11-10-20 - Why Don't Cybercriminals Attack When It's Convenient for Me?

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

Why Don't Cybercriminals Attack When It's Convenient for Me?

This week's episode

is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson. Our guest is Margarita Rivera, vp of information security, LMC. All three of us discussed:

It's never TGIF for those who work in cybersecurity.

Cybercriminals know when our guard is down and it's usually late on a Friday or just before a holiday. At these times, coworkers shift into half-work speed and half cybervigilance. It would be annoying to remind people every Friday to be on guard for cyberattacks, but it's worth it to remind your staff just before a big holiday.

Show support for those still out of work.

We talked about a very emotional post of someone who was suffering a six month streak of rejection. When rejection becomes that overwhelming, it can definitely cause one to start questioning whether you made the right decision to do what you want to do. The way you can get out of that rut is to remind yourself why you started down the path of cybersecurity. What was it that got you excited? Double-down and then reach out to a friend to remind you as well.

COVID has doubled-down on specific threats.

According to some recent research from Boardish, the start of COVID has greatly affected our ability to not physically move, the rise of ransomware, and accidental sharing. We've tried to manage these threats with an increase in user awareness training, remote conferencing, and identity access management (IAM) solutions.

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THIS Friday [11-13-20] We're Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication

Please join us on Friday, November 13th, 2020 at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET for “Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication: An hour of critical thinking on best technologies, implementations, and adoptions of MFA”.I'll be leading this discussion with CISO Taylor Lehmann, board member, H-ISAC and Bojan Simic, CTO and co-founder, HYPR.Watch the preview video.

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