Welcome to my little corner of the Internet!
In this channel I give 'real talk' about information security and technologies that impact both your business and personal lives. I try and focus
... moreBy Aaron Bregg
Welcome to my little corner of the Internet!
In this channel I give 'real talk' about information security and technologies that impact both your business and personal lives. I try and focus
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The podcast currently has 105 episodes available.
In this episode I talk with Matt Berzinski about the important of understanding that identity is a journey not a destination. Matt is the Senior Director of Product Management for Ping Identity and has extensive knowledge about identity.
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Episode Charity:
Proceeds from this episode's sponsorship will be going towards the Baker-Bonsai Friendship Fund. Bruce Baker was a great bonsai tree artist and along with Deal Bull, helped make the art of bonsai be something wonderful that can be shared for future generations at the Frederik Meijer Gardens.
Episode Sponsor:
This episode is sponsored by Ping Identity. Ping is an identity solutions provider based out of the great state of Colorado in the awesome town that is Denver.
In this special end of summer episode, I sat down with Tyler Adams to talk about being in the trenches during the recent Crowdstrike incident and other interesting stories from the crazy summer. Tyler is an Information Security Analyst for Corewell Health. He works on the Security Business Engagement Team.
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In this episode I had a chance to have a candid conversation with Charles Henderson. Charles is a global managing partner at IBM and also happens to be the head of the X-Force team. IBM recently released the X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report for 2024.
While the report is delves into many different areas of Threat Intelligence, we concentrated on several key areas focused primarily on artificial intelligence:
Episode Charity:
The Corewell Health's involvement in the Blue Envelope Suicide Prevention Program. The School Blue Envelope Suicide Prevention Program trains middle and high school faculty and staff so that every school employee—from teachers to coaches and bus drivers—would know how to respond to a student who may express thoughts of suicide. The “Blue Envelope” protocol for crisis management was developed internally to quickly activate patient safety responses by communicating the code words "Blue Envelope."
Every person within a physician’s office became proficient in how to respond at a moment’s notice to a patient who may have thoughts of suicide. Through previous grant and foundation dollars, this program has been able to successfully train over 8,500 middle, high, and elementary school personnel across 156 schools within 53 different school districts. This training has resulted in over 2,000 interventions for students in crisis.
Episode Sponsor:
This episode is sponsored by IBM, who recently celebrated their 100th birthday! IBM is a computer solution company based out of Armonk, New York.
In this episode I had a chance to sit down in person with the always insightful and never dull cybersecurity leader, Jim Kuiphof. Jim is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Corewell Health. The topic for this casual conversation is Understanding Your Personal Risk Tolerance. More specifically, it speaks to understanding the different between your own risk tolerance and the business's risk tolerance.
Jim has talked on this recently at events like Cloud Con and the Digital Services Summit. His ideas for understanding how to balance personal and business has been a HUGE thing in my professional career.
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This talk is not only useful for people in the cybersecurity industry, but across all of information technology. It does matter what level you are at, this information can help you!
In this episode I had a chance to speak with Bryan 'Woody' Woodworth around simplifying and securing multi-cloud networking. Bryan is the Director of Solution Strategy for Aviatrix. As we are a few weeks into 2024 and the importance of understanding and utilizing multi-cloud strategies is becoming more and more apparent.
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Episode Charity:
Proceeds from this episode will be going towards the children's mental health program at Corewell Health Foundation.
Episode Sponsor:
Aviatrix is a Secure Cloud Networking company based out of Santa Clara California.
In this special episode we celebrate the 4th annual holiday fundraiser podcast. It is already a blessing to raise money for great causes all while raising security awareness for small and medium sized businesses. The topic for this episode is one that is super relevant for this day and age of Digital Transformation. However, in keeping with the format of #RealTalk, we are going to explore some 'real world' use cases for using Artificial Intelligence in Security in 2024.
The have two special guests and one awesome co-host for this episode. Kassandra Murphy is a Senior Consulting Solutions Engineer for Splunk. My other guest is Sanjay Kalra who is in Product Management for ZScaler.
My co-host for this episode is none other than Jim Kuiphof, who happens to be the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Corewell Health!
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Episode Sponsors:
Splunk - Splunk is a security observability solutions provider based out of San Francisco California.
Zscaler - ZScaler is a security solution provider based out of San Jose California.
Episode Charities:
North Kent Connect - North Kent Connect is a Christian organization committed to improving the lives of all people in northern Kent County by providing access to basic needs and promoting economic independence.
Toys for Tots West Michigan - The mission of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.
Reference Links:
If you are interested in the SURGe blog that Kassie talked about in the episode, you can find it Here.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get into the information security field? Have you thought how hard could it be? What about all of the big money I hear people make in this space? Well in this episode I talk with Mattalynn Darden and Esther Muchai about how hard it really is to break in.
If you are wondering how these two talented young women know, here is a little background on what they are currently doing and why it is relevant to the this episode's topic.
Mattalynn is an Information Security Intern at Lear Corporation and Esther is pursuing your Master's Degree in Cybersecurity at Grand Valley State University. Both of them share some of the struggles that they are currently having and I give some advice on how to possibly overcome them.
So, if you are thinking of entering the crazy, foggy world that is Information Security, then this episode is for you!
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*Disclaimer* Thoughts and opinion in this episode are solely myself or my guests and not necessarily reflective of our employers.
In this episode I had a chance to sit down with Matt Nelson and do the podcast from a very cool location. Matt is a Senior Security Architect for Guidepoint Security. The topic of our rant was centered around all of the things 'wrong' with cybersecurity sales and why it hurts everyone.
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Special shout outs to Maril Vernon, Michelle Beracy and Anthony Coggins!
In this episode I talk with Lloyd 'Lucky' Guyot and Alex O'Meera about The Center for Internet Security's Critical Security Controls. Lloyd is a Security Advisor for Optiv and President of the Grand Rapids ISSA Chapter. Alex is a Security Analyst for Stack Overflow and Secretary of the Grand Rapids ISSA Chapter.
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Episode Sponsor:
Grand Rapids ISSA Chapter (with special thanks to Optiv). The GR-ISSA is the local chapter of the Information Systems Security Association.
Episode Charity:
The charity for the month of November is the Corewell Health Foundation. More specifically, the money will be going to assist children with various mental health challenges.
In this episode I had a chance to speak with Chris Jordan and Al Wissigner about where a small and medium sized business (SMB) should start their security journey. This is especially important in this day and age of the ever expanding cloud infrastructure and Software as a Service (SaaS) models. Both of these fine gentlemen work for Fluency and have a TON of experience working SMBs.
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Episode Charity:
October's selected charity is called the Both Hands. Both Hands is an organization that helps local widows with chores/projects that are hard to do on their own, all while raising money for a family to adopt a child.
Episode Sponsor:
This episode was sponsored by Fluency. Fluency is a modern security operations platform that can handle today's agile environments. They are based out of Rockville, Maryland.
The podcast currently has 105 episodes available.