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Cybersecurity expert Pavlina Pavlova reveals that healthcare breaches aren't happening because of sophisticated attacks, but due to basic security failures like missing multi-factor authentication, delayed patching, and phishing vulnerabilities.

Welcome to the Data Security Decoded podcast by Rubrik Zero Labs. In this episode, our host Caleb Tolin speaks with Pavlina Pavlova, a researcher and cybersecurity advocate focusing on data weaponization and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations. Pavlina defines data weaponization as using data to manipulate, deceive, coerce, or attack someone to inflict harm. Her research investigates why cyber attacks and their impacts often have gendered dimensions, with certain populations experiencing more severe consequences.

Every U.S. administration, dating back to President H.W. Bush has struggled to address the threat of Chinese trade theft. But a growing sense of urgency kicks in as American businesses start hemorrhaging trade secrets and entire product lines start vanishing to Chinese copycats. Just as the Obama Administration is set to do something about it, Edward Snowden shifts the narrative back onto the United States.

Highlighting real-world examples of civilian cyber engagement, from the Ransomware Hunting Team developing decryptors to organizational models like Cyber Peace Builders that connect volunteers with nonprofits needing cybersecurity assistance.

As Chinese hackers continue their raid of American companies, the threat reaches new levels of urgency, not so much for the sophistication of these hackers, but because of the sheer volume of attacks. And yet, victims continue to keep their breaches under wraps, and the government is hamstrung in what they can say because most everything they know about Chinese cyberespionage is classified.

Welcome to the Data Security Decoded podcast by Rubrik Zero Labs. In this episode, our host, Caleb Tolin, is joined by Michael Razeeq, a cybersecurity policy researcher specializing in advocating for Civilian Cyber Corps (C3s). Michael shares insights into how these volunteer forces, C3s, are transforming community cyber defense, addressing workforce shortages, and providing both preventive and reactive cybersecurity services to underfunded organizations.

From a CISO’s perspective, cybersecurity is a high-stakes game against cybercriminals. We stay calm, cool, and collected—even when attacks are nonstop. With solid incident response and communication plans, we’re always ready to make our next move.

For this special live recording of To Catch a Thief at The New York Stock Exchange, host and former lead cybersecurity and digital espionage reporter for The New York Times, Nicole Perlroth sits down with those who have been directly targeted by, traced, or directly engaged China’s state-sponsored hackers, diplomatically, or in the cyber domain.

"IT Manager's essential advice: Employees are secretly buying software without telling IT. The solution? Join HR and marketing meetings, find out what your team is REALLY doing, and address TikTok use in the office. Clear communication across departments is your best defense against shadow IT.

"We have an attention span of around 1.8 seconds" - Carolin Desirée Toepfer explains why traditional security training isn't working. Learn how repetition and psychology-based approaches can drive real behavior change instead of just checking compliance boxes. Watch this episode of Data Security Decoded for research-backed insights from the founder of a cybersecurity edtech platform.