This week, we welcome Dick Clarke to discuss his new book, The Fifth Domain, and the need for cyber resilience, especially these days! In the Leadership and Communications segment, 4 Behaviors That Help Leaders Manage a Crisis, The Right Way to Keep Your Remote Team Accountable, 15 Steps to Take Before Your Next Video Call, and more!
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In a tight economy, security budgets have been under scrutiny. Vendor consolidation strategies are real, but what are the pros and cons of this strategy? Shawn Surber from Tanium joins us to discuss how vendor consolidation is playing out and what to look for. It's not just an expense exercise, it's also a strategic alignment exercise. This segment is sponsored by Tanium. Visit https://securityweekly.com/tanium to learn more about them! In the Leadership and Communications section, CISO Burnout Prevention: Tips for Work-Life Balance, Maximizing Leadership Potential, The Essence of Effective Management: Commitment, Foresight, and Leadership, and more!
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Check out this interview from the BSW VAULT, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on October 12, 2020.
We go off script. Michael Santarcangelo joins me for a discussion on leadership. We review the 4 C's of Leadership: 1. Culture 2. Collaboration 3. Communication 4. Cultivation - and Michael shares some of his leadership approaches and ideas.
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The Gartner definition of integrated risk management is a set of practices and processes supported by a risk-aware culture and enabling technologies, that improves decision making and performance through an integrated view of how well an organization manages its unique set of risks. Enterprises typically have a broad coverage of the risks that face the business including cybersecurity risk, however, its 2023 and after more than a decade of requiring training compliance for our people, the Verizon DBIR reports this year that 74% of breaches involved human error. It's clear that compliance is not the answer for where to include the human in an IRM strategy, so what's next? In the leadership and communications section, Only one in 10 CISOs today are board-ready, study says, Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger, How to Overcome Communication Barriers in Your Teamwork, and more!
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The American Data Privacy and Protection Act introduces oversight of how companies handle the data they collect and process from U.S. citizens, including AI algorithms used to uncover insights that can be monetized. Security professionals should prepare now for the legislation by understanding how to audit algorithms and implement compliance processes. Even if this version of privacy legislation doesn’t pass, similar legislation will likely pass soon.
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Forbes Tech Council article: Why You Need to Prepare Now for Privacy Legislation That May Not Pass https://www.senecaglobal.com/media-mentions/ftc-why-you-need-to-prepare-now-for-privacy-legislation-that-may-not-pass/
Enterprise Security Tech - American Data Privacy Protection Act: What, Who, How https://www.enterprisesecuritytech.com/post/american-data-privacy-protection-act-what-who-how
Security Info Watch - What the American Data and Privacy Act means for businesses https://www.securityinfowatch.com/security-executives/article/21295869/what-the-american-data-and-privacy-act-means-for-businesses
In the leadership and communications section, Cybersecurity Starts with the Board and C-Suite, How CISOs can achieve more with less during uncertain economic times, Why Authentic Leadership Is So Hard, and more!
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Check out this interview from the BSW VAULT, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on June 8, 2020.
Marc French has more than 25 years of technology experience in engineering, operations, product management, and security. Prior to his current role at CISO at Product Security Group, Marc was the SVP & Chief Trust Officer at Mimecast, Inc. and has held a variety of senior security roles at Endurance/Constant Contact, EMC/RSA, Iron Mountain, Digital Guardian, and Dun & Bradstreet. With all this security experience, Marc has created a series of career ladders to help guide infosec professionals with their job journey, including the illustrious CISO position. We will also cover whether you really want to be a CISO...
All of the open source career ladders can be found here: https://github.com/product-security-group/Security_Ladders
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You can rebuild infrastructure. But you can’t un-breach data – Data sits at the core of an organization and is often the most open and vulnerable. This is why data security is the most important and urgent security problem to solve right now. We’re joined by Matt Radolec, Senior Director of Incident Response and Cloud Operations at Varonis, to walk through the blast radius concept – from what it is and how to use it to understand your organization's risk, to how it can serve as a guide to securing data from insiders and external attackers.
Segment Resources:
The Great SaaS Data Risk Exposure report: https://info.varonis.com/hubfs/Files/docs/research_reports/Varonis-The-Great-SaaS-Data-Exposure.pdf
The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023 https://reprints2.forrester.com/#/assets/2/1646/RES178465/report
Learn more about the Varonis Data Security Platform https://www.varonis.com/products/data-security-platform
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In the leadership and communications section: Do You Really Need a CISO?, A CISO Employment Contract May Mean the Difference Between Success and Jail, When Your Employee Tells You They’re Burned Out, and more!
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Medtronic's Security Ambassador program has seen tremendous growth and engagement in recent years. Learn how they gave their program a shot of adrenaline and haven't looked back since.
Cybersecurity teams today are inundated with tools that provide an abundance of alerts and data about threats, gaps, vulnerabilities and everything in between. While security tools are critical to operating a cybersecurity program and produce helpful data, they should never dictate an organization’s cybersecurity strategy. Instead, Amad Fida, CEO & Founder of Brinqa, explains why business priorities should be the foundation for any company’s cybersecurity strategy.
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Economic uncertainty has forced IT and security leaders to be more cautious than ever when increasing spending and team size. Suh dynamics give CISOs and CIOs an opportunity to demonstrate value by going beyond “merely” defending the organization from threats. We can contribute toward the organization’s efforts to constrain costs by looking inward at existing tools and assets to understand deployment, usage, and value. We can do this by ensuring the company is making the most of what it already has – and eliminating the spend that’s not being utilized in the most effective way.
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Each year, Forrester tracks the top systemic risks — external events that impact your firm and customers but are out of your control — facing organizations. The impacts of climate change are both short-term, in the form of severe weather, drought, and heat waves, and long-term, in the form of biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and rising temperatures. Want to see where climate risk ranked on the list? Read The Top Systemic Risks, 2023 (https://www.forrester.com/report/the-top-systemic-risks-2023/RES179156) or listen to this segment on Business Security Weekly.
A resilient cybersecurity strategy is essential to running your business while protecting against security threats and preventing data breaches. For CISOs, partnering with a managed service security provider (MSSP) means you can be in control of your organization’s information and infrastructure security without placing a strain on internal personnel or resources which is critical in today’s uncertain economy. With an MSSP on board, CISOs are better equipped to meet strategic and business goals, while improving operations and reducing expenses. This interview will discuss not only why to consider an MSSP but how to choose the right one for the job.
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Insider Risk is a problem that continues to grow - and that companies are still struggling to solve. CISOs state that it is the number one most difficult threat to detect, placing it over malware and ransomware. Code42 President and CEO Joe Payne will explain why the Insider Risk problem is so challenging and will offer guidance on how to solve it.
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This week, it's time for Security Money. We recap Q1 2023 with the latest financial results, funding announcements, and layoffs. Don't miss this quarterly update. At the market close on April 28th 2023: - SW25 Index is 1,404.31, which is an increase of 40.43% (up from last Q) since inception. - NASDAQ Index is 12,226.58, which is an increase of 84.27% (up from last Q) during the same period.
CISOs face the complex challenge of protecting organizations against an expanding array of cybersecurity risks. While the role requires constant adaptation to protect against new threats, CISOs often bear the blame when defenses are breached. In this segment Kunal Anand, CTO & CISO, Imperva, discusses the evolution of the role and what aspiring professionals need to know if they want to hold the title.
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Today’s security products are evolving to meet the changing attack surface, each one targeting a specific set of risks. For organizations, this typically means that to increase security maturity, they need to implement a number of different solutions, and as the attack surface continues to expand, their tech stack quickly becomes difficult to manage. It’s time for the industry to help security teams achieve a better balance and reduce this operational burden.
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We talk a lot about closing the skills gap, but it's harder said than done. So we thought we'd tackle the problem in our 2nd episode os Say Easy, Do Hard. Part 1 will discuss the skills needed, the requirements of the position, and the real qualifications for cybersecurity jobs. We will discuss the practical, realistic expectations of working in cybersecurity, not the hyped stereotypical positions.
After discussing the requirements for working in cybersecurity, part 2 will tackle where to find the talent. We will explore education, apprenticeships, mentorships, and training. We will also identify areas within the business that have resources with skills that are very complementary with cybersecurity that also make great recruiting areas.
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Securing the business can often come at a cost of employee productivity, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Especially in today’s economic climate, the security team cannot be seen as a blocker to business. Aviv discusses how to find that balance in today’s episode.
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In the leadership and communications segment, Security Is a Revenue Booster, Not a Cost Center, How cybersecurity leaders can tackle the skills shortage, Engaged Employees Create Better Customer Experiences, and more!
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Barracuda just released a report on Ransomware findings, here: https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/2023 -Ransomware-insights-report.pdf.
Here are a few of the highlighted stats:
Fleming Shi joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the findings and ways to better prepare for these attacks. In the leadership and communications segment, How to Succeed As a New Chief Information Security Officer, Lead by Example: What Army Special Forces Can Teach You About Leadership, How to Take Risks & Conquer Fears, and more!
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Why 300? 300 is a perfect game in bowling, a milestone few have achieved (unless you're Brendan Alderman who has done it twice before the age of 20). 300 podcast episodes is almost 7 years of recording, a milestone most podcasts haven't achieved. So we thought is was worth celebrating! Join current and former BSW hosts to get a brief history of Business Security Weekly, including:
You ask, we respond. This Ask Me Anything (AMA) segment allows the audience to ask the BSW hosts anything. From leadership skills to career advice or even why Alderman keeps moving, this segment answers the questions you want to know.
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We often see security as a thing that has definitive check boxes, end states and deliverables. Audits "end" and then start again, but if you are looking at security as a noun -- as in, a thing that gets done, you are falling short. Security must be a verb. You DO security, you do not HAVE security. Security weaves through every layer and goes beyond the IT assets or codebase. This includes: Guerrilla marketing of gaining end-user buy-in for initiatives Iterative tuning of your data sources Active engagement with real-time feedback from the user base and technical teams Threat- and risk-informed decisions need to be capable of adapting when things get turned upside down. You need to create a culture and the associated processes to look at security like you do. Security teams and roadmaps are designed to look (often myopically) at specific "deliverables" and not so much at the vital signs of the security ecosystem in any given moment (and what that looks like OVER TIME, not at a moment IN time).
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In the leadership and communications section, CISO, The Board, and Cybersecurity, How CISOs Can Work With the CFO to Get the Best Security Budget, Building Effective and Skilled Teams Through Networking, Connectivity, and Communication, and more!
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When CISOs report into CEOs it gives them more autonomy, empowers them with more decision making authority, and eliminates the inherent conflict of interest present when CISOs report into IT leaders like the CIO.
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In the leadership and communications section, CISO: A Job in Search of a Description, The Rise of the BISO in Contemporary Cybersecurity, When More is Less: The Dangers of Over-Communication in Teams, and more!
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Natural language processing AI will be at the forefront in 2023, as it will enable organizations to better understand their customers and employees by analyzing their emails and providing insights about their needs, preferences or even emotions. As AI voice cloning technology becomes more powerful and readily available, we will see an increase in impersonation attacks that utilize audio deepfakes. Join Dr. Kiri Addison, Threat Detection and Efficacy Product Manager, Mimecast to discuss how you can prepare and protect your organization from these types of business email compromises with the right cybersecurity products that can effectively protect them against attacks like these.
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In this week's leadership and communications segment, we discuss overemphasizing metrics, delegation drawbacks, security culture starts at the top, and succeeding in security with economic insecurity.
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From protecting application and data from cyberattacks to meeting compliance regulations, healthcare providers face the complex challenge of providing secure and reliable access to medical data. In this segment, Terry Ray joins Business Security Weekly to discuss common attack trends and security challenges that healthcare providers face along with guidance for securing healthcare data and applications.
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In the leadership and communications section, Your Biggest Cybersecurity Risks Could Be Inside Your Organization, Subtracting: The Simplest Path to Effective Leadership, How to Be a Good Interviewer, and more!
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Lots of press lately regarding ChatGPT and its impact on cybesecurity. Some say it will help us fight adversaries, while others say it will only make adversaries more sophisticated. Lot's of FUD on both sides of the discussion. BSW hosts debate the pros and cons of ChatGPT (and other AI) to truly understand its impact and what we, as security leaders, need to know. In the leadership and communications section, Leaders Are Feeling the Pressure of an Uncertain, Dynamic Risk Landscape, Gartner Predicts Nearly Half of Cybersecurity Leaders Will Change Jobs by 2025, How to Empower Teams, and more!
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It's another holiday week, so enjoy this episode from the BSW archives!
This week, we welcome Graeme Payne, President at Cybersecurity4Executives, to discuss Impacts of a Data Breach! During the Equifax 2017 Data Breach, Graeme Payne was Senior Vice President and CIO of Global Corporate Platforms. He was fired the day before the former Chairman and CEO of Equifax testified to Congress that the root cause of the data breach was a human error and technological failure. Graeme would later be identified as the human error . In the Leadership and Communications Segment, CISO position burnout causes high churn rate, 7 Rules for Staying Productive Long-Term, Now Is an Unprecedented Opportunity to Hire Great Talent, and more!
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How do you manage the human side of cybersecurity? Traditionally, security awareness programs have checked this box from a compliance angle but had minimal impact on cyber risk. Human Risk Management (HRM) is transforming this space by connecting an integrated, data-driven approach with personalized security training to deliver quantifiable results. In this session, we'll define HRM, explore how it is being adopted, and review the business case supporting the change.
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In the leadership and communications section, What CISOs Should Know About Hacking in 2023, Getting Employee Buy-In for Organizational Change, Listening — The most important communication skill, and more!
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This week, it's Security Money. While the major indexes have improved, the SW25 index has not. Pressures from the macro economic conditions appear to have a greater impact on cybersecurity. We'll dig in and review.
In the leadership and communications section, Who Does Your CISO Report To?, 5 CISO Traps to Avoid and Truths to Embrace, How to effectively communicate cybersecurity best practices to staff, and more!
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What keeps the cyber C-Suite up at night? What are their main priorities, and how do they articulate them to board? In this session, we’ll go behind the screens and find out what CISOs from all over the world really think in terms of making turning cyber risk into business risk.
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In the leadership and communications section, Why CISOs Make Great Board Members, Unlock Your Leadership Potential: 12 Must-Read Books to Take Your Skills to the Next Level, How To Get People To Listen To You, and more!
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Richard Seiersen and our guest, Doug Hubbard, are finishing the second edition of How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk. Doug is here to share the success of the first edition and preview the second edition. With more insights, the second edition will share more more research data, free tools, and new concepts like FrankenSME. If you're a risk management professional or want to learn more about risk management, don't miss this interview. In the leadership and communications section, 8 Questions to Ask Before Selecting a New Board Leader, How Cybersecurity Leaders Can Build Employee Trust—And Why It Is Important, 7 rules to communicate the business value of IT, and more!
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We're aren't recording this holiday week, so enjoy this BSW throwback episode! Main host Matt Alderman selected this episode to share as it's still relevant to the InfoSec business community today.
This week, we welcome Jim Routh, Former CSO, Board member, Advisor at Virsec, to discuss The 3 Mistakes All First Time CISOs Make That No One Tells You!
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