In today’s episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts Series, I’m joined by Dell Technologies’ John Boyle and Rick Martinez. John is a cybersecurity and supply chain defense product manager and Rick is a senior distinguished engineer and a senior director at Dell. Our conversation today revolved around the current state of the cybersecurity industry, supply chain attacks, fed policy and orders, why zero trust is a thing these days, and more.

Some highlights of the discussion with Rick and John included:

• Recent breaches and trends. Discussion around the major cybersecurity breaches that have recently happened, including:
• Colonial pipeline
• JBS Foods
• New Cooperative hack

and response and trends around those attacks, as well as how/whether COVID and other things have contributed to the frequency of attacks.

• Speaking of supply chain. Supply chain attacks are expected to quadruple in 2021 – and why a posture of ‘strong security protection’ is no longer enough.
• President Biden’s executive order. This order, signed at the end of July to protect America’s critical infrastructure and what that involves.
• Zero Trust. We’re hearing a lot about zero trust being the right security posture for the future. Rick elaborates a bit on that and provided some examples.
• What industries are most at risk? Our conversation moved to thoughts on what industries are most at risk and how organizations who don’t have a security posture in place are struggling.
• What can businesses do to protect themselves and some key technologies that can be adopted that will make a difference.
• Overview of Dell security offerings both above and below the OS worth considering.