Webinars

From billion-dollar cyber heists to global financial crime rings and crypto-gangsters – Geoff White has covered it all. His next book, Rinsed, will reveal technology’s impact on the world of money laundering. It springs from his work on the hit podcast and book The Lazarus Heist, which explored North Korea’s computer hacking campaign. As an author, speaker, investigative journalist and podcast creator, his work’s been featured by BBC News, Audible, Sky News, The Sunday Times and many more. He has given keynote talks for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Microsoft, HSBC, Mastercard, Atos, Orange and Bank of America.

Jon DiMaggio is the chief security strategist at Analyst1 and has over 16 years of experience hunting, researching, and writing about advanced cyber threats. In 2022, Jon’s authored his first book, “The Art of Cyberwarfare,” which earned him the prestigious SANS Difference Makers Award, solidifying his status as a thought leader in the industry. The following year, SANs recognized his work once again, awarding his most notable research, “The Ransomware Diaries,” detailing his operation to infiltrate the real-world humans behind the LockBit criminal operation. Jon’s other notable achievements include his appearance on 60 Minutes, where he discussed his undercover operations infiltrating some of the world top ransomware gangs. Jon’s research has been featured in The New York Times, Wired, Bloomberg, Fox, CNN, Reuters, and other news organizations.

Ms. Sezaneh Seymour is the Vice President and Head of Regulatory Risk and Policy at Coalition – a leading provider of innovative cyber insurance and security services. For nearly twenty years, Sezaneh has held various domestic and foreign policy roles at the nexus of national security, emerging technology, sustainability, and trade. She served as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President where she was responsible for negotiating and enforcing trade agreements. She is the former Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology on the National Security Council. Prior to these roles, she served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and at the U.S. Department of State. She is a graduate of the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School and earned her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech where she remains on faculty.

Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED who has covered hacking, cybersecurity and surveillance for 17 years. He’s the author of the new book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and the 2019 book Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers. The two books and excerpts from them published in WIRED have won numerous awards including two Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished business and financial reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Cornelius Ryan Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club. His 2012 book, This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists and Cypherpunks Aim to Free the World’s Information, was named one of the top ten “greatest tech books of all time” by The Verge.

Daryna is a reporter for Recorded Future News based in Ukraine. She writes about cyberattacks and cyber policy in Eastern Europe and the state of the cyberwar between Ukraine and Russia. She previously worked as a tech reporter for Forbes Ukraine. Her work has also been published in The Kyiv Independent, The Kyiv Post, and Sifted.

Ryan Chapman is the author of SANS Forensics FOR528: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion along with a Certified Instructor for SANS. In his day job, he functions as a consultant for threat hunting and incident response. Ryan often presents at conferences, including running workshops the last 4 years running at DefCon. In his free time he spends time with his daughter watching anime, plays plenty of Street Fighter, and enjoys playing retro video games.

Our first guest on the Cyber Insider in 2024 is Azim Khodjibaev. Azim is a senior intelligence analyst with Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence and Interdiction team. With over a decade in intelligence analysis experience, Azim has focused on Russian APT and cybercrime activity for the past eight years. He has worked on many ransomware-related projects and has experience with direct adversary engagement.

This month’s guest of the Cyber Insider is Allan Liska, Senior Security Architect and Ransomware Specialist, Recorded Future. With more than 20 years of experience in ransomware and information security, Allan Liska has improved countless organizations’ security posture using more effective intelligence. Liska provides ransomware-related counsel and key recommendations to major global corporations and government agencies, sitting on national ransomware task forces and speaking at global conferences. Liska has worked as both a security practitioner and an ethical hacker at Symantec, iSIGHT Partners, FireEye, and Recorded Future. Regularly cited in The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The New York Times, and NBC News, he is a leading voice in ransomware and intelligence security. Liska has authored numerous books including “The Practice of Network Security”, “Building an Intelligence-Led Security Program”, “Securing NTP: A Quickstart Guide”, “Ransomware: Defending Against Digital Extortion”. “DNS Security: Defending the Domain Name System” and “Ransomware: Understand.Prevent.Recover.” He is also the creator of the first ransomware-themed comic book, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

Ian L. Paterson is an entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in leading and commercializing technology companies. Paterson has raised millions of dollars in private and public financing, completed international M&A transactions, and is co-inventor of 3 patents on digital identity and data analytics. As CEO of Plurilock, Paterson successfully built and grew Plurilock, leading to its successful public listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture.
Previously Paterson served as founder and CEO of data monetization platform Exapik (acquired), and as Director of Insights for Terapeak (acquired), a venture-backed analytics firm. Paterson is a regular speaker, media commentator, and active angel investor.

David Shipley is a recognized global expert in cybersecurity, regularly speaking at public and private events around the world and frequently appears in national and regional media to address cybersecurity stories and topics. David co-founded Beauceron Security in 2016 with an innovative approach to cybersecurity awareness and risk management which empowers everyone within an organization to know more, and care more, about their key role in protecting against cyber-attacks. Beauceron Security now serves more than 700 clients across North America, Europe, and Africa with 650,000+ end-users. He continues to lead the company as CEO. Prior to co-founding Beauceron Security, David was the security lead for the University of New Brunswick and developed its incident response, threat intelligence and awareness practice. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Information and Communications Studies, as well as a Master of Business Administration, from the University of New Brunswick. In 2023, David was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Platinum Medal by the province of New Brunswick for his service in the Canadian Forces, work in cybersecurity, and for co-founding Beauceron Security. David is a former journalist and a Canadian Forces veteran.

As the former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Datto, Ryan built and piloted Datto’s industry leading Information Security program prior to the 2023 acquisition of the company. Currently, Ryan is advising IT Channel cybersecurity startups and is the Partner and Director of Content for Right of Boom, a cybersecurity education company purpose built for MSPs. Ryan loves sharing his knowledge and experiences of all things cybersecurity almost as much as he loves his family, fishing and surfing.

Sherrod DeGrippo is Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy at Microsoft. She was selected as Cybersecurity woman of the year in 2022 and Cybersecurity PR Spokesperson of the year for 2021. Previously, she was VP of Threat Research and Detection at Proofpoint, where she led a global team of threat researchers, malware reverse engineers and threat intelligence analysts. Her career in cybersecurity spans 19 years with prior roles including leading Red Team Services at Nexum, senior solutions engineer for Symantec, senior security consultant for Secureworks, and senior network security analyst for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). She is a frequently cited threat intelligence expert in media including televised appearances on the BBC news, and commentary in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Times, and more. Having presented at Black Hat, RSA conference, RMISC, BrunchCon, and others, Sherrod is a well known public speaker. In her personal time, Sherrod spends time with her rescue dog Boris Karloff.

In this month’s release of the Cyber Insider webinar series we welcome Jackie Burns Koven. Jackie is the Head of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Chainalysis, leading the team tracking cybercriminals and nation state actors stealing, scamming, and extorting cryptocurrency. She is also a member of the Ransomware Task Force, which unites key stakeholders across industry, government, and civil society to innovate new solutions countering the ransomware threat. Prior to joining Chainalysis, she served in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Our guest this month is Dmitry Smilyanets, the Director of Product Management at threat intel company Recorded Future. Prior to that Dmitry was a Russia-based hacker who was indicted and extradited to the United States for his role in a cybercrime scheme – he was the manager of the largest hacking group ever prosecuted in the United States. Having been both a black hat and a white hat, he has fascinating perspectives which we uncover during this month’s release of the Cyber Insider.

In our latest the Cyber Insider webinar release, we’re excited to host Katie Moussouris. Katie is the founder and CEO of Luta Security, a company that helps organizations implement and manage bug bounty programs. Prior to starting Luta Security, Katie worked with companies including ATstake, Symantec, and HackerOne. She’s a hacker, an advocate for gender and economic equality, a cybersecurity fellow at New America and the National Security Institute, and an advisor to the US government.

Our guest in this month’s release of the Cyber Insider webinar series is Meredith Griffanti, the Global Head of Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Communications at FTI Consulting. Ms. Griffanti has worked on some of the most high-profile and highly sensitive data breaches around the world and has successfully navigated responses to incidents such as business email compromise, phishing and spear phishing, DDoS, credential stuffing, nation-state, critical infrastructure and major, double-extortion ransomware attacks.

This month’s special guest is Professor Ciaran Martin, CB. A Professor of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, as well as a managing director at Paladin Capital and the holder of several other advisory roles in private sector cyber security. He writes and speaks frequently on cyber security in major outlets across the world, and was named on of the most influential people in European technology by Politico in 2022. From 2014 until 2020 he set up and then led the United Kingdom’s world-leading National Cyber Security Centre, within the intelligence agency GCHQ on whose board he sat. This was the culmination of a 23 year career in UK public service which saw him serve in senior roles in national security, constitutional and economic policy.

This month’s guest in our monthly Emsisoft The Cyber Insider webinar series is John Hammond, a cybersecurity researcher, educator and content creator. As part of the Threat Operations team at Huntress, John spends his days analyzing malware and making hackers earn their access.

Emsisoft’s monthly webinar series in which we interview cybersecurity experts with diverse expertise and backgrounds. Our first guest – cybersecurity analyst and author of The Art of Cyberwarfare, Jon DiMaggio.