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05-05-20 - LOOK! Freshmen CISOs. Get Ready to POUNCE!
LOOK! Freshmen CISOs. Get Ready to POUNCE!
This week's episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast
LOOK! Freshmen CISOs. Get Ready to POUNCE!
is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson. Our guest is Wayne Reynolds, CISO, Toyota Financial Savings Bank. The three of us discussed:
When someone announces a new job, that's not an open door for sales pitches.
Like on dating sites, when someone new enters the CISO field, security vendors leap and immediately push product. For our guest, the response was overwhelming. Upon his new job announcement, he got more than 1,000 pitches in a little over a week. Instead of jumping to 'pay attention to me,' give the person some time, and use that time to conduct some OSINT (open source intelligence) and work your connections to that CISO.
How can your product make a CISO productive?
The only way you know that is if early on you're developing a customer satisfaction program. Investors who see startups behaving this way can't write a check fast enough.
What's it like to be the most senior security person?
It's the question you need to ask yourself, and live, if you want to become a CISO. Seek out a mentor to get you thinking strategically. It's not something you're usually asked to do when you're not a CISO. But if you want to be one, show how well you know the business and how your security posture is going to fit into the business' architecture, and not the other way around.
Special thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, AppOmni.
is the leading provider of SaaS security and management platform for the enterprise. AppOmni provides unprecedented data access visibility, management and security of SaaS, enabling organizations to secure mission-critical and sensitive data. With AppOmni, organizations can automatically and continuously enforce rules for data access, data sharing and third-party applications.
This FRIDAY [5-8-20] Hacking the Speed of GRC
Join us for "Hacking GRC: An hour of critical thinking of how we can improve the governance, risk, and compliance process".It's happening at on Friday, May 8th, 2020 at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern. REGISTERWatch the preview.It'll be fun. We'll have our "bad idea" game. And you'll get a challenge to connect with your fellow cybersecurity colleagues
Next FRIDAY [5-15-20] Hacking the Visibility of the Cloud
Join us for “Hacking the Visibility of the Cloud: An hour of critical thinking about what we can see and what we’d like to see in the cloud”.It’s happening this Friday, May 15th, 2020 at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern.REGISTERI'll be moderating the discussion with Rishi Tripathi, svp, CISO, NBA and Avi Shua, CEO & co-founder, Orca Security and former Chief Technologist at Check Point. And anyone else who joins us in the chat. This discussion is dynamic. We want your thoughts and questions to be part of the programming.Huge thanks to our video chat sponsor Orca Security.
Enter to play "What Is It and Why Do I Care?"
This is a brand new game for CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast where we ask vendors to submit the best explanation of their category and what makes them unique. We’ll match companies in similar categories, and then I'll read the explanations (“What is it?”) and the differentiators (“Why do I care?”) to the CISOs all without revealing the names of the companies or the people who sent in the submissions. If the CISOs pick either response as their favorite, I'll then reveal the names of the winners, but not the losers.There's no risk to you to make your pitch. When have you ever heard that in cybersecurity?Go ahead and pitch and potentially you could get some kudos for your savvy skills explaining your technology.
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