Cyentia Institute Podcast

Explore and download Cyentia Institute’s podcast episodes featuring original, engaging commentary on today’s most relevant research and data analysis topics.

Latest Episode

July 30, 2019

Episode 16: Welcome David / Blackhat 2019

We welcome David Severski to both Cyentia and the podcast and discuss his outlook on security. Then we turn towards Blackhat 2019 where we have five events we are participating in! Find a full list of…

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Recent Episodes

June 12, 2019

Episode 15: Behind the 2019 Verizon DBIR

Jay and Wade are joined by Alex Pinto, Dave Hylender, Gabriel Basset and Suzanne Widup, the authors behind the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

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May 16, 2019

Episode 14: Vendor-Driven Research

Jay, Wade and Ben talk vendor-driven research, exploring alternatives and beginning the discussion on what makes a good research publication (it'll be a longer discussion than this podcast!)

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April 16, 2019

Episode 13: Welcome Ben

Ben Edwards recently joined Cyentia, and joins Jay and Wade on his first podcast. They talk about research for RiskRecon briefly discuss Ternary plots and hierarchical models (the research will be out…

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January 2, 2019

Episode 12: Dr. Andrew Coburn

Dr. Andrew Coburn join Jay and Wade to talk about catastrophe modeling in security and his book “Solving Cyber Security: Protecting Your Company and Society”.

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November 26, 2018

Episode 11: Cyber Balance Sheet with Ben and Erik

Wade and Jay are joined by Ben Krutzen and Erik Schneider from KPMG to discuss risk quantification and communication. Discussion is based around the Cyber Balance Sheet (https://go.focal-point.com/c…

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November 7, 2018

Episode 10: Veracode SOSS Vol 9

Chris Eng joins Wade and Jay to talk about the Veracode State of Software Security Volume 9 (http://veracode.com/soss). The trio cover DevSecOps and how Survival Analysis helps us to understand secure…

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May 21, 2018

Episode 9: Phil Roth

Wade and Jay are joined by Phil Roth, Senior Data Scientist at Endgame. We talk about machine learning in security and the new malware benchmark data Phil released called EMBER (https://github.com/end…

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March 12, 2018

Episode 8: Jon Laux

Episode 8 feature Jon Laux from Aon Benfield discussing Cyber Insurance, it's roots and direction and ends with a very special musical interlude from our guest!

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November 20, 2017

Episode 7: Christos Mitas

Jay and Wade talk cyber insurance models with Christos Mitas, Vice President, Model Development at RMS (www.rms.com). Risk communication, uncertainty and validation of model development and data quality…

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November 15, 2017

Episode 6: Gautam Aggarwal

Wade is joined by Gautam Aggarwal who is Head of Products and Chief Marketing Officer with NSS Labs and they discuss the challenges and successes of measuring control effectiveness.

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Cyentia Institute is a Virginia-based cybersecurity research services firm. We deliver high-integrity, high-quality, data-driven research which provides security companies with meaningful marketing content to build mindshare, drive sales, and attain greater visibility in competitive markets. In doing so, we seek to advance cybersecurity knowledge and practice for the community at large. In addition, we curate and publish a library of cybersecurity research and reporting which serves as a vital reference for security decision makers and practitioners worldwide.