The Good Hacker: Hacking Businesses before Criminals Do
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The headlines tell us cyberattacks are a big, consistent threat to business data – and ours. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell takes on this topic with Tim Harford, host of Cautionary Tales, and Stephanie “Snow” Carruthers, Chief People Hacker for X-Force, IBM. Snow and her team are finding creative solutions to test their clients’ security, including hacking into their systems before criminal hackers do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome to Smart Talks with IBM, a podcast from Pushkin Industries, I Heart |
| 0:09.6 | Radio and IBM. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Malcolm Grapo. |
| 0:13.3 | This season we're talking to new creators, the developers, data scientists, CTOs and other |
| 0:19.3 | visionaries who are creatively applying technology and business to drive change. |
| 0:24.7 | Channeling their knowledge and expertise, they're developing more creative and effective |
| 0:28.4 | solutions, no matter the industry. |
| 0:31.6 | Our guest today is Stephanie Snow Cruthers. |
| 0:34.5 | Snow is a hacker alias, and it's how we'll refer to Stephanie for the rest of this episode. |
| 0:40.0 | Snow is the chief people hacker for X-Force at IBM. |
| 0:44.4 | She gets paid to hack into her clients' businesses before criminal hackers do in order |
| 0:49.1 | to test her clients' information security. |
| 0:52.0 | In today's show you'll hear some of the more creative ways Snow has persuaded people into |
| 0:56.9 | sharing confidential information. |
| 0:59.6 | She also talks about the state of cybersecurity and what businesses need to do to keep their |
| 1:04.8 | data protected. |
| 1:06.6 | Snow spoke with economics journalist Tim Hartford, host of the Pushkin Podcast cautionary |
| 1:11.6 | tales and a long time columnist at the Financial Times where he writes the undercover economist. |
| 1:18.3 | In addition to publishing several books on the topic, Tim is also a BBC broadcaster with |
| 1:23.9 | his show More or Less. |
| 1:26.5 | Okay, let's now get to the interview with Tim and chief people hacker Snow. |
| 1:33.5 | Before you tell me what a chief people hacker is, what is hacking to you? |
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