12-10-20 - Join us tomorrow for "Hacking SaaS Security"

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TOMORROW! Friday [12-11-20] We're "Hacking SaaS Security"

Please join us on Friday, December 11th, 2020 at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET for “Hacking SaaS Security: An hour of critical thinking on cloud application policy, monitoring, detection, and response”.I'll be leading this discussion with Elena Kvochko, chief trust officer, SAP and Ben Johnson, co-founder and CTO, Obsidian.REGISTER

STICK AROUND FOR THE CYBERSECURITY SPEED DATING!

Immediately after the video chat (11:00 AM PT/2:00 PM ET) we'll rollover to our meetup where we'll match everyone who shows up with another cybersecurity professional. And we'll do it five times in less than 30 minutes.

Thanks to our sponsor Obsidian

This week's episode of Defense in Depth

Imposter Syndrome

This week's episode

is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Allan Alford. Our guest is David Peach, CISO and head of privacy, The Economist Group. All three of us discussed:

• Imposter syndrome is a feeling of not being as good as you purport to be or others perceive you to be. Almost all security professionals, especially CISOs, have moments of imposter syndrome.

• The root of the problem is underestimating your contributions.

• Imposter syndrome can debilitate a security professional. But the opposite is also dangerous. If you don't question your ability and think you alone can solve things and others perceive that you can do that as well, that's a disaster waiting to happen.

• The relentless change of technology and threats can overwhelm a professional and feel that they can't keep up. There's a sense of you will always be behind.

• It's not a sprint, nor a marathon. Security is an infinite game. There's no winning and no moment of relief, but looking at it as a journey you can see success along the way.

• There is an outside pressure that CISOs know more than they actually do, and at the same time they don't want to disappoint management, the business, or the team.

• Imposter syndrome can be seen as a positive when it leads to self awareness and improvement.

• Be smart enough to know how little you do know and accept it, but still stay on that journey to keep learning more.

• You can't teach the person who thinks they know it all.

• The flipside is you rarely get congratulated for your work as a security professional.

Special thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, F5.

Cyber Security Headlines

This week's sponsor of

Cyber Security Headlines

is Code42.

Best Moments from "Hacking User Access"

Here are six minutes of the best moments from “Hacking User Access: An hour of critical thinking on managing initial and ongoing access to network and data”.Joining me for this discussion were Corey Marshall, director of solutions engineering, F5 and Chris Hatter, CISO, Nielsen.Check out the blog post to watch the video, read the "Best Bad Ideas" and the best quotes from the chat room, and to get access to the full one-hour recording.

Huge thanks to our sponsor, F5.

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