The Cyber Ranch Podcast

Data-Driven Cybersecurity with Wade Baker

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Howdy, y’all!  Our guest today is Wade Baker, cybersecurity researcher, entrepreneur, professor…  Wade is a Board of Directors member of the FAIR Institute, was an Advisory Board Member at the RSA Conference, was VP of Strategy & Risk Analytics at ThreatConnect, and is now Co-Founder of Cyentia Institute, which aims to advance cybersecurity knowledge and practice through data-driven research.  Wade joins Drew and Allan to talk about (go figure!) data-driven cybersecurity.  The three smash through a lot of assumptions and get to the heart of what is really going on in cybersecurity.

Questions covered:

  1. What is the Information Risk Insights Study (IRIS)? (cyentia.com/iris/)
  • What is a good summary of the IRIS Ransomware report?
  • How organizations out there can be more data-driven?
  • Analyst whitepapers vs. real data research – what are the differences?
  • Who else can mine data like this?
  • What truths do people resist or what do they fail to embrace?
  • What are the sacred cows and the “inflatable cows”?
  • Is the cyber job shortage a real, data-backed problem?
  • The desire for “flat math” vs. curves (the 5x5 grid) …
  • Measuring the problem side vs the solution side…
  • Actual best practices vs. common practices…
  • Insurance industry data and why they don’t share it…
  • Much of what we do does not affect the realities of our cyber risk.
  • Stepping back from all of this, what is the value in data-driven industry analysis of this sort?
  • How does one sponsor IRIS publications?

    • Y’all be good now!

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