This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covel.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

My guest today is Mark Weatherford.

He's an American cybersecurity professional, and he has held some very high positions in both the public and private sector.

He was appointed as the first deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2011 to 2013.

Bottom line, Mark brings a wealth of experience and insight into something that

we all have to worry about in this day and age. All of our vital information, our personal

information, our creative information, our legal information,

anything and everything, from words to pictures to videos, our personal life, our life,

is open to hacking.

Mark gives insights and ideas about how everything is unfolding and steps we can take to try and mitigate the risk.

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Mark Weatherford.

My start for me was receiving one of those AOL discs in 1994, 1995, right?

And then very shortly thereafter, I put up a website.

Very shortly thereafter, I had a, you know, T1 connection servers.

I was running Ethernet cable through a home office.

I kind of had a feel for how things worked.

In terms of that basic setup, though, the basic setup of how information comes into our homes, the server setup, I know for the server setup,

for example, the operating systems, just the basic setup of a data farm. Not a lot has changed in terms of that basic setup since the 1990s, has it? Well, you know, I hadn't thought

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