Preventing Ransomware

Preventing Ransomware

September 02, 2021

CISO Series

There is no Video Chat this Friday [09-03-21], but join us on Friday [09-10-21] for "Hacking Alert Fatigue"

Hacking Alert Fatigue (Sept 10)

Our discussion will be 

"Hacking Alert Fatigue: How to Manage What Seems to Be Unmanageable."

It all begins at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET on Friday September 10th, 2021, with guests Sandy Bird, co-founder and CTO, Sonrai Security, and Shawn M Bowen, CISO, World Fuel Services. We'll have fun conversation and games, plus at the end of the hour (11 AM PT/2 PM ET) we'll do our meetup (AKA "cybersecurity speed dating").

Thanks to our video chat sponsor, Sonrai Security.

Thanks to our video chat sponsor, Sonrai

PLUS on 9-13-21 we're having a special bonus Monday night chat "Hacking the Insider Risk Summit"

Hacking the Insider Risk Summit

Our discussion will be 

"Hacking the Insider Risk Summit: An hour of critical thinking about creating a security aware culture."

It all begins at a LATER TIME on a MONDAY. It all starts at 3:30 PM PT/6:30 PM ET on Friday September 10th, 2021, with guests Joe Payne, president and CEO, Code42 and Masha Sedova, president, Elevate Security. We'll have fun conversation and games, plus at the end of the hour (4:30 PM PT/7:30 PM ET) we'll do our meetup (AKA "cybersecurity speed dating").

Thanks to our video chat sponsor, Code42, who is hosting the Insider Risk Summit.

Insider Risk Summit

Defense in Depth

Preventing Ransomware 

Defense in Depth Preventing Ransomware

On this week's Defense in Depth, co-host Geoff Belknap, CISO, LinkedIn, and I welcome guest Rebecca Harness, CISO, St. Louis University. Here are a few of the highlights of our discussion:

  • What is the one critical step to preventing ransomware?

  • The importance of leadership and employee buy-in

  • How to make training and education actually work

  • Should backups be included on this list?

  • What about the supply chain?

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Thanks to our podcast sponsor, VMware

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, VMware

Overheard on Defense in Depth 

“[As a new CISO] what you really have is 48 hours to talk to your staff and figure out who you can trust and who you can't and, based on that, start making some decisions. If you can't trust your staff go for a pen test” - Steve Zalewski, co-host, Defense in Depth

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 Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review 

We’re live tomorrow – and every Friday – at 12:30pm PT / 3:30 pm ET for a short 20-minute discussion of the week's cyber news. Here are a few of the stories we'll be discussing on the show:

  • Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure

  • T-Mobile hacker brute-forced his way through the network

  • CISA adds single-factor authentication to the list of bad practices

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Thanks to this week's headlines sponsor, Semperis.

Thanks to this week's headlines sponsor, Semperis

 Highlights from CISO Series Video Chat "Hacking User Adoption" 

Highlights from CISO Series Video Chat "Hacking User Adoption" 

Here are five of the best moments from "Hacking User Adoption" with Bojan Simic, CEO, HYPR, and Will Gregorian, head of security and IT operations, Rhino.

you can watch the video, read the best bad ideas, and best quotes from the chat room.

Thanks to our video chat sponsor, HYPR.

Thanks to our video chat sponsor, HYPR

Overheard on CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast 

“I've seen countless people who get hit by something - and not just ransomware but any disaster - and then all of a sudden, they never try to restore from backups at all. They found their backups were - you know, were corrupted in one way or another.” - Ira Winkler, CISO, Skyline Technology Solutions

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