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We're told from a very early age that putting electronic devices in our mouth, let along swallowing them, isn't a great idea. In this episode, engineering professor Chris Bettinger talks about how edible electronics may someday help diagnose and treat human disease. 

How eating electronics can help diagnose and treat human disease

Some studies have shown that the average person has over 50 online accounts-- that's a lot of passwords to recall on a daily basis. In this episode, computer science and engineering professor Lorrie Cranor offers her insight on what makes a good password good and how we all can better protect our online data.

What goes into a good, secure password?

We've all heard of hacking contests where the participants are computer security experts. But a hacking contest where the participants are... computers? That's a new one, and in this episode, we hear from CMU-spinoff ForAllSecure who is heading to the national stage to compete against the nation's best autonomous hacking systems.

Teaching a computer to hack... all by itself

When it comes to climate change, we all know that CO2 emissions are a big problem—but they aren’t the only one. In this episode, we’re talking to researchers in CMU’s Smart Infrastructure Institute and the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, who have partnered with People’s Gas to examine their natural gas pipelines for leaking methane, one of climate change’s biggest contributors.

Why are our streets leaking so much methane?

Cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game where the mouse always has long had the upper hand because it’s so easy for new malware to go undetected. Dr. Eli David, an expert in computational intelligence and CTO of Deep Instinct, wants to use AI to change that, bringing the GPU-powered deep learning techniques underpinning modern speech and image recognition to the vexing world of cybersecurity.

Ep. 9: Winning the Cybersecurity Cat and Mouse Game with AI

Hackers are in high demand by companies to help strengthen their security, but there's currently a shortage of talent. CyLab director David Brumley argues that the problem is that society at-large does not fully understand what hacking means. 

In this episode, we'll hear from four members of CMU's top internationally ranked hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, about how they got into hacking, and why.

A glimpse into the hacker psyche

What exactly happened? And how can you best protect yourself? Get answers to these questions and more as Lance Spitzner, Director at SANS Securing the Human, weighs in on the data breach affecting 143 million Equifax users

Equifax Breach

People, process, and technology. It’s an interlocked trio that’s vital to most organizations today. And when there’s a shift in security operations or strategy, all three will feel the jolt. In this episode, we’ll be talking with two guest speakers who draw on their firsthand experiences to share must-do and avoid-at-all-costs security operations and strategy advice.

Some of the topics that we’ll cover include:
•Skills that are most needed for today’s security operations and analyst roles
•Differentiating between product security and IT security
•How to adapt security operations and architecture for public cloud deployments

Security Operations and Strategy

It’s never good news when potential security exploits are detected. But when they affect all personal computers, mobile devices and cloud infrastructure dating back to 1995, it creates a problem of a whole new magnitude. In this episode, we’ll be talking with Paul Kocher, the researcher credited with co-discovering Spectre and a co-author of the Meltdown research paper.

Some of the topics that we cover include:

•How did these vulnerabilities happen, and why were they not detected sooner?
•Did the rush to bring technology to market play a role in allowing these exploits to slip through the cracks?
•What are the main concerns to look out for—both as an individual and as a CISO?

Spectre And Meltdown

"Make It Real" is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with researchers leading innovative research projects in Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering.