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Welcome to Spycast.

My name is Dr. Andrew Hammond, a historian and curator here at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC.

Every week, Spycast explores a world of intelligence and espionage by bringing you in-depth conversations, spies, spy masters, intelligence officers and authors.

We explore the stories, secrets, tradecraft and technology of a world that looms beneath the surface of everyday life.

Welcome to this week's episode of Spycast.

This week's guest is Dave Bittner from The CyberWire.

Have you ever felt like cyber is changing so quickly that it is difficult to keep up?

This week's guest hosts no less than 10 podcasts a week on the topic.

From The CyberWire Daily to Hacking Humans and from career notes to recorded future, Dave Bittner is what you might call busy.

Dave and Andrew taught the Silicon Valley of these state-affiliated hackers, organized crime and staying cyber safe because it's a jungle out there, people.

Well, thanks so much for taking the time to speak to me.

It's long overdue and I've really been looking forward to it, not least because I feel like I've bared quite a bit of my soul to you with our various interviews Dave, so I'm looking forward to you bearing some of yours.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to joining you. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. So I wonder if you could just start off by telling us what you're up to at the moment.

I know that you host the number of podcasts. Can you tell our Spycast listeners about the kind of things that you're involved in at the moment with CyberWire?

I'd say that the primary thing that I do here at CyberWire is host our daily podcast, which is a daily news briefing.

It's about 20 minutes every day Monday through Friday, which we like to describe as the essential news that folks who are cyber security professionals or even enthusiasts need to know to stay up to date on the latest goings on in cyber security.

And that's a combination of a newscast and then we have usually a couple of interviews as well on that show.

So that's Monday through Friday. I do a couple of other shows. I do a weekly show called Hacking Humans, which is focused on social engineering.

I do another weekly show called caveat, which is co-hosted with Ben Yellen from the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security.

That's focused on lawn policy. We do a show called Research Saturday where I talk to a different researcher every weekend to get the details on whatever cyber security research they're doing.

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