
The Long Game with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer
America’s Cybersecurity Crisis Starts With Software (w/Jen Easterly)
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President Trump is preparing to sign a major executive order on AI and cybersecurity at a moment of growing concern over cyber threats from China, Russia, Iran, and criminal ransomware gangs. Jen Easterly, former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and now CEO of RSAC, the world's largest cybersecurity community, joins Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer to discuss: Why America has a software security problem, not just a cybersecurity problem How insecure software shifted risk from tech companies onto consumers Why AI tools like Mythos and GPT-5.5 Cyber could fundamentally change cyber defense What China’s Volt Typhoon campaign revealed about U.S. infrastructure…