It has been an extremely difficult couple of days in the technology world and really in the world writ large

We are in the midst of a global IT outage right now affecting flights businesses, health care providers, 911 services.

A lot of businesses around the world are affected including Microsoft.

A lot of those blue screens of death, right?

The problem was not a cyber attack, but rather a bad update from the crowd strike

cybersecurity firm that crippled Windows machines around the world. But there are

larger issues at play here. Our guest on this week's show,

Eric Moore of the online Master of Science Program and Cybersecurity

leadership at Seattle University, says cybersecurity companies are facing faster and more

complex threats due to factors including AI and geopolitical and financial

forces requiring quicker responses. Current testing and deployment processes need to be overhauled,

but long term he's optimistic about where the field and the world are headed. Really buying into that cyber society will get us new

cures like CRISPR and things like that where people are collaborating all over the

planet. It will help us protect the environment as sensors all over the world pull

things together so that we have active items we can do to solve environmental problems.

It will also help us one day I hope get to the stars. But we will not do that without all

of the cyber infrastructure that we've talked about today without living through an

incident like the moment we just did.

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