Mike McConnell's guest appearances

Mike McConnell

The George Washington University - GW News Center

Brennaman and Jones On Baseball

GW Commencement

Bill Cunningham on 700WLW

Mike McConnell 

Scott Sloan on 700WLW

Eddie & Rocky on 700WLW

Lance McAlister

Ken Broo

Designing Enterprise Platforms

No Password Required

Steve Hawkins

Dan Carroll

Nick Hagglund

Geoff Hobson

Luke Fickell

Cam Miller

David Fulcher

Zac Taylor

Tony Pike

Josh VanMeter

Dan Clasgens

Dave Lapham

Mo Egger

Darrin Horn

OwlTail

Vice Admiral Mike McConnell is the former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the current Executive Director of Cyber Florida. In this two-part episode, VADM McConnell stuns the No Password Required team to silence with stories of his life, which just so happens to resemble a riveting Grisham novel. A few highlights include the reason he refuses to drink cheap beer (or formaldehyde), some iconic moments during his time at the NSA, and more. Ernie, Jack, and Pablo break down the Strengthening Cybersecurity Act and the biggest commitment one can make: cowboy boots. In the Technologue segment, Pablo discusses the importance of cloud vulnerability evolution.

Vice Admiral Mike McConnell - the former NSA director, an elite storyteller whose life resembles a Grisham novel, and an appreciator of formaldehyde-free beer

In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Mike McConnell about a crucial topic in cybersecurity, authentication. McConnell is the former head of the NSA, and an expert in cybersecurity, especially in getting governments and nations to do a better job. He is also one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade called The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff, and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang book puts forth a big history style explanation of cybersecurity. Phil Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of earlyadopter.com, a research publication that focuses on high value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to implement them. He played the role of editor for Phil Quade’s book, which came out in preview at Fortinet’s Accelerate conference in April 2019 and should be published by John Wiley by August. Their conversation covered:* 4:30 - Why authentication is the most important cybersecurity building block* 11:00 - The four dimensions of cybersecurity communications* 22:00 - The need to be proactive in cybersecurity

In a recent edition of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Mike McConnell about a crucial topic in cybersecurity, authentication. McConnell is the former head of the NSA, and an expert in cybersecurity, especially in getting governments and nations to do a better job. He is also one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade called The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff, and the Future of Cybersecurity. The Digital Big Bang book puts forth a big history style explanation of cybersecurity. Phil Quade proposes a framework for creating a truly scientific approach to cybersecurity. Quade’s ambition is to find a way to systematically address many of the problems that have risen up because cybersecurity was not properly incorporated into the design of the internet. Woods is a technology analyst and founder of <a href="http://earlyadopter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">earlyadopter.com</a>, a research publication that focuses on high value use cases and how to create multi-product platforms to implement them. He played the role of editor for Phil Quade’s book, which came out in preview at Fortinet’s Accelerate conference in April 2019 and should be published by John Wiley by August. Their conversation covered:<br><br>* 4:30 - Why authentication is the most important cybersecurity building block<br>* 11:00 - The four dimensions of cybersecurity communications<br>* 22:00 - The need to be proactive in cybersecurity

EAR Podcast with Mike McConnell