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Safe Mode Podcast

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  • How do you win a conflict most Americans can’t see?

    How do you win a conflict most Americans can’t see?
    Jan 22 2026
    Retired Lt. Gen. Charlie “Tuna” Moore, former deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, joins Safe Mode to break down his new paper on “dominating the digital space” and a whole-of-society strategy for defending the United States from cyber aggression. Host Greg Otto digs into why cyber deterrence often fails below the threshold of armed conflict and what a National Cyber Operations Team—integrating private-sector talent under Cyber Command oversight—could look like in practice. Plus, journalist Matt Kapko returns to unpack the messy ethics and incentives behind ransomware negotiations after new guilty pleas spotlight just how unregulated the space can be.
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    36 mins
  • What's powering the 'Steroid Era' of cybercrime?

    What's powering the 'Steroid Era' of cybercrime?
    Jan 15 2026
    Greg sits down with Adam Myers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, and Elia Zaitsev, CTO of CrowdStrike, to discuss why 2025 has been dubbed the "steroid era" for cybercrime due to AI's transformative impact on both attackers and defenders. The conversation reveals alarming statistics—a 442% increase in AI-powered voice-based phishing attacks, average adversary breakout times dropping to just 48 minutes, and 81% of intrusions now operating without any malware at all—while also exploring how adversaries are exploiting vulnerabilities faster and using AI to write exploits. However, the experts explain how AI is also empowering defenders through agentic security systems like CrowdStrike's Charlotte, which achieves 98.6% accuracy in detection triage, fundamentally shifting the economics of the defender's dilemma and offering hope that AI may ultimately benefit defenders more than attackers.
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    52 mins
  • The Access‑Trust Gap: Why security can’t see what work depends on

    The Access‑Trust Gap: Why security can’t see what work depends on
    Dec 18 2025
    In our final episode of 2025, Dave Lewis, global advisory CISO for 1Password, joins Greg Otto to unpack the “access‑trust gap”: the growing mismatch between what employees (and tools like AI assistants) can access at work and what security teams can actually see, verify, and control. Dav explains how this gap shows up in everyday ways—logins that bypass intended controls, personal devices used for work, and teams adopting apps or AI tools faster than IT can govern them—and why that combination creates quiet but serious risk. You’ll hear practical advice on narrowing the gap with stronger identity checks, smarter device trust, cleaner SaaS governance, and simple guardrails for safe AI use that don’t crush productivity.
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    33 mins
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