of computer, mobile device, network, and cloud-based data. Joe has testified numerous times in local, state, and federal legal matters as a digital forensic expert. Additionally, he frequently provides expert affidavits, or expert forensic reports for clients in support of digital forensic analysis or cyber investigative needs. Joe routinely consults with clients regarding digital forensics, insider threats, data privacy, incident response and electronic discovery matters. He has managed the preservation, analysis, and review of electronically stored information in a wide range of matters including investigations, independent litigation, regulatory compliance and internal inquiries. Joe is a frequent speaker at technical or legal conferences. Additionally, he has been an educator for many industry professionals, serving as an adjunct professor at the university level for many years, teaching courses on digital forensics and cybercrime.Lou is a managing director in the Forensic & Integrity Services practice. He is the Practice Leader for Intellectual Property Theft Services, which assists clients in responding to, investigating and remediating insider threat, intellectual property, trade secret theft and third party risk management. Lou and his team develop and implement comprehensive data integrity and security services. Lou consults with US federal law enforcement agency directors, government regulators and key executives of Fortune 100 companies, Fortune 500 C-suite officials and boards of directors from across industry on matters of economic espionage and insider threats. Lou has over 26 years of federal law enforcement experience serving in the U.S. Marshals Service, Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), retiring from the FBI in 2016. The majority of Lou’s law enforcement career involved leading and investigating counterintelligence matters. Lou has held numerous leadership positions within the FBI, including Special Agent in Charge of the New York office of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division where he led the recent espionage/insider threat arrest and successful plea negotiation of an FBI employee. As Chief of the FBI’s Counterespionage Section, he led the espionage investigations of David Petraeus and Edward Snowden. He also led the production of The Company Man, an award-winning training film that educated private sector companies on the dangers of economic espionage. The film won an Emmy (2016), the CINE Golden Eagle Award (2014) and five gold and bronze Peer Awards. In 2013, he successfully testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission to enhance the criminal penalties for theft of proprietary information. He managed the DuPont economic espionage investigation, which resulted in the FBI’s first-ever jury trial conviction for economic espionage. The case won the 2014 FBI Director’s Award for Counterintelligence Excellence. He was featured on NBC Nightly News promoting awareness of the FBI’s economic espionage program. Lou also won the National Counterintelligence Executive Award for Community Excellence in Leadership for his role in the FBI operation that led Lou frequently speaks at high-profile public and private sector forums. 

Today, Laura and Gabi talk to Co-founder and CTO at Resurface Labs, Rob Dickinson. Rob lives and breathes APIs and how we can learn from user actions. Years at Intel, Dell, and Quest Software frame his passion for customer input, and to architect and build a scalable solution to solve for security, faster troubleshooting, and observability using real API data from real users. Rob is a versatile speaker and able to make complex technical topics accessible and compelling to audiences across the board and at all levels. He has unparalleled insights as a Founder and CTO of a growing API observability firm, and is also an expert on databases, Open Source software, development tools, DevOps, DevSecOps and anything involving bits and bytes.

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Rachel Stern is a Senior Vice President for InState Partners, the venture capital arm of private equity firm, Advantage Capital. As the founder of the business line, over the last decade she has invested in and advised InState’s extensive portfolio companies on how to foster effective partnerships between innovative technology solutions and state and local governments across the country.Rachel is also a graduate of the CORO™ Fellows Program, an intensive, full-time, graduate-level fellowship in public affairs. Through CORO, she worked in multiple sectors of public affairs, including non-profits, public companies and private equity-backed businesses, state government and electoral campaigns.She received her MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and her bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk with Raj Bains. Raj is the founder & CEO of Prophecy. Previously, Raj led project management of Apache Hive at Hortonworks through their IPO. He also headed product management and marketing for a NewSQL database startup. Raj continues to actively develop compiler and database technologies in his quest to create data tools “that don’t suck.” His engineering roles include developing a NewSQL database, building CUDA at NVIDIA as a founding engineer, and as a compiler engineer working on Microsoft Visual Studio.

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with David Burnett.David Burnett has been working at security, identity, and authentication companies for almost 20 years. Early in his career, he spent seven years helping to make strong encryption successful and easy to use while at PGP Corporation and Symantec.  Later, he focused on making biometric authentication easier and more popular than passwords. His work at Nok Nok Labs delivered early successes for the FIDO Alliance, an industry association that promotes a passwordless future. Samsung and Sony used Nok Nok Labs software to power the first FIDO-enabled fingerprint login services on smartphones. PayPal and NTT DOCOMO used Nok Nok Labs software to let their customers log in using FIDO-enabled phones. From these early beginnings, the FIDO Alliance has become a global success story. FIDO technology is used by companies around the world to power passwordless login. And the world's most influential technology companies, such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta, all use and promote FIDO.  After his successes with FIDO and smartphones, David spent several years bringing biometric technology to other consumer devices and types of identity systems. As part of this effort, he lived in Sweden for two years and continued his work with partners around the world. Today, he's the Head of Global Business Development at ZeroBiometrics. He's passionate about an innovative new product that verifies your face without knowing what you look like. This product, ZeroFace is a modern approach to biometric authentication that is inherently privacy preserving. Among its many innovative features is the ability to encrypt your data using your face as the key.

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Ruslan Khamidullin. Ruslan is the Chief Technology Officer of Filmustage, a technology company that is streamlining the film production process using neural network technology.With 10 years of development experience, Ruslan has been able to develop the Filmustage technology to automate the script breakdown process, a painstaking task that is necessary in the production industry. Also a lifelong musician, Ruslan is well-versed in sound design. He would be happy to discuss Filmustage in context of the changes currently happening in the global film industry!

Today On That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Will Plummer. Will is 25-year veteran of the US Army, where he earned a Bronze Star with Valor as a Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician, and commanded multiple Special Operations units with multiple combat deployments. He has an MA from the Naval War College and a BA from the University of California at Chico. Currently, Will is the Chief Security Officer for next-generation mail screening technology provider RaySecur. He leads the company’s physical security efforts, overseeing a team of EOD professionals, and managing client’s threat mitigation efforts.www.thattechpod.com

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with Electronic Arts' Tanmay Gaonkar. Tanmay believes that Data Privacy should not be on-demand, it should rather be built into the infrastructure. He is a data privacy professional, driven to operationalize Privacy and overcome related challenges using analytics and innovation. More often than usual, he finds himself navigating through highly complex data flows in an attempt to build and maintain accurate records of processing of personal information within an organization. His primary focus lies in developing successful relationships with several stakeholders and system owners to help achieve this. He is presently assisting the Privacy Compliance team at Electronic Arts (EA) in planning and implementing Data Mapping. Tanmay is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).www.thattechpod.com

Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Ted Harrington. Ted Harrington is the author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right and the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the company of ethical hackers famous for hacking cars, medical devices, and password managers. He’s helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and more. Ted has helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Disney, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Adobe, Warner Brothers, Qualcomm, and more. For his stewardship of security research that Wired Magazine says “wins the prize, hands down,” Ted has been named both Executive of the Year by the American Business Awards and an SD Metro 40 Under 40 entrepreneur. He leads a team that started and organizes IoT Village, an event whose hacking contest is a three-time DEFCON Black Badge winner, representing the discovery of more than 300 zero-day vulnerabilities (and counting). Ted has been featured in more than 100 media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. His team founded and organizes IoT Village, an event whose hacking contest has produced three DEF CON Black Badges.Learn more here.