Cyber Security Interviews

Cyber Security Interviews

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Cyber Security Interviews episodes

  • #077 – Frank Downs: Know When To Leave
    Frank Downs is the director of cybersecurity practices at ISACA. Frank, a 14-year cybersecurity specialist, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, after which he promptly joined the US Department of Defense as a subject matter expert, working with computer networks on a daily basis. Realizing that English and cybersecurity were two very different concepts, he proceeded to obtain a master’s degree in cybersecurity from UMBC, after a pit stop at Johns Hopkins to obtain a master’s degree in Government.
    Eventually, Frank decided to ease the learning process for individuals transitioning from non-technical backgrounds into cybersecurity by becoming a full-time Intelligence and Operations Consultant for multiple federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
    In this episode, we discuss starting in another industry before the DoD, packet capture analysis, doing the work no one else wants to do, knowing when to move into new roles, non-traditional backgrounds, training and certifications, COBIT, and so much more.
    49 min
  • #076 – Lesley Carhart: You’ve Got to Play the Game
    Lesley Carhart is a Principal Threat Analyst at the Threat Operations Center at Dragos. She is recognized as a subject matter expert in cybersecurity, incident response, and digital forensics, regularly speaking at conferences and universities. She has spent the last 11 years of her 20+ year IT career specializing in information security, with a heavy…
    46 min
  • #075 – Brian Martin (Jericho): The Hacker Mindset
    Brian Martin (a.k.a. Jericho) has been poking about the hacker and security scene for over 22 years, building valuable skills such as skepticism and anger management. As a hacker-turned-security whore, Jericho has a great perspective to offer an unsolicited opinion on just about any security topic. A long-time advocate of advancing the field, sometimes by…
    49 min
  • #074 – Bill Conner: You Cannot Have Privacy Without Security
    Bill Conner is the President and CEO of SonicWall. Bill has lead key divisions of AT&T, took Nortel into the $9 billion acquisition of Bay Networks, worked to secure digital identities with Entrust, and brought secure communications and privacy from the consumer to the enterprise through mobile and cloud with Silent Circle. Bill also created…
    43 min
  • #073 – Bernard Harguindeguy: Identity Is The Keystone
    Bernard Harguindeguy is the Chief Technology Officer & General Manager Intelligence from Ping Identity. Bernard joined Ping in June 2018 through the acquisition of Elastic Beam, where he was the CEO and founder. His work at Elastic Beam revolutionized the use of AI to protect API infrastructures from cyber attacks and deliver deep insight into…
    40 min
  • #072 – Vinny Sakore: This Was Crime
    Vinny Sakore joined the NetDiligence team in 2017 as their Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining NetDiligence Vinny served as Verizon’s HIPAA Security Officer. His previous experience includes stints as Chief Technology Officer for two healthcare technology companies. Vinny is a featured speaker nationally and internationally on the topics of Cyber Risk, Mobile Technology, and…
    40 min
  • #071 – Renaud Deraison: Complexity Breeds Insecurity
    Renaud Deraison is known in the global security community as the father of the Nessus vulnerability scanner. His original creation, Nessus, celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2013 and is considered the de facto standard for vulnerability scanning worldwide. Renaud co-founded Tenable Network Security in 2002. As Chief Technology Officer, he drives product strategy and development.…
    27 min
  • #070 – Lorrie Cranor: Help Open The Doors
    Lorrie Faith Cranor, IEEE Fellow, is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of CyLab and the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She also directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program.…
    30 min
  • #069 – Ben Johnson: Break Down The Problems
    Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Obsidian Security. Prior to founding Obsidian, he co-founded Carbon Black and most recently served as the company’s Chief Security Strategist. As the company’s original CTO, he led efforts to create the powerful capabilities that helped define the next-generation endpoint security space. Prior to Carbon Black, Ben was an…
    52 min
  • #068 – Deborah Blyth: Security Is Everybody’s Job
    Deborah Blyth is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) State of Colorado, Governor’s Office of Information Technology. In August 2014, Deborah Blyth became the state’s new CISO, bringing a diverse 25-year technology background including 14 years of information security experience. As the CISO, she serves as the point of contact for all information security initiatives…
    45 min

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