This month’s special guest is Ciaran Martin, CB, the former CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, a Professor of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, as well as managing director at Paladin Capital and the holder of several other advisory roles in private sector cyber security.   
In our conversation with Ciaran, we touched on the role of the government in cyber security: intervention in the market, managing incidents, and setting a good framework. The conversation discussed the risks associated with offensive responses in dealing with nation-state threats, cybercriminals, and ransomware operators.  
Our guest shares his insights and opinions on subject matters such as regulation in cybersecurity, ransom payments and cyber insurance:   
“We see that some companies are having their insurance companies say that you have to have this set of cyber defenses, you have to have EDR, you have to have this or that, so they can pressure industry to take on cyber defenses. But at the same time, some people really feel that cyber insurance has contributed to the ransomware problem”.  
 
All this and much more is discussed in this episode of The Cyber Insider podcast by Emsisoft, the award-winning cybersecurity company delivering top-notch security solutions for over 20 years.  

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Hosts:  
Luke Connolly – partner manager at Emsisoft  
Brett Callow – threat analyst at Emsisoft  
 
Intro/outro music: “Intro funk” by Lowtone.