Behind the Shield

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An In Depth Look Behind the Shield

The Virtual Guardians take you behind the shield and inside the Cyber War Room for a breakdown of the world’s latest cybersecurity events.

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Encore Episodes

BEHIND THE SHIELD PODCAST

Recorded live on 6.15.2023

Behind the Shield June 2023

Hot Topics: US-based white hat researcher, Eaton Zveare, discovers serious flaws in well-known carmaker; Phishing controversy using pay raise as bait; Making progress in the war against cybercrime.
Special Guest Panelist: Graham Cluley of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast.
Extras: Rudolph Araujo, Arista Networks: “IoT, Ransomware, Insider Threats and Your Data: Threat Hunting to the Rescue”.”.

Recorded live on 5.18.2023

Behind the Shield May 2023

Hot Topics: Cisco IOS vulnerabilities and UQAM’s 2023 Report on geopolitical cyber incidents.
Extras: Amber Borgersen, Product Manager for IBM Security’s Threat Management functionalities – the QRadar Suite, discusses “SIEM is dead! Or is it…?”.

Recorded live on 4.19.2023 (in front of the audience at Esterel Resort, Quebec Canada)

Behind the Shield April 2023

Hot Topics: Six arrested in Quebec (closure of a major criminal marketplace on the Dark Web.), Putin’s secret weapon: weaponized ransomware, BYOD habits and how they put their data and organizations at risk.
Extras: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Byron Acohido (lastwatchdog.com): “Network security reborn: Leveraging machine learning, automation to drive legacy defenses into obsolescence.”

Recorded live on 3.16.2023

Behind the Shield March 2023

Hot Topics: Multi Factor Authentication Blind Spots, T-Mobile’s Security Breach (API Attack vector), TikTok ban (US & Canada governments), Return of IceFire Ransomware.
Extras: Branden Williams, VP of IAM Strategy at Ping Identity: “Fostering Collaboration to Build Trust in an Untrustworthy World”.

Recorded live on 2.16.2023

Behind the Shield February 2023

Hot Topics: Mortgage Broker 8Twelve’s leak (where everything went wrong), Reddit cyberattack, AI in the wrong hands, and clickbait article of the month: “Cyber Apocalypse 2023: Is The World Heading For A ‘Catastrophic’ Event”.
Extras: Mike Britton, CISO for Abnormal Security, brings guest customer Joel Godbout, Cybersecurity Manager at PCL Construction, to discuss “Securing Your Cloud Email Platform from Socially-Engineered Attacks”.

Recorded on 1.19.2023

Behind the Shield Year in Review

Hot Topics: Special “Year In Review” featuring 7 panelists talking the most memorable 2022 cybersecurity hacks and events, followed by their wishes and predictions for 2023.

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