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Inside the Media Mind of Stew Magnuson: National Defense Magazine

On this week’s episode of Inside the Media Minds, we welcome Stew Magnuson, Editor in Chief of National Defense Magazine. In July the magazine will be celebrating its 100 year anniversary and as you can imagine, the magazine has witnessed a monumental cyber evolution since starting in 1920.  When he began working at the magazine […]

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Inside the Media Minds of Jacob and Dayton: DCrypted Podcast

Welcome to our first episode of 2020! On this week’s episode of Inside the Media Minds, we meet with Jacob Biesiada and Dayton Williams, co-hosts and creators of DCrypted Cybersecurity Podcast. We first met Jacob and Dayton at the October CYBERTACOS event where they were scoping out the cybersecurity crowd for their next guest.  The […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Benjamin Freed: The Breadth and Depth of Ransomware Attacks

On this week’s episode of Inside the Media Minds, we meet with Benjamin Freed, Technology Editor at StateScoop. From the beginning of his career as a freelance journalist covering arts, to becoming fully immersed in the cybersecurity space, Ben has developed a passion for uncovering the latest and greatest threats across the country.  Recently, Ben […]

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RSA Conference – Don’t Get Buried Under The Noise

W2 Communications has been embedded in the cybersecurity world since our inception — launching, branding and elevating clients since 2003. To quote an insurance company ad: “We’ve seen a thing or two.” And, this time of year, when most industries are focused on the holiday season, end of year sales and planning for next year, […]

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Inside the Media Minds Special Edition: The JEDI Contract – A Roundtable Discussion with Ross Wilkers, Frank Konkel and Carten Cordell

On this week’s episode of Inside the Media Minds, we host a roundtable discussion with Ross Wilkers of Washington Technology, Frank Konkel of Nextgov and Carten Cordell of the Washington Business Journal to discuss the ongoing saga of the JEDI Contract. All three reporters have covered the JEDI contract from a different lens and followed […]

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Inside the Media Minds of Bob Ackerman, Kimberly Underwood & George Seffers: A Roundtable Discussion

On this week’s very special episode of Inside the Media Minds, we visited the AFCEA office to interview three members of the SIGNAL Magazine team: Editor in Chief, Bob Ackerman,  Senior Editor, Kimberly Underwood and Executive Editor & Director of Content Development, George Seffers.  These three gave us some terrific insight into SIGNAL and a  […]

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AI, Policy and Chips in Our Brains?!

On September 17, Politico hosted its second Summit on policy around Artificial Intelligence. The significance of the topic was evidenced by the growth of the conference, from last year’s inaugural session which ran 3 hours and enjoyed a modest audience to a full day event boasting a standing-room-only crowd at the Newseum. AI is a […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Hilary Tuttle: Black Hat Edition

On our final Black Hat special episode of Inside the Media Minds, we meet with Hilary Tuttle, Senior Editor of Risk Management Magazine.  With a background in journalism, Hilary stumbled into the realm of cyber risk six years ago and developed a passion ever since. According to her, it’s “a fun rabbit hole to have […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Dan Raywood: Black Hat Edition

On this week’s Black Hat special episode of Inside the Media Minds, we speak with Dan Raywood, contributing editor of Infosecurity Magazine. Coming up on 20 years in journalism, and specifically covering the IT security space since 2008, Dan has witnessed an incredible amount of evolution in cybersecurity. Dan does his best to stay informed and […]

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Inside the Media Mind of Byron Acohido: Black Hat Edition

On this week’s episode of Inside the Media Minds we meet with Byron Acohido, Pulitzer-winning journalist, Founder and Executive Director of The Last Watchdog.  According to Byron, issues within the cybersecurity realm today are “richer than ever,” leaving no shortage of interesting stories to tell. When he started “The Last Watchdog,” he did so just […]