We'd Feel Safer if This Legitimate Email Was a Phishing Attack

We'd Feel Safer if This Legitimate Email Was a Phishing Attack

November 13, 2018

CISO | Security Vendor Relationship Series

This week's podcast episode

We'd Feel Safer if This Legitimate Email Was a Phishing Attack

We'd Feel Safer if This Legitimate Email Was a Phishing Attack

What you'll learn:

On this week's podcast, co-host Mike Johnson, CISO of Lyft, and our guest Chenxi Wang, managing general partner, Rain Capital, discuss the following:

  • Blockchain has some attractive features for security professionals. While just hearing the term "blockchain" causes some eyes to roll, its mere architecture of no single point of failure and the ability to compute decentralized trust should be very attractive to security professionals.

  • What will be the first popular blockchain security application? Blockchain may be a technology looking for a problem to solve. Our guest, Chenxi Wang believes that blockchain's first popular application will be distributed identity. Stay tuned!

  • The board needs to establish a risk tolerance baseline. For security professionals to do their job, the board needs to communicate an acceptable level of risk. Then the security team can create a program and compare it to the company's risk tolerance.

  • Resist the urge to hire look-alike candidates. The reason we fall into the "lack of diversity" trap is because we keep hiring people who look and think like us. Going out of that bubble is difficult. That's why we have a diversity problem.

  • Create a welcoming office culture through diversity. You'll have a lot more success attracting a diverse pool of candidates if you set the tone early on. Make sure your first five hires have diverse backgrounds.

Special thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, Virtru

Virtru is a data privacy company that gives organizations persistent protection, granular control, and audit visibility to keep their data private, wherever it goes. Their patented technology eliminates the tradeoff between security and ease of use by seamlessly integrating data-centric protection into platforms like Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. Customers trust the Virtru Data Protection Platform to easily protect and control sensitive information wherever it’s created, stored, or shared. 

For a limited time, Virtru is providing newsletter readers access to Forrester's 14-page report on the Future of Data Security and Privacy (

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Best Responses to "How to Make a Huge Impact in the Security Community with Zero Marketing"

Best Responses to "How to Make a Huge Impact in the Security Community with Zero Marketing"

This is my feedback, to your feedback, to my article, “How to Make a Huge Impact in the Security Community with Zero Marketing.” This is a great story of a security vendor who who chose to eschew traditional security marketing instead for community outreach efforts via open source and similar contributions. Make sure you read the

, and then watch the best responses 

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Three of the Best Moments from “Is This a Vendor Dinner or an Escape Room?”

Three of the Best Moments from “Is This a Vendor Dinner or an Escape Room?”

Not counting on employees to follow security policies, building a security program around zero trust, and the worst situation is when more people ignore you. To hear the details, you'll need to

from the November 6, 2018 episode of the CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast with my co-host Mike Johnson, CISO of Lyft and our guest Richard Seiersen, former CISO of LendingClub.

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if you missed it last week.

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