Michael Levin. What You Didn’t Know About Cyber Security. Episode 626 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)

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Brad Lea

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Michael Levin is a nationally known cyber security professional who spent over twenty-two years in the U.S. Secret Service protecting Presidents and Heads of State. Michael retired from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - as the Deputy Director of the National Cyber Security Division in Washington DC. He enjoyed a distinguished thirty-year career in public service and law enforcement. Michael also served as the Branch Chief of the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force program in Washington DC, supervising 17 task forces across the country. He worked in the area of computer forensics and cyber-crime investigations for over twenty years. Other assignments included numerous Presidential, Vice Presidential and dignitary protective assignments as well as working at the CIA and NSA as the Secret Service Intelligence Liaison Officer. After this distinguished career and seeing the need, Michael founded the Center for Information Security Awareness – www.CFISA.com The CFISA was created to explore ways to increase cyber security awareness among many audiences, including consumers, employees, businesses and law enforcement. CFISA provides online and on-site cyber security awareness training services to businesses and organizations of all sizes. His passion for securing the nation's critical infrastructure has led to his tireless efforts to make cyber security awareness training best practices interesting, meaningful and relevant at home and at work.

In this episode, Brad and Michael talk about national security and how we protect America’s figures and assets. Learn what you didn’t know about cyber security.

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Learn more about Michael by going to https://www.cfisa.com

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0:00.0	Listen up, or run, for cover.
0:04.5	Oh, no, it's from the people who have access to the people who need it.
0:12.1	The real drop of the Bradley bomb is dropping.
0:23.1	What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode of drop in bombs today in the studio, folks.
0:27.4	I got a real treat for you. Michael Levin. What's happened in Michael happy to be here folks and pull that
0:33.9	microphone close as you can if you will so we can hear you like Barry White. There you go. Nice thunderous voice.
0:40.4	Michael is a nationally known cyber security professional who spent over 20 years in the United States secret service
0:47.4	protecting presidents, heads of state, et cetera.
0:51.4	You retire from the US Department of Homeland Security as the deputy director of the National Cyber Security Division.
0:56.9	So needless to say, you know cyber affairs a little bit. Now when you were when it says that you were deputy director of the
1:07.9	Retire from the US Department of Homeland Security. That's what I want to know. Yeah, that's TSA.
1:12.4	No, it's Homeland Security. TSA is the guys at the airport. Yeah, but they are under Homeland Security, you know.
1:18.4	Correct. Yeah. So were you over them? No. Good. Well, who's over them? Yeah, I'm not sure.
1:24.4	I need to talk to them. Yeah, that's all different. Well, I don't know what the hell.
1:30.4	Who do they think they are? Do they think they're actual like sworn officers of the law or are they?
1:37.9	Because if they are, dude, have you seen some of them? Number one, they're stupid dude. Like almost like can't even believe you hired these people.
1:45.4	Well, you remember before Homeland, what you had at the airport, you had like these rana cops that would, you know, let you go through the metal detectors.
1:56.4	And they didn't, you know, they weren't really trained. And then what happened? I don't think there were metal detectors. Well, I mean, for some airports there were for sure.
2:04.9	Back before back before the TSA, there really wasn't much security at all. Well, yeah, but yeah, so after home, you're saying after 9-11.
2:14.4	That's what TSA was, was, yeah, but there was a period of time where there was, there were a lot of airports that were run with private security.
2:23.4	And so they didn't have any training and experience, but TSA, they've tried to make interrupts, I think.
2:30.9	Well, they need to give some empathy skills. Yeah. I mean, some of them are cool. I mean, I've met a lot of cool ones, but man, are there some real dickhead TSA agents?
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