
Cyber Content Lead at ReversingLabs. Paul is a reporter, editor and industry analyst with 20 years’ experience covering the cyber security space. He is the founder and editor in chief at The Security Ledger, a cybersecurity news website. His writing about cyber security has appeared in publications including Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, MIT Technology Review, The Economist Intelligence Unit, CIO Magazine, ZDNet and Fortune Small Business. He has appeared on NPR’s Marketplace Tech Report, KPCC AirTalk, Fox News Tech Take, Al Jazeera and The Oprah Show. You can find Paul online on Twitter (@paulfroberts and on LinkedIn).
Modern Risks to the Internet of Things and Software Supply Chains
In this episode of ConversingLabs, host Paul Roberts chats with Thomas Pace, co-founder and CEO of NetRise, about securing both the Internet of Things (IoT) and software supply chains.
Lemons & Liability: What it Means for Software Applications
In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Daniel Woods, a Cybersecurity Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh on the sidelines of the 2023 Black Hat USA conference about his briefing: “Lemons and Liability: Cyber Warranties as an Experiment in Software Regulation.”
Creating the Standard for Supply Chain Risk
In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Robert Martin of MITRE and Cassie Crossley of Schneider Electric about their session at this year’s RSA Conference. They explained how MITRE’s System of Trust can serve as a standard for software supply chain risk. The two also chatted with Paul about the greater issues facing software supply chains today, such as standardization and transparency.
How Do You Trust Open Source Software?
In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Naveen Srinivasan, an OpenSSF Scorecard Maintainer, about his talk at this year’s RSA Conference on how to better trust open source software. In their conversation, Naveen explains how the OpenSSF Scorecard tool can help developers understand the security posture of open source dependencies.
ConversingLabs Cafe: Chris Romeo on the state of application security
In this episode, we interview Chris Romeo, CEO of Kerr Ventures and long-time application security (app sec) practitioner, on the sidelines of RSA Conference 2023. Romeo gives a rundown on the state of app sec and comments on other software threats posed to organizations today. Listen in.
Red Teaming the Indian Government
In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with John Jackson, a senior offensive security consultant about red team exercises he and the security research group Sakura Samurai conducted on web sites and applications belonging to the government of India.
SBOM skeptics and talks about the importance of software supply chain transparency
In this special Café edition of ConversingLabs, host Paul Roberts interviews Joshua Corman, the Vice President of Cyber Safety Strategy at Claroty and the Founder of I Am The Cavalry on the sidelines of the RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco. Josh speaks with Paul about his RSAC track session, The Opposite of Transparency, which takes on skepticism of software bill of materials (SBOMs) and makes an argument for greater transparency around software supply chain risk.
The Rise of Malware Within the Software Supply Chain
In this special edition episode of ConversingLabs, host Paul Roberts interviews ReversingLabs Director of Product Management Charlie Jones on the sidelines of the RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco. Charlie speaks with Paul about his RSAC track session: The Rise of Malware Within the Software Supply Chain.
Contextualizing the National Cybersecurity Strategy
In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Devin Lynch, Director of Supply Chain and Technology Security for the Office of the National Cyber Director, about the National Cybersecurity Strategy released by the White House last month.