Defense in Depth

What are the tell tale signs you've got ransomware before you receive the actual ransomware threat?

Check out this post and this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn, and our sponsored guest Brian Vecci (@BrianTheVecci), field CTO, Varonis.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Varonis

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In this episode:

• How to catch the ransomware threat earlier
• The individual capabilities needed in a full anti-ransomware stack
• Honeypots and anomalous behavior
• Back to basics: look at how ransomware works

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn, and our guest Robert Wood (@holycyberbatman), CISO at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Living Security

Traditional approaches to security communication are limited to one-off training sessions that fail to take customers, regulators, and other external stakeholders into account and rarely affect long-term behavioral change. This report lays out a four-step plan that CISOs should follow to manage the human risk. It provides design principles for creating transformational security awareness initiatives which will win the hearts and minds of senior executives, employees, the technology organization, and customers.

In this episode:

• Will there be a day that phishing can be solved by technology?
• Does more training lower risk?
• Is it enough just to protect "inside" the environment?
• What can we do to change the culture?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

SIEM tools that ingest and analyze data are ubiquitous in security operations centers. But just knowing what's happening in your environment is not enough. For competitive reasons, must SIEM tools expand and offer more automation, intelligence, and the ability to act on that intelligence?

Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn, and our guest Chris Grundemann (@ChrisGrundemann), category lead, security, GigaOm.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Keyavi

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In this episode:

• Will products from these two categories just merge as one product?
• Or will they NEED to merge?
• Are there advantages for them to stay separate?
• Where does "trust" fit into this merger?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Steve Zalewski, and our guest Adam Keown, director, information security, Eastman.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, VMware

In this episode:

• What's more valuable to get hired: degrees or experience?
• What's better: narrow focus or broad skill range?
• What's more attractive: knowledge or drive?
• What's the deal: is there even such a thing as "entry level"?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

What is the most critical step to preventing ransomware? Security professionals may be quick to judge users and say it's a lack of cyberawareness. Could it be something else?

Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn, and our guest Rebecca Harness (@rebeccaharness), CISO, St. Louis University.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, VMware

In this episode:

• 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?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

For four years in a row, Verizon's DBIR, has touted compromised credentials as the top cause of data breaches. That means bad people are getting in yet appearing to be legitimate users. What are these malignant users doing inside our network? What are the techniques to both understand and allow for good yet thwart bad lateral movement?

Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Steve Zalewski, and our sponsored guest Sandy Wenzel (@malwaremama), cybersecurity transformation engineer, VMware.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, VMware

In this episode:

• Why are bad people getting inside our networks?
• Can machine learning help find them?
• How can we separate lateral movement from credential stuffing?
• Would using threat modeling and going passwordless help?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

You've just joined a company as CISO, what's the very first step you would take to improve the security posture of your new company?

Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Steve Zalewski, and our guest Olivia Rose, vp of IT and security, Amplitude.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Proofpoint

Sixty six percent of CISOs feel their organization is unprepared to handle a cyberattack and 58% consider human error to be their biggest cyber vulnerability. Proofpoint's 2021 Voice of the CISO report explores key challenges facing CISOs after an unprecedented twelve months. Get the report.

In this episode:

• How can new CISOs fast-track their learning process to make better decisions sooner?
• How much does the CISO need to know about the environment before they start pentesting?
• Using a " Power Interest Matrix" to help manage the people who influence your work
• Why aligning with HR is a key move

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

How is ransomware getting into your network? Is the path direct, like via email, or does it take a more circuitous route?

Check out this post and this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Steve Zalewski, and our sponsored guest Ryan Kalember (@rkalember), evp, cybersecurity strategy, Proofpoint.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Proofpoint

Sixty six percent of CISOs feel their organization is unprepared to handle a cyberattack and 58% consider human error to be their biggest cyber vulnerability. Proofpoint's 2021 Voice of the CISO report explores key challenges facing CISOs after an unprecedented twelve months. Get the report.

In this episode:

• What role do email and phishing actually play?
• Has working from home really increased the threat?
• How dwell time has changed things
• Getting up to speed on sufficient backups

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

Why should security professionals get certifications? Do they actually teach you what you need to know to solve cybersecurity challenges? OR do they act as gateways or approval checks to be admitted into the field of cybersecurity?

Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, guest co-host Will Gregorian (@willgregorian), head of IT and security, Rhino and our guest Shawn M. Bowen (@smbowen), CISO, World Fuel Services.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Palo Alto Networks

First, every company became a software company. Now, every company needs to be a cybersecurity company too. Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks a single security platform that delivers comprehensive protection from code through app, so your company can keep doing what it's supposed to do. Learn more at paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/cloud.

In this episode:

• Are certifications like the CISSP necessary?
• Even if they are necessary to get hired, are they relevant?
• Let's say something good about certs.
• Who benefits most from certs? The candidate or the hiring manager?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series

How are you measuring your progress and success with cloud security? How much visibility into this are you providing to your engineering teams?

Check out this post and this post for the basis for our conversation on this week's episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn and our sponsored guest Matthew Chiodi (@mattchiodi), CSO, public cloud, Palo Alto Networks.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Palo Alto Networks

If you're doing cloud security right, no one knows if you've done anything. When you do it wrong, well, you end up on Cybersecurity Headlines. Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks helps ensure your security stays in the quietly appreciated group. It's a single security platform that delivers comprehensive protection from code to cloud. Learn more at paloaltonetworks.com/prisma/cloud.

In this episode

• What requirements need to be measured?
• Measuring against compliance
• Building a company-specific guardrails framework
• Measuring team performance by number of opened and closed issues