This week we are joined by Violet Sullivan, Vice President of Client Engagement for Redpoint Cybersecurity, and incident response expert. Violet discusses how incident response has changed over the past five years, how ransomware has changed IR plans and how companies respond to attacks, and how cyber insurance has pushed revisions to incident response. We also discuss the role incident response plays in litigation management, and what companies can do to improve their response and reduce risk.

In this episode, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive discusses his work backing up the Internet, TV, radio, chats, etc. around the globe, and the role it plays in preserving not only data, but cultures of countries. Mark describes the value of having content preserved and accessible from a source where governments can’t take it down and discusses the Internet Archive’s project in backing up and scanning data important to Urkaine’s culture, which is getting destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Archive.org and the Wayback Machine are live and freely accessible to research, journalism, academia, businesses, and ordinary people. Additional Resources: • https://archive.org/web/ • https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/our-mission-is-crucial-meet-the-warrior-librarians-of-ukraine • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/russia-nord-stream-tucker-carlson-fox-news/ • http://blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/weaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWfqV_adW54&t=19842s

In this episode, we are joined by Matthew Esworthy, partner at Bowie-Jensen LLP, to discuss geofence warrants and their use by law enforcement in investigating the January 6 insurrection. Geofence warrants involve court issued warrants for geolocation data from Google. These warrants were sealed and have only recently come to light through motions to suppress the evidence obtained from the geofence warrants. We explore Google’s process for responding to the 10,000 warrants it receives annually and the constitutional and legal issues swirling around them.

This week we are joined by Ron Raether, co-lead of the Privacy + Cyber team at Troutman Pepper, and explore aspects of the recent criminal conviction of Uber’s former CISO and fallout from Twitter’s former CISO turning whistleblower. The “culture of fear” that has developed in CISO offices nationwide has dramatically increased risk for companies that have such a culture. Ron Raether discusses how organizations can better support their CISOs and how the general counsel and outside counsel can help influence change in organizations for better governance and cyber risk management. We also explore how CISOs can gain more C-suite visibility and board access.

This week we are joined by Rachel Briggs and Richard Brinson from Savanti, a UK-based cybersecurity consulting entity. Richard Brinson is CEO of Savanti, has been CISO at several large corporations, including Unilever and Sainsbury’s. He was named one of the top CISOs in the world and has over 20 years of experience in the field. Rachel Briggs is an Executive Adviser to Savanti and a leading expert on security and regularly advises large multinationals and governments. She is an Associate Fellow and Chatam House and was awarded the OBE in 2014. Richard and Rachel have just authored The Future of Cyber Security Leadership Series and their first publication is “Cyber Security Leadership is Broken: Here’s how to fix it.”

In this episode, two incredible guests discuss Cyber Command, its role and jurisdiction, and what it can do in cyber conflict situations and how it may help the private sector when under nation state attacks. Gary Corn is director of the Technology, Law & Security Program at American University’s Washington College of Law and former career military with his last position as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) to U.S. Cyber Command. Jamil N. Jaffer is the Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute, and an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the National Security Law & Policy Program and the nation’s first Cyber, Intelligence, and National Security LLM at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Jamil is also affiliated with Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and served on the leadership teams of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor and as Senior Counsel to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

This week we are joined by Carlos Solari, ADCG Advisory Board Member and VP of Product for SecureG, Inc., a company developing universal security technologies for 5G, industrial IoT and other critical infrastructure.We discuss 5G availability, how an orchestrated 5G attack could occur, how to rethink the security problem with 5G, and how 5G is connected to national security.

This episode features Cory Simpson, Founder & CEO of Gray Space Strategies Inc., who discusses the relationship between privacy, cybersecurity, and national security. He draws upon his experience as Senior Director and lead for the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission and discusses whether the U.S. Government and private sector are prepared for conflict involving critical infrastructure. Cory also describes how national security has evolved over the past several decades and looks at how some privacy protections in the American Data Privacy & Protection Act may be important national security considerations.

This episode features Andrew Grosso, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and tech lawyer whose practice focuses on whistleblower complaints. We take a look at the legal framework for whistleblowers and protections afforded them and then delve into the Twitter whistleblower case in which their former CISO handed over evidence to the DOJ, FTC, and SEC detailing gaps in Twitter’s cybersecurity practices. We discuss whether we are on the edge of a new trend...tech whistleblowers who will expose privacy and cybersecurity gaps within the companies they work for.

In this episode we interview David Navetta, vice chair of Cooley LLP's cyber/data/privacy practice and a prominent leader in privacy, information security and technology law. We discuss the differences between cybersecurity governance and privacy governance, what are the critical activities in privacy governance, what actions are the hardest for organizations to implement, and how privacy governance will evolve in the future. David is a frontrunner in privacy and security and shares his decades of experience and insights into what lies ahead in these fields.