Government Information Security Podcast

What kind of people do cybersecurity for a living? In the past, there was a formula potential practitioners followed, but today there are many ways to get into the field and having people from diverse backgrounds is valued. The Curry brothers discuss the cybersecurity profession.

Securing an organization often requires making fast decisions, said Tom Corn of Ontinue, and AI can gather information that you can use to answer the questions you have about how to handle a security problem. Corn discusses operationalizing an AI-first approach to security.

Implementing a zero trust security approach is critical to avoid the types of major IT disruptions and massive data compromises seen in recent cyberattacks that affected the healthcare, public health and government sectors, said Clinton McCarty, CISO at National Government Services.

Red teaming is not effective for evaluating the efficacy of preventative or detective security controls, said Jared Atkinson of Specter Ops, but purple teaming is. Purple teaming as "the evaluation of security control efficacy through atomic testing, using deliberately selected test cases."

Developers are using more and more open-source code because they "want to move fast," said Cycode's Lotem Guy. But the speed of development and the continuous deployment that follows means security teams have to catch up to the fast-moving development life cycle.

As cyberthreats increase and evolve, the security of sensitive data and critical operations is paramount. There is a pressing need for government agencies and critical infrastructure to choose a FedRAMP-authorized identity security, also known as identity governance, solution.

Acronis President Gaidar Magdanurov discusses the need for immutable backups in the current threat landscape and highlights the benefits of integrating security measures with backup systems to facilitate automated recovery from ransomware attacks and minimize downtime.

Payment fraud is the top risk to companies across the globe. Business email compromise is continually on the rise. Johnny Deutsch, co-founder and CEO of B2B payments protection company Creednz, discusses the need to integrate security into financial processes.

Artificial intelligence technologies offer tremendous promise in healthcare, but it's crucial for organizations to carefully assess the complex data privacy concerns involved with different types of AI products and deployments, said Karen Habercoss, chief privacy officer at UChicago Medicine.

The chaos experienced by thousands of healthcare organizations in the wake of the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack and IT outage in February is proof that most organizations are simply unprepared for such devastating incidents, said Bryan Chnowski, deputy CISO at Nuvance Health.