Tim Starks

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Our guest is Tim Starks, senior reporter at CyberScoop, sharing government leaders' outlook for cybersecurity and AI from the Billington Cybersecurity Summit.

And finding Bigfoot in the neural network.

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The Biden administration just opened their arms to regulation, which was a pretty big change from what we'd seen in prior administrations, and this administration has, has co- has kind of s- scaled back in that direction.

They've cut the number of people who are working on policy questions, so it's not, uh, surprising to me that that would be some of the response because I think, um, again, while you can say this administration has done some different things on policy, some of what they've done has been to do less by design.

Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop.

Tim, thanks so much for joining us.

We'll leave that there, right? There's been a frantic response to that incident.

Even just yesterday, the announcement from the governor of Texas and the White House on Watershed 250, some great reporting by Tim Starks and CyberScoop on that, by the way.

The water sector is reacting to that incident, water ISAC leading the way.

Water ISAC, again, last week, similar to what we were saying on this podcast, Dave, encouraging members, hey, shields up.

We got your Monday business briefing.

Our guest is Tim Starks from Cyberscoop discussing a controversial retail security bill and getting local with Nigerian scammers.

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Utah-based Nexus IT acquired Austin's Loyal IT, while TalkTalk Business is merging with MSSP ARO to create a UK technology group with roughly six hundred fifty employees and seventy thousand organizational customers.

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