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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 17min
Is the 'Shields Up' era of CISA over?
One year into the second Trump administration, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is facing what former officials and industry partners describe in stark terms: “decimated,” “...
26 Feb 33min
