Information Assured
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Fraud, hacking, threat, technology, and management development recap. We review several recent law enforcement cases from around the world and chat with a guest in law enforcement, research, IT, or other experts and practitioners in information assurance. We leverage 30 years of experience to frame insights on contemporary security trends, breaking technology and information security news, and provide analysis through the perspective of veteran information technology management, information assurance, and security practitioners. Hosted by well seasoned and slightly marinated IT executive Matthew Hall, a veteran of Information Technology industry sectors including law enforcement, investment banking, higher education, academic medicine, state and local government, and oil and gas. Show notes with links provided for each story along with free resources at utterlymental.org.
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Security Hygiene: A Conversation with Microsoft's Bryan Hunt - Information Assured Episode 110
January 26, 2021 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBMy friend and former colleague at Microsoft’s public sector practice, Bryan Hunt, provides a great overview of our present threat landscape and a series of reminders with which to start the year. Ransomware, criminal enterprise, and re-visitation of fundamental practices round out the show. How can you spend the money necessary to get in front of the breach or assault? What’s happening with the spike in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies? What’s driving that? And what about the cost of ...
Into the Election: Two CISOs and a FBI Agent Discuss Election Integrity Episode 109
October 23, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBIt’s that fun time of the year when we all have or will be voting. Families, counties, and the country stand divided and under the influence of foreign intelligence services and criminal enterprise. Our panel discusses many of these topics, including coverage on deep fakes, censorship issues, disinformation campaigns, and the real threat of foreign influence and election intervention. How can we verify what we think we know? How can we better discern what’s out in the environment? In th...
Cyber Counter-Intelligence FBI Special Agent Darren Mott, Retired - Information Assured Episode 108
September 16, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBIt's national insider threat awareness month -- yeah, I didn't know either, but now you do too! We take a brief survey of the Chinese perspectives on national security, including EC-8 surveillance sorties along the South China Sea, an assertion by the Chinese government that they do not interfere with US internal affairs, and the US response to alleged Chinese espionage emerging from the Houston Embassy. A couple of arrest reports for an ex-US Army Special forces officer and a Chinese nati...
2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report with John Virden, CISO at Miami University - Information Assured Episode 107
August 18, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBChinese hackers face US justice; the US Secret Service forms a permanent Cyber Crime task force; the UK’s National Crime Agency’s Operation Venetic yields 746 arrests; Fresno county identity theft arrest and a flamboyant, FBI most wanted Russian hacker’s 5 million dollar bounty rounds out the law enforcement update. Our interview with John Virden follows the roundup. John Virden, Assistant Vice President for Security, Compliance, and Risk Management and CISO at Miami University, and I disc...
So you Want to be a Security Entrepreneur with UCSB Sec Lab's Professor Giovanni Vigna - Information Assured Episode 106
July 16, 2020 21:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBAWS denial of service, on-going investigations $4.7million business email compromise scam, a student-led missing person cyber investigation initiative, NZ’s seizure of $90 million in assets of alleged Russian criminal enterprise, DDOS service for hire sentencing, and mapping out the deep fake landscape rounds out the law enforcement update. Our interview with Giovanni Vigna follows the roundup. Professor and security entrepreneur Giovanni Vigna (UCSB Sec Lab and Founder of Lastline TDI) an...
Digital Evidence with Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Rich Littlehale -- Episode 105
June 17, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBDrones snooping on royals, FBI announces an insider threat conviction, more COVID 19 fraud prevention resources from both Google and the UK Government, cybercrime unit announced in Cumbria, and how Apple approached looting theft from its retail outlets, round out our law enforcement and technology section followed by a conversation with TBI’s Assistant Director for Technology and Innovation, Rich Littlehale. We talk through the International Association of Chiefs of Police Digital Evidenc...
Episode 104: The Secret to Cybersecurity with Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Scott Augenbaum
May 15, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBCOVID fraud warnings, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre's suspicious email reporting service, Dubai’s police deal with COVID fraud, Microsoft tracks ransomware groups, a fake FBI special agent starts dating, porn blackmail, counter-drone tech, and the Metropolitan Police force’s virtual police academy highlight our law enforcement round-up followed by a conversation with retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Scott Augenbaum the author of The Secret to Cybersecurity: A Simple Plan to P...
Information Assured Episode 103: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework with Salvador Ortega
April 15, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBOverview Fraud warnings, rapid DNA tests for arrestees, electronic facial identification, London cold case, serial child porn conviction, Russian hacking e-commerce platform takedown, and Chinese espionage highlight our law enforcement round-up followed by a conversation on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework with Salvador Ortega. Salvador and I walk through the NIST Cybersecurity Framework’s significant functions and categories and discuss our operational perspectives emerging under each fu...
Information Assured Episode 102: The Corona Virus is more popular than Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders
March 20, 2020 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBHow do you run your business when everything around you falls apart? The idea of business continuity usually sits on the back burner until the event happens, and this event is here. This episode covers a few February cyber-crimes and then turns to address the Coronavirus outbreak and how Lisa and I work from our central coast of California home during the crisis. The positive news is that we will get through this event. It will change the way we conduct business and manage our workplace t...
Information Assured Episode 101 The FBI 2019 Cybercrime Report and the Ransomware Plague
February 18, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBThe monthly fraud, hacking, threat, technology, and management development recap framed through the lens of 30 years of experience in law enforcement, medicine, oil and gas, high tech, investment banking, and higher education. The FBI received 467,361 cybercrime complaints in 2019 including a detailed account of a case in Dallas Federal Court where the alleged perpetrators targeted corporations and lonely ladies. “... more than $3.5 billion in losses to individual and business victims. Th...