10-20-20 - Can a Robot Be Concerned About Your Privacy?

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This week's episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast

Can a Robot Be Concerned About Your Privacy?

This week's episode

is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson. Our sponsored guest is Rebecca Weekly, senior director of hyperscale strategy and execution, senior principal engineer, Intel. All three of us discussed:

Privacy as competitive advantage.

For years, it seemed the corporate norm was to push users to relinquish their privacy for additional functionality. This would give the business more insight into user behavior to be able to sell more products. But now privacy is hip and something companies want to promote. For example, Apple is spending advertising dollars to promote their privacy controls. If you're creating an AI/ML engine, what information could be anonymized and/or thrown out after use?

Lack of diversity didn't happen overnight.

 We're in this lack of diversity issue today because of years of ignoring it. That's why we've got issues like lack of pipeline. But for the sake of increased security, this can't continue. In most households, women control the majority of discretionary spending. Cybersecurity comes down to usage model. If you have female visitors to your business, it would be imperative that you have female security professionals on your team to better relate to behavioral patterns.

COVID froze and eliminated certain activities.

Many companies unable to predict revenue streams during these uncertain times froze hiring entirely. Others started digital transformation projects. And most everyone has been forced to work remotely. The toughest struggle has been trying to maintain culture when you can't get together in person.

Special thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, Intel.

Intel’s new suite of security features in the upcoming Xeon Scalable platform improves data confidentiality and integrity in a world that increasingly relies on it. Features like Intel SGX further enable confidential computing scenarios — crucial for organizations in regulated industries to meet growing security requirements and protect sensitive data.

Cyber Security Headlines

This week's sponsor of

Cyber Security Headlines

is SecureLayer7.

THIS Friday [10-23-20] We're Hacking Build vs. Buy Automation

Please join us on Friday, October, 23rd, 2020 at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET for “Hacking Build vs. Buy Automation: An hour of critical thinking on the ongoing security decision.”I'll be leading this discussion with Scott Eigenhuis, head of security, Helix and Chas Ballew, CEO, Aptible.Watch the preview video.

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Plus, immediately after the video chat (11:00 AM PT/2:00 PM ET) we'll rollover to our meetup where you get a chance to connect with fellow cybersecurity professionals.

Thanks to our sponsor Aptible

BONUS episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast

Innovators Spotlight

On this very special bonus episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast, I invite two special guests, David Tyburski, CISO, Wynn Resorts and Matt Crouse, CISO, Taco Bell to answer the question what makes a security company innovative and determine if any of the three competing security vendors during the Evanta 2020 Global CISO Virtual Executive Summit were in fact innovative.Our three competitors (and also sponsors) were:

• John Worrall, CEO, ZeroNorth

• Nick Halsey, CEO, Okera

• Demetrios Lazarikos, CEO and co-founder, Blue Lava

Thanks to these sponsors and Evanta for their support on this episode.

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