Officially granted the title within a company in 1995, the CISO role is relatively new in Infosec's grand scheme. Since this first attribution, many have taken the job - and the reigns - to shape and define the responsibilities, but it looks like it is still a work in progress. With each step comes new challenges, new paths, new opportunities.

Sometimes we wonder if the reason the gap in the cybersecurity workforce exists and that there is a lack of basic technical knowledge and education - even for the daily-life activities and everyday gadgets we use - is due to the fact that our school systems can’t keep up with the technological advancements of our society.

Jenny is joined by Ian Murphy of LMNTRX, where they discuss how the shiny security things have changed during Covid19, the premiere league, conferences and events and fitness regimes.

At its core, a Smart City is a collection of technological responses to the growing demands, challenges, and complexities of improving the quality of life for billions of people now living in urban centers across the world. The movement to create smarter cities is still in its infancy, but ambitious and creative projects in all types of cities―big and small―around the globe are beginning to make a big difference.

SMBs’ Top Ten CyberSecurity Misconceptions

Episode Seven | Compliance with industry standards is sufficient for a security strategy

The last time we got together with ReversingLabs was during RSA Conference San Francisco 2020. Back then, we spoke with Mario Vuksan And Tyson Whitten to learn about how the black box of machine learning and artificial intelligence is giving InfoSec professionals a few headaches. A lot has remained the same on this front. Still, a lot has changed since then for many organizations’ SOC teams: work from home environments, disruptive digital and business transformation, rapid cloud deployments, and the ever-dreaded “do more with less budget” operational tactic — to mention just a few.

As a former CISO in many industries, Paul Assaad has experienced the need for information and system security in a variety of scenarios - but they all seem to come back to the need for resiliency in what ultimately presents itself as critical infrastructure in one shape, size, form, or another: public transportation, banking/finance, and aerospace.

People around the world rely on local, state, national - and sometimes international - services enabled by critical infrastructure and related devices, systems, and applications. Sometimes they realize it - sometimes not. Many times, the services are taken for granted, only noticed when they go offline or otherwise malfunction.

The bottom line, humanity is dependent upon critical infrastructure and we need to take an active role to ensure all stakeholders and leaders recognize the cyber risk it possesses such that proper risk mitigation, attack protection and incident response measures are identified and implemented.

Software runs the world. It runs our businesses, It runs the shops we visit. It helps produce the products we buy. It automates our homes. It controls our planes, trains, and automobiles. It even runs the International Space Station and recent trips to the ISS and Mars.

The ISSA International Luminaries Series | Winn Schwartau

When connecting with Winn Schwartau, it's never a dull moment and we find that we ALWAYS have a lively chat that can take many unexpected twists and turns. This conversation with Winn demonstrates this in every way possible.