In this episode of Security Nation, Cub Llewellyn-Davies of the National Cyber Security Centre discusses the recent launch of "Cyber Aware," a national campaign that gives six actionable things people can do to protect themselves online.
Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod talks about the recent widespread attack campaign involving a backdoored component of the SolarWinds Orion platform.
Appears on This Episode
Jen Ellis is the vice president of community and public affairs at Rapid7. Jen’s primary focus is on creating positive social change to advance security for all. She believes that it is critical to build productive collaboration between those in the security community and those operating outside it, and to this end, she works extensively with security researchers, technology providers, operators, and influencers, and various government entities to help them understand and address cybersecurity challenges. She believes effective collaboration is our only path forward to reducing cyber attacks and protecting consumers and businesses. She has testified before Congress and spoken at a number of security industry events including SXSW, RSA, Derbycon, Shmoocon, SOURCE, UNITED, and various BSides.
Tod Beardsley is the director of research at Rapid7. He has over 20 years of hands-on security experience, stretching from in-band telephony switching to modern IoT implementations. He has held IT Ops and IT Security positions in large organizations such as 3Com, Dell, and Westinghouse, as both an offensive and defensive practitioner. Today, Tod directs the myriad security research programs and initiatives at Rapid7. He can be uniquely identified at https://keybase.io/todb.
Cub Llewelyn-Davies is the Public Engagement Lead at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. The NCSC’s mission is to make the UK the safest place to live and work online. Cub is responsible for working with technology companies and online account providers to reduce the security burden on consumers. Simultaneously, the NCSC are working to raise consumer awareness of the action they can take to improve their online security, through their Cyber Aware Campaign.
About the Security Nation Podcast
Security Nation is a podcast dedicated to celebrating the champions in the cybersecurity community who are advancing security in their own ways. We also cover the biggest events in security that you should know about. In each episode, host Jen Ellis (@infosecjen) sits down with a guest so they can share their stories, what worked, what didn’t, and what you can learn from their initiative so maybe we can inspire you to do something new, while Tod Beardsley breaks down the biggest security headlines of the week.