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Episode 243: Tech World Turned Upside Down Down Under

By Stewart Baker on Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International

  In the News Roundup, Nick Weaver and I offer very different assessments of Australia’s controversial encryption bill. Nick’s side of the argument is bolstered by Denise Howell, the original legal podcaster, with 445 weekly episodes of This Week in Law to her credit. Later in the program, I interview Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI), who’s… Continue Reading

Episode 230: Click Here to Kill Everybody

By Stewart Baker on Posted in International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

  We are fully back from our August hiatus, and leading off a series of great interviews, I talk with Bruce Schneier about his new book, Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World. Bruce is an internationally renowned technologist, privacy and security commentator, and someone I respect a lot more… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Curtis Dukes and Tony Sager

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Security Programs & Policies

Episode 154:  What cybersecurity experts tell their Moms about computer security In this week’s episode, we ask two acknowledged NSA cybersecurity experts, Curtis Dukes and Tony Sager, both from the Center for Internet Security, what they tell their family members about how to keep their computers, phones, and doorbells safe from hackers. Joining us for… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast — Interview with John “Four” Flynn, Heather Adkins, and Troels Oerting

By Alan Cohn on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Security Programs & Policies

In this episode, Stewart Baker goes to RSA and interviews the people that everyone at RSA is hoping to sell to – CISOs. In particular, John “Four” Flynn of Uber, Heather Adkins of Google, and Troels Oerting of Barclays Bank. We ask them what trends at RSA give them hope for the future, which make… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Corin Stone

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation

Our guest for episode 148 of the podcast is Corin Stone, the Executive Director of the National Security Agency.  Corin handles some tough questions – should the new team dump PPD-28, how is morale at the agency after the Snowden and Shadowbroker leaks, and will fully separating Cyber Command from NSA mean new turf fights? … Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Matthew Green

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Security Programs & Policies

Vlad’s Botox Fresh off a redeye from Israel, I interview Matthew Green of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute.  Security news from the internet of things grows ever grimmer, we agree, but I get off the bus when Matt and the EFF try to solve the problem with free speech law. In the news roundup,… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Scott Charney

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

We ask Rihanna to sum up the latest US-EU agreement: And that’s when you need me there With you I’ll always share … You can stand under my umbrella RiRi’s got the theory right:  The Umbrella Agreement was supposed to make sure the US and EU would always share law enforcement data.  But when the… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Paul Rosenzweig and Shane Harris

By Stewart Baker on Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy Regulation

We couldn’t resist.  This week’s topic is of course President-elect Trump and what his election could mean for All Things Cyber.  It features noted cybercommentator Paul Rosenzweig and Daily Beast reporter Shane Harris.  In the news, we’re reminded of the old Wall Street saying that bulls and bears can both make money in the market… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Ed Hammersla and Brian White

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

Episode 126 – The podcast goes to the conventions If Vladimir Putin can do it, so can we. This week the podcast dives deep into the US presidential campaign. I of course talk with Maury Shenk about evidence that the Russians are behind “Guccifer 2.0” and the DNC data leak – aided by a Wikileaks… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Angelos Keromytis

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual Currency

Episode 118 digs deep into DARPA’s cybersecurity research program with our guest, Angelos Keromytis, associate professor at Columbia and Program Manager for the Information Innovation Office at DARPA.  Angelos paints a rich picture of a future in which we automate attribution across networks and international boundaries and then fuse bits of attribution data as though… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Dmitri Alperovitch

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual Currency

Ransomware is the new black.  In fact, it’s the new China.  So says our guest for episode 116, Dmitri Alperovitch, the CTO and co-founder of CrowdStrike.  Dmitri explains why ransomware is so attractive financially – and therefore likely to get much worse very fast.  He and I also explore the implications and attribution of the… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with General Hayden

By Stewart Baker on Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual Currency

Our guest for episode 114 is General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and CIA; he also confirms that he personally wrote every word of his fine book, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.   In a sweeping interview, we cover everything from Jim Comey’s performance at the AG’s hospital… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Suzanne Spaulding

By Stewart Baker on Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

Just how sophisticated are the nations planning and carrying out cyberattacks on electric grids?  Very, is the short answer.   Our guest for episode 111, Suzanne Spaulding, DHS’s Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, lays out just how much planning and resources went into the attack on Ukraine’s grid, what it means for… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Perianne Boring

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual Currency

In episode 109, we interview Perianne Boring of the Chamber of Digital Commerce on the regulatory challenges of bitcoin and the blockchain.  In the news roundup, we bring back Apple v. FBI for what we hope will be one last round, as the San Bernardino magistrate voids her All Writs Act motion for mootness and… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Nuala O’Connor

By Stewart Baker on Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

It’s an extended news roundup with plenty of debate between me and Nuala O’Connor, the President and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).  We debate whether and how CDT should pay more attention to Chinese technology abuses and examine the EU ministers’ long list of privacy measures to be rolled back and… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Robin Weisman and Peter Van Valkenburgh

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Blockchain, China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual Currency

Doing our best to avoid turning this into the Applelaw podcast, episode 105 begins with Maury Shenk unpacking the new US-EU Privacy Shield details.  His take: more hassles for companies accused of noncompliance, more detailed privacy disclosures and compliance obligations for most members, and a modicum of pain for the intelligence community, but it’s still… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Jim Lewis

By Stewart Baker on Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

Live from RSA, it’s episode 104, with special guest Jim Lewis, CSIS’s renowned cybersecurity expert and Steptoe’s own Alan Cohn.  We do an extended news roundup before an RSA audience that yields several good questions for the panel.  We had invited Bruce Sewell, Apple’s General Counsel, to participate, but he didn’t show.  So we felt… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Glenn Gerstell

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

What is the most surprising discovery a law firm partner makes when he jumps to the National Security Agency?  I direct that and other questions at Glenn Gerstell, who has just finished six months in the job as General Counsel at the National Security Agency. In the news roundup, we begin, of course, with the… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Triple Entente Beer Summit II

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

The Second Annual Triple Entente Beer Summit again filled the Washington Firehouse loft with an audience at least as knowledgeable as the panel, which consisted of Ben Wittes, Shane Harris, Stewart Baker, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Alan Cohn.  The Triple Entente Beer Summit brings together members of the Lawfare, Rational Security, and the Steptoe Cyberlaw podcasts.

Second Annual Triple Entente Beer Summit

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

Next  Thursday, February 18, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Alan Cohn and I will be speaking at the “2016 Triple Entente Beer Summit” at the Old Engine 12 Firehouse Restaurant (1626 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC).  This will be the second annual live recording of the three podcasts – Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Lawfare Podcast, and Rational… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Amit Ashkenazi

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

Our guest is Amit Ashkenazi, whom I interviewed while in Israel.  Amit is Legal Advisor of The Israel National Cyber Bureau and a former general counsel to Israel’s data protection agency.  Israel is drafting its own cybersecurity act, and we discuss what if anything that country can learn from the US debate – and what… Continue Reading

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Melanie Teplinsky

By Stewart Baker on Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies

If there really is another crypto war in Washington, then this week’s podcast features several war correspondents and at least one victim of PTSD.  Our guest is Melanie Teplinsky, former cybersecurity lawyer at Steptoe, adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, advisory board member for Crowdstrike, and a regular columnist on privacy and… Continue Reading