Ep. 477: Morgan Wright Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Morgan Wright, an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, identity theft and privacy. His landmark testimony before Congress on Healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information. He has made hundreds of appearances on national news, radio, print and web, and has spoken to audiences around the world. Previously Morgan was a Senior Advisor in the US State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program and Senior Law Enforcement Advisor for the 2012 Republican National Convention. In addition to 18 years in state and local law enforcement, Morgan has developed solutions in defense, justice and intelligence for the largest technology companies in the world.
The topic is cyber security.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Snowden effect
- Milton Friedman and Michael Moore
- Teaching at the NSA
- Manipulating human behavior
- Combining the legal system and mental health system
- Lack of accountability in government
- Government using yesterday's technology
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:16.1 | And without any further delay, on to today's show. |
| 0:19.7 | Thank you. And without any further delay, on to today's show. |
| 0:30.2 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:39.8 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, best-selling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:48.5 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. That's my passion. |
| 0:55.3 | My guest today is Morgan Wright. |
| 1:03.9 | He's an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, identity theft, and privacy. |
| 1:09.2 | That would be everything that all of us worry about using our devices all day long, |
| 1:13.6 | worried that some guy in Nigeria is going to hijack our entire life and screw us over? Morgan brings insights across wide territory inside security. |
| 1:22.7 | I hope you enjoy this conversation with Morgan Wright. |
| 1:35.1 | Music I hope you enjoy this conversation with Morgan Wright. You're a tough guy to prepare for because there's a lot of different directions I can go. |
| 1:40.0 | I mean, seriously. |
| 1:41.3 | I don't know if I want to call it different directions, but there's a lot of layers to your world and a lot of different angles that people might not at first think they're connected, but for me, I look at your world. It all looks connected to me. I relate to a lot of it. And I want to share something with you because I think I was just thinking this is probably the best place for me to start. At least it's something that's really interesting to me. Because you talk about the notion of security and protecting from the |
| 2:05.3 | insider. And I want to give an angle on that that I've seen across my career. I can't tell you, |
| 2:10.9 | I'd say I'm probably up to three or four individuals that were probably decently well-known |
| 2:16.8 | names in my industry that at one time or |
| 2:19.9 | another disguised themselves to try and come at me in some way. They used false identities, |
| 2:26.5 | whatnot. Now, they clearly didn't know much about technology because they didn't realize the |
| 2:30.3 | footprint they were leaving. And I wasn't exactly Mr. Cybersecurity, but it's pretty easy to |
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