1: Modernized Cyber Conflicts Explained (with Rob Knake, former White House Director of Cybersecurity)

07/12/19 • 43 min

Join Defendify Co-Founder Rob Simopoulos with the inaugural episode of Defendify's podcast, The Hilt, where he speaks with Rob Knake, who served as Director for Cybersecurity Policy at the National Security Council. In this role, Knake was responsible for the development of Presidential policy on cybersecurity, and built and managed federal processes for cyber incident response and vulnerability management.

Rob Knake's extensive work focuses on cyber conflict, internet governance, and public-private partnerships. In this episode, he discusses his extraordinary background and experience as a cybersecurity professional on the front lines.

Knake now serves as Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Research Scientist at Northeastern University. He is also co-author (with Richard Clarke) of "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It" and has an exciting new book set to release mid-July, 2019, titled "The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats."

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2: The Intersection of Privacy & Cybersecurity (with Ginny Lee - Privacy Specialist, Attorney, and Thought Leader)

Join Defendify Co-Founder Rob Simopoulos on The Hilt! In this episode, Rob speaks with Ginny Lee, Founder and Managing Partner of a boutique privacy law firm and former privacy leader at several Fortune 500 companies, discussing the ways privacy and cybersecurity intersect and what that means for Small Business.
Previously, Ginny was Head of Global Data Privacy and Director, Senior Corporate Counsel at ServiceNow and before that, Director – Global Privacy at Starbucks. At both companies, she was responsible for the establishment of global privacy programs. She was also Sr. Attorney – Privacy/Security at Intel Corporation, responsible for providing legal guidance on privacy and security matters, especially as they relate to "Privacy By Design". Prior to Intel, Ginny was also the Director of Platform and Product Privacy at Yahoo!.
Ginny serves on the IAPP Privacy Bar Section Advisory Board and has worked on policy, regulatory and compliance issues for the Network Advertising Initiative, a self-regulatory association for the third-party advertising industry. She's also held positions in engineering, product management and technical support, and, is a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, /G, IT) and Manager (CIPM) in addition to being a registered patent attorney.