This month’s entertaining podcast takes place back in-person from a pub in the U.K, with a wide-ranging conversation covering America’s potentially myopic focus on Russia; the Colonial Pipeline hack and ransomware; as well as cryptocurrency and traceability.

A new report reveals that nearly half of businesses are unaware of any potential employee issues prior to a workforce incident, and 87 percent say third-party contractors and freelancers are the cause of the risk.

The surge in demand for intelligence programs and intelligence-oriented global security operations centers (GSOCs) and virtual security operations centers (VSOCs) has not emerged out of thin air. In fact, it has been driven by changing corporate security concerns, which themselves have been shaped by the fears of corporate leaders.

With one-third of working adults in the U.S. admitting to potentially risky behavior at work, employee negligence poses major security concerns for U.S. businesses.

Today, cybersecurity is on all our minds. Every other day, we get news of another cyberattack. As more organizations struggle to keep up with the onslaught of these new threats, many are asking: “What can we do to strengthen our cybersecurity posture?” When we want to quantify it, consider the concept of risk. In its simplest form, the risk associated with a system is the impact of it malfunctioning, multiplied by the likelihood that a malfunction will occur.

Cleveland Ohio’s E Prep and Village Prep School has a system that notifies a parent when a student is absent.

Albert Einstein once observed, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”