We interviewed Rebekah Skeete, CEO/Executive Director of BlackGirlsHack, about centering diversity, equity, and inclusion in cybersecurity careers, its programs in cloud security, ethical hacking, and digital forensics, and how they’re tackling funding challenges in today’s tough landscape. Please introduce BlackGirlsHack and explain how your work is helping to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive … Read More

We interviewed Al Smith from The Tor Project—a nonprofit behind one of the world’s most important privacy tools. In this interview, Tor shares how its work protects human rights defenders, journalists, and everyday users in high-risk environments, and why sustaining public-interest infrastructure like Tor is essential to the health of the Internet itself. Tor is … Read More

We interviewed Yael Grauer, Program Manager, Cybersecurity Research, of Consumer Reports about securing the digital marketplace, its Security Planner tool to help consumers safeguard their information, growing concern over digital privacy, funding challenges, and how efforts like Common Good Cyber can help make the Internet more secure for everyone. Please introduce Consumer Reports and explain … Read More

We interviewed Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director of the National Cybersecurity Alliance, about educating the public on the safe use of technology, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, scaling that work to underfunded communities, and how efforts like Common Good Cyber can help support nonprofits doing this critical work.  Can you introduce the National Cybersecurity Alliance and share how … Read More

The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA)‘s President and CEO, Michael Daniel, member of the Common Good Cyber Ecosystem Committee, discusses challenges in sharing threat intelligence, CTA’s milestones as an outstanding convener, the importance of measuring impact, and views on funding for under-resourced organizations to ensure sustainability.  CTA brings together cybersecurity companies to share threat intelligence. What … Read More

We interviewed Leslie Z. Anderson, Chief Strategist for Cyber at MITRE, about its mission to to advance US national security in new ways and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, the sustainability issues they face, and how efforts like Common Good Cyber can help. Can you introduce MITRE and explain what projects like … Read More

We interviewed Arastoo Taslim, Director of Business Operations for CyberGreen, about its mission to establish a science of Cyber Public Health dedicated to making the internet safer and more resilient for all, the sustainability issues they face, and how efforts like Common Good Cyber can help. Can you introduce CyberGreen and explain how your work … Read More

We interviewed the Eastern Partnership Digital Security Practitioners Network about its mission to grow local digital security capacity to protect civil society organizations, independent media, and human rights defenders facing sophisticated cyber threats, and how efforts like Common Good Cyber can avoid losing specialized capacity built over a decade. Can you introduce the Eastern Partnership … Read More

We interviewed Nicolas Sera-Leyva, Co-executive Director of the Center for Digital Resilience, to learn more about its mission, how it is addressing digital inequalities by partnering with local communities, and how efforts like Common Good Cyber can solve some of the persistent barriers civil society organizations face.  Can you introduce the Center for Digital Resilience … Read More

We interviewed Jon Brewer, COO of the DISARM Foundation, for our Common Good Cyber interview series about his experience of co-founding the organization. Its DISARM Framework supports efforts to capture and make sense of information influence operations. Can you explain the mission of the DISARM Foundation and its framework for analysing and mitigating attack vectors? … Read More