Charlie mitchell is the author of a new book. Cyber in the age of trump. The unraveling of Americas National security policy. Before we get into the essence, what gives you a background in cybersecurity . I used to be editor of roll call. I worked at inside washington publishers. We do deep dive coverage into policy areas. Cybersecurity kept popping up. This was in 2012 or so. We looked at taking a deeper dive into it. We started investigating this and decided to start a new publication called inside cybersecurity that focused on the development of cyber policy. That wasnt that long ago, but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. I think president george w. Bush was the first one who started getting into cyber as a major policy area. It exploded under the Obama Administration. Cutting across so many issue areas. We decided to create something that would give readers an idea of where the policy arc was going. We covered it through the Second Obama Administration into the
Washington publishers. We do a lot of deep dive coverage into policy areas, including defense and health and energy environment, and cybersecurity kept popping up. This was in 2012 or so. We started looking at taking a deeper dive into it and myself and a colleague started to investigate. We decided to start a new publication called inside cybersecurity that with a focus on the development of cyber policy. That wasnt that long ago but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. I think president george w. Bush was the first one who really started getting into cyber as a major policy area, and then it just exploded under the Obama Administration. It was cutting across a different issue areas that we decided to create something that would give readers an idea of where the policy arc was going. We covered it through the Second Obama Administration into the Trump Administration, and a lot of the book, i wrote an earlier book called hacked which was about cyber during the obama y
We begin on this sunday with the new numbers on covid19 as the 0 weh toll surpasses 800,00 are dividing. The eastern or pacific 202 7488002, those in the ,ountain region 202 7488001 those in the western regions 202 7488000. Passingh toll is now 800,000. In thethe pandemic began past week nine out of 10 countries with the most deaths per capita have been in south and Central America or the caribbean. In the United States, they have her in your sevenday average of about 1000 per day or two deaths , with more than 175,000 deaths recorded to date. Midwest,ee the south, and out west in california and parts of washington state. The political gridlock over this continues with this from House Speaker nancy pelosi. The house and the senate still not in agreement on the steps moving forward. [video clip] daysmorrow will be 100 since we passed the heroes act. It is even more urgent for us to have the values this is not a discussion about just dollars. It is about values and how we value the healt
Guest well, def con is largest tech conference in the world about 30000 people attended in las vegas pre covid and black hat is one of the largest security conferences also held in las vegas and one the university and one is more like the party. One is focused on professional Career Advancement and the other is focused on the sole of hackers and inspiring them. Host when did you found these . Guest def con is pretty old, before the. Com bubble, before 1993 in about three, four years later black cat started in 1997, i believe. The secret was we did no advertising or marketing and they just grew organically. Host what is your background that you were able to do this . Guest well, originally i thought i would be an fbi agent but instead i turned into a hacker and it was a hobby like everything, a hobby that turned into a career and they started throwing a party for some of my friends that were going away on one of the Computer Networks are belong to and instead i ended up inviting everyon
Fcon is the largest hacking conference in the world. Black hat is one of the largest Information Security compasses, also held in las vegas. One is a university, and one is a party. One is focused on your professional career advancement, and the other is focused on being the soul of hackers and inspiring them. When did you found these . Con is pretty old, it was founded about 1993, and about three or four years later, black hat started. They just grew organically. What is your background that you were able to do this . Originally i thought i was going to be an fbi agent. Instead i turned into a hacker. It was a hobby that turned into a career. I started by throwing a party for some of my friends going away on a few networks that belonged to. Knew backeveryone i then who was online. The internet was brandnew. Everybody started showing up. Everything back then was invite only for hackers and i was the to invite everybody publicly. First lets get joseph marx of the Washington Post involve