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
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The Cyberlaw Podcast — News Roundup
Posted in China, European Union, International, Privacy RegulationIn episode 212 of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker is at RSA, and Brian Egan, Maury Shenk, and Pete Jeydel of Steptoe are joined by David Kris and Nate Jones of Culper Partners LLC to cover the good, the bad and the ugly of the week that was. UK cyber issues: Brian, Maury, David and Nate… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Curtis Dukes and Tony Sager
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Security Programs & PoliciesEpisode 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Security Programs & PoliciesIn 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy RegulationOur 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Security Programs & PoliciesVlad’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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesWe 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
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy RegulationWe 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesEpisode 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyEpisode 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
Posted in Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyRansomware 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
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyOur 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
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesJust 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
Posted in Blockchain, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyIn 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
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesIt’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
Posted in Blockchain, China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & Policies, Virtual CurrencyDoing 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
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesLive 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesWhat 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesThe 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesNext 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesOur 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
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesIf 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
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with John Lynch
Posted in Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, Data Breach, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesBack for a rematch, John Lynch and I return to the “hackback” debate in episode 97, with Jim Lewis of CSIS providing color commentary. John Lynch is the head of the Justice Department’s computer crime section. We find more common ground than might be expected but plenty of conflict as well. I suggest that Sheriff… Continue Reading
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Nick Weaver
Posted in China, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar, International, Privacy Regulation, Security Programs & PoliciesWe’re back from hiatus with a boatload of news and a cautiously libertarian technologist guest in Nick Weaver of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. To start Episode 95 of the podcast, Michael Vatis and I plumb the meaning of the Cyber Security Act’s passage. The big news? Apparently Santa is real, state laws… Continue Reading