How government and Industry can raise the cost of cybercrime
Sophos CEO Joe Levy and Director of Government Partnerships Alex Rose join Safe Mode from Washington, D.C. to discuss what meaningful public-private cybersecurity partnership looks like right now—movi...
30 Huhti 43min
Proving Identity in the age of agents
As AI makes deepfakes and voice cloning more convincing, attackers are shifting away from traditional vulnerabilities and focusing on identity as the easiest path to account takeover and fraud. In thi...
23 Huhti 27min
The federal government's most underrated cybersecurity tool
In this episode of Safe Mode, we sit down with Philip George, Executive Technical Strategist at Merlin Group to talk about the real challenges federal agencies face at the intersection of cybersecurit...
16 Huhti 44min
What does industry think of the White House's cybersecurity strategy?
Bob Ackerman (founder of Allegis Cyber and a partner at DataTribe) joins Safe Mode to talk about where the new national cybersecurity strategy is trying to push the industry—especially around more ope...
10 Huhti 30min
When iPhone exploits turn into commodities
A sophisticated iPhone exploit kit known as DarkSword has escaped the world of targeted espionage and landed in public view—leaked on GitHub in a form that researchers say is trivial to repurpose and ...
26 Maalis 35min
Behind the scenes of the Socksescort takedown
In this episode, we sit down with Chris Formosa to break down the Socksescort disruption—a proxy botnet powered by AVRecon that compromised edge devices at scale. Chris walks us through why the operat...
19 Maalis 34min
What comes next for Trump's cybersecurity plan?
On this episode of Safe Mode, Greg Otto and Tim Starks look past the headline release of President Trump’s new cyber strategy and focus on what comes next: the promised follow-on guidance, the rollout...
12 Maalis 28min
A plea to improve quantum security in the federal government
In this episode, we sit down with Gharun Lacy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Cyber and Technology Security Directorate at the U.S. Department of State, who issues a stark warning: no organization...
5 Maalis 17min
