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Today Kevin and Laura talk with Chris Roberts, Boom Supersonic's CISO, about aviation technology, the Concorde, hacking all the things (including the Mars Rover!), building planes, epic beards, DefCon, Back to the Future, hover boards and flying cars!\\xa0 Chris also casually confessed to breaking into prison, money laundering and robbing banks.\\xa0 \\xa0

Chris is the CISO for Boom Supersonic and works as an advisor for several entities and organizations around the globe.\\xa0 His most recent projects are focused within the aerospace, deception, identity, cryptography, Artificial Intelligence, and services sectors. Over the years, he's founded or worked with several folks specializing in OSINT/SIGINT/HUMINT research, intelligence gathering, cryptography, and deception technologies. These days he\\u2019s working on spreading the risk, maturity, collaboration, and communication word across the industry.\\xa0

Since the late 90\\u2019s Chris has been deeply involved with security R&D, consulting, and advisory services in his quest to protect and defend businesses and individuals against various types of attack. Prior to that he jumped out of planes for a living, visiting all sorts of interesting countries and cultures while doing his best to avoid getting shot at too often.\\xa0

He\\u2019s considered one of the world\\u2019s foremost experts on counter threat intelligence and vulnerability research within the Information Security industry. He\\u2019s also gotten a name for himself in the transportation arena, basically anything with wings, wheels, tracks, tyres, fins, props or paddles has been the target for research for the last 15 years.

Chris has led or been involved in information security assessments and engagements for the better part of 25 years and has a wealth of experience with regulations such as GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA, HITECH, FISMA, and NERC/FERC.\\xa0 He has also worked with government, state, and federal authorities on standards such as CMS, ISO, CMMC, and NIST.

Chris has been credentialed in many of the top IT and information security disciplines and as a CyberSecurity advocate and passionate industry voice, he is regularly featured in national newspapers, television news, industry publications and several documentaries.\\xa0

And worst case, to jog the memory, Chris was the researcher who gained global attention in 2015 for demonstrating the linkage between various aviation systems, both on the ground and while in the air that allowed the exploitation of attacks against flight control system.