Category: CISO Series

https://cisoseries.com/why-ignoring-most-of-your-vulnerabilities-is-the-best-strategy/‘ Which vulnerability should you tackle first? Second? Which ones should you ignore? Probably a lot more than you think. On this week’s CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast, David Spark of CISO Series and I welcome sponsored guest Ed Bellis, CTO, co-founder, Kenna Security (now part of Cisco) to discuss vulnerability management among many other issues.…

https://cisoseries.com/the-perfect-gift-for-a-cyber-crook/ What do you give to the person who wants to learn how to steal everything? On this week’s CISO Series CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast, David Spark and I welcome sponsored guest Jim Wachhaus, director of technical product marketing, CyCognito to discuss: – How can we shore up our cybersecurity hygiene?– What have we heard…

https://cisoseries.com/were-very-good-at-saying-we-care-about-diversity/ It’s extremely easy to say you want to diversify. In fact, I’ll do it right now three times. We want diversity.We’re very pro diversity and it’s our focus for the next year.Diversity is a very important part of our security program.Please don’t ask to though look at the lack of diversity on our staff.…

https://cisoseries.com/a-quick-way-to-tell-which-vendors-you-should-avoid/ Do you really need to ask hundreds of questions to know if you want to work with a vendor? On this week’s CISO Series CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast, David Spark and I welcome guest Nick Selby, CSO, Paxos Trust Company to discuss: – How do you suss out security vendors to make sure they’re…

https://cisoseries.com/whats-the-roi-of-nothing-happening/ On this week’s CISO Series CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast, David Spark and I welcome my colleague Ryan Gurney, CISO-in-residence, YL Ventures to discuss: – What’s a better sign than “nothing happened” to indicate you did a good job in cybersecurity?– What happens when your company wants to use a really insecure SaaS product?– What…

https://cisoseries.com/could-we-speak-to-your-ciso-to-confirm-he-received-the-cupcakes/ This week’s episode is hosted by David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Our guest is Branden Newman, svp, CISO, MGM Resorts. “It’s generous to say that somebody saying military grade means they’re meeting a specific standard.. anybody who’s meeting a specific standard is going to…

https://cisoseries.com/make-your-friends-jealous-with-our-hand-crafted-passwords/ This week’s CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast was actually recorded in front of a small live audience at The Passwordless Summit in Newport, Rhode Island. The event was sponsored by HYPR, our sponsor for this episode as well. Joining me and my co-host, Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures, was our sponsored guest, Brian Heemsoth (@bheemsoth), head of cyber defense and…

https://cisoseries.com/we-shame-others-because-were-so-right-about-everything/ “I hate the ‘blame the user’ model of phishing tests. Phishing tests are to inform you about how bad your email infrastructure actually is. The user is just one piece of it.” Full Transcript Voiceover Ten second security tip. Go. Edward Contreras When engaged in a conversation, make sure you’re all using the same…

https://cisoseries.com/are-you-asking-how-secure-are-we-or-how-insecure-am-i/ This week’s episode is hosted by David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Our guest is Kevin Morrison, CISO, Alaska Air. “If you don’t have a path for hiring that junior person and developing them all the way up to become a senior person, you know…