Deb Radcliff



Deb Radcliff

Host, Cy Beat Podcast

                       

Deb Radcliff is an award-winning journalist and author of the popular Breaking Backbones hacker trilogy. She made cybercrime her beat starting in 1996 after she finished conducting research for Jon Littman’s best-selling book, “The Fugitive Game,” about infamous hacker, Kevin Mitnick. In the early days, there were no cybercops, so Radcliff embedded with gray and white hat hackers and cyber vigilantes who were trying to warn the world of what was coming.

When her first article, Barbarians at the Firewall, published in Byte Magazine in 1996, the new FBI cybercrime unit asked to use it for training purposes. She’s spoken on national radio, hacker conferences, and at West Point (her crowning career moment), as well as many podcasts and virtual events.

In 2005, she stood up an analyst program for SANS Institute which she directed until returning to her independent analyst roots in 2020. Her cyber thriller series emulates the many characters she’s met in her career while also informing the world about the dangers and overreach of technology. Her books are available at Amazon and all major book outlets.


About The Cy Beat Podcast

A podcast hosted by Deb Radcliff

Looking Forward by Looking Back

In the early days, colorful gray hat hackers proved that any technology could be hacked. As the harbingers of things to come, they took a lot of flak for it. But their predictions were spot on, and with each new technology we adopt, there will be more danger to come. In this series, we use the lessons of the past and present to prepare for the future. It is named the Cy Beat because Cy is the lead character in Deb’s cyber thriller book, which depicts a dystopian world in which GlobeCom takes over the world through human chip implants and freedom hackers mount a coordinated attack to break GlobeCom’s backbones.

Tune in for exciting discussion and storytelling as Deb interviews hackers, coders, intelligence experts, agents, officers, cyber security pros, and other interesting harbingers, heroes and warriors about how we got here and what we need to do about it.