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#323 Nationstate Cybersecurity, Eric ONeill's Journey

aired Jun 04, 2026 · 31.0m
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Summary

The only real threat to the United States right now, the only real realistic threat is a large-scale cyber attack that denies us the critical infrastructure that makes our lives happy, healthy, and whole. On this episode, Nation State Cybersecurity is Digital Transformation, with Eric O'Neill, former FBI counterintelligence.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of cyber, attack, right, including: And what we've seen in analysis of our systems, our SCADA, which are the networks that move everything from power to water to gas to all the things we need.

Key takeaways
  1. 01And then at the very end of my career, by my choice, I was asked to join and go undercover in the most unique case the FBI had ever run to go undercover in FBI headquarters which w
  2. 02They put him in charge of a section called the Information Assurance Section, which was ostensibly building cybersecurity for the FBI
  3. 03I run a couple of companies, one that does cybersecurity, one that does competitive intelligence
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