Bill Murphy's Redzone Podcast | World Class It Security

Today I had an interesting conversation with Ken Westin. Ken is commonly referred to as ‘The Good Hacker’ and has spent the past 15 years working with law enforcement and research teams to analyze current and emerging threats to determine how our everyday products and gadgets can mitigate these threats. He is regularly reached out to as a subject matter expert in the area of security, privacy and surveillance technologies. In our industry people do a lot of talking about how they want to stop cyber security threat, developing technologies they hope will stop threats, but rarely do you actually come in contact with people actually demonstrating a track record of success thwarting, mitigating and bringing people to justice. This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard What you will learn from this interview: The secret lives of applications that live on our phones. What information are these apps gathering that we’re not aware of and where exactly is that information going? How can this information be used