Crucial Tech
Unraveling the technology that affects us all but that few of us understand, in a format to give you a basic understanding in the time it takes to drive to and from the grocery store.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 235
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 7.22 -- Canada in the crosshairs for cyber attack
An August report from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said over the next two years, Canada is going to face significant threats from state-supported cyberattacks from Russia, China and North K…
Episode 7.21 - Security is dependent on your access to the internet
Most people don't think about accessibility when it comes to the internet. We think of ramps and braille signs and audiobooks. But physical and developmental issues are much more complex than being a…
Episode 7.20 -- There's a hard wind coming for cybersecurity companies
There are several reports indicating that the gravy train is about to come to a screeching halt in the cybersecurity industry. Fortune 1000 companies are freezing or cutting back on purchasing budget…
Episode 7.19 - ETSI is doing the heavy lifting on AI protections
As generative AI (GAI) platforms become more commonplace, concern over their security issues is growing. As with any digital product, security relies on four arenas. User responsibility, corporate ac…
Episode 7. 18--Ethics in an AI platform? Shut the front door!
One of the major points of contention in the SAG-Aftra/Writers Guild strike is over ownership of the image and voice of performers. Bob Iger said allowing actors to control the use of the image is di…
Episode 7.17 - Generative AI as a defense against cyber attacks
Most of the discussion about generative AI is either focused on how good or bad it is, without ever discussing that it is JUST a tool. We talked with Anurag Gurtu, chief product officer of StrikeRead…
Episode 7.16 -- Perspective: Things are getting better
It's hard to stay positive about the state of the world as long as you listen to everyone complain about it. One truth overrides that for me: Nothing is as bad as it seems nor as good as some people …
Episode 7.15 - VR Headsets: Boondoggle or Breakthrough?
The team at Cyber Protection Magazine doesn't just look at cybersecurity technology. Sometimes we just argue about tech in general. Chief editor Lou Covey and co-founder Patrick Boch have been talkin…
Episode 7.14 -- Taking a step toward stopping AI fraud with Pindrop
Generative AI is BIG business. Maybe too big. In the rush to commercialize and cash in on billions of dollars of investment, Big Tech is letting security slip through the cracks again. Adversaries a…
Episode 7:13 -- How companies can assure customers their data is safe
Telesign is part of a growing security niche market dedicated to providing the infrastructure companies need to keep customer data safe. We talked with company CMO Kristi Melani about how the industr…
Episode 7.12 -- Data for All by John K. Thompson: A book review
This episode is our very first book review. I edited Data for All late last year and had my eyes open to both the massive amount of customer data collected by almost every corporation in the world, a…
Episode 7:11 -- Rohit Ghai on the promise and problem of generative AI
#GenerativeAI was front and center at the RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco. Companies were either promoting it as a means of improving security or warning against it as a security weakness. It wa…
Episode 7.10--What's up with Generative AI
You cannot spit without hitting a news story about generative AI (AKA ChatGPT, Bard, etc.). Some of the news is good, some of it bad, and all of it fairly confusing. Cyber Protection Magazine has b…
Episode 7.9 -- Getting to the bottom of the TikTok issue
TikTok has been in the news for quite a while, but at Cyber Protection Magazine, we are pretty sure we aren't getting the whole story, so we are starting a series of articles and podcasts to get to t…
Episode 7:8 - Advertising isn't what you think
You can't talk in polite company about politics or religion, but everyone can talk about how they hate advertising. And for good reason. I take a break from discussing technology to rant about what t…
Episode 7.7 -- Sextortion is a thing. How big a thing is questionable. But it is scummy
“Sextortion” is a popular theme in media and the news, but it may or may not be a big deal. No one can really come up with a consensus about what it is and how widespread it is. It’s even difficult t…
Episode 7.6 -- Axiado seeks to crowd source a "data lake" for comprehensive cyb ersecurity
Cybersecurity has a healthier and older relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) than pretty much any other industry niche. That’s because the information available on cyber threats is better …
Episode 7.5 - That IRS agent that called you is a criminal
Vishing, short for "voice phishing," is on the rise again. But then, it’s been rising almost exponentially for the past two years. Last summer various organizations were reporting anywhere between …
Episode 7.4 -- Avoid being a big, stationary target
Being a security company that gets hit with a data breach or malware attack is embarrassing, besides the fact that it scares the hell out of your customers. But the current tech fad of "decentralizat…
Episode 7.3 -- All things Data Privacy!
If you're like us, #dataprivacyweek snuck up on you and almost got by before you knew it. But we were still busy. This podcast includes an interview with Brandon Rogers, a senior security engineer at…