Thematic: Cybersecurity

Today Alec and Sascha discuss what a ‘password-less future’ looks like...

It's our final episode for the year. Since launching at the end of April, we’ve released 149 episodes, written a quarter of a million words in notes, won Best Business Podcast at this year’s Australian Podcast Award, and been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times - by you.

In today's episode Bryce & Alec discuss the environment and more particularly the investing opportunities in companies and ETF's firmly entrenched in the combat and development of cybersecurity.

Candice and Felicity are joined today by Mary Manning - who's a Portfolio Manager at Alphinity Investment Management.

If you are an Optus or Medibank customer, you may have had this word cybersecurity on your mind. As we become more interconnected with devices, the risk of cybersecurity attacks is increasingly rapid - so it begs the question, is there an investment opportunity in cybersecurity? Today, we start at the very beginning (given we are new to the topic!) and chat about our thoughts on what cybersecurity actually is, where are the emerging trends and give the pros and cons for three ETFs that cover the space.

The biggest news story of the past week here in Australia has been the Optus Hack. Australia’s second largest telco reported at the start of the week that they had been hacked and the data of up to 9.8 million Australians had been stolen. For context - with a population of 26 million people, that’s almost 40% of the population.

In this episode, hosts Tracey, Craig and Blake discuss scams, hacks and other security issues facing the crypto industry. We start off discussing the most infamous exchange hack in history - the 2014 hack of Mt Gox that saw 850,000 BTC stolen. Although some work is being done to recover them, to this day the coins remain missing.