In this Replay of Screaming in the Cloud, we revisit our inspiring conversation with Jackie Singh. At the time, she had recently served as a senior cybersecurity staffer at the Biden campaign. But her venerated career is considerably more than that alone. Jackie’s time spent in the Army, at the DoD, and eventually at work in the commercial world allows her to bring an adroit sensibility to her work and to this episode. Jackie goes into detail on her time spent at the Biden campaign and the intricacies of working in such highly politicized, and short term, environment. The cyber security threats she faced there were paramount, to downplay it, and have given Jackie a rich and constantly developing perspective on security. That in combination with her career has helped her develop a perspective that she has kindly discussed in detail during this episode! Tune in for the whole story.

(0:00) Intro

(1:16) Backblaze sponsor read

(1:42) Working for the 2020 Biden Campaign

(4:45) The high-stakes world of political information security

(10:08) Breaking down Jackie’s impressive resume

(12:38) Being the target of a far-right tabloid hit piece

(16:24) Contemporary politics, bad faith discourse, and its role in tech

(23:34) Common Fate sponsor read

(24:03) The ethics of reporting InfoSec vulnerabilities

(31:13) Explaining “threat modeling”

(36:49) Where you can find more from Jackie

Jackie Singh is an Information Security professional with more than 20 years of hacking experience, beginning in her preteen. She began her career in the US Army, and deployed to Iraq in 2003. Jackie subsequently spent several years in Iraq in cleared roles for the Department of Defense.

She is now an independent consultant. Her passion extends to evangelizing best practices, writing and research for her blog, tweeting informative content, speaking at conferences, contributing to podcasts, and collaborating with fellow journalists and security professionals.

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