The project we talk about on this podcast is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and will explore how technologies can be used to promote or thwart flourishing through conversations with people with disabilities.

In this fireside chat, Sean Martin discusses the profession of cybersecurity, past, present, and future with Dr. Ron Ross from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Only a small segment of the industry has gotten on board with the idea that they own the risk associated with the end-to-end supply chain that makes their business run. Many focus on their internal security posture, leaving the rest of the technology and information chain up for grabs when it comes to exploiting a weakness in a system, a service, or a partner’s employee’s user behavior.

Operationalizing security and risk doesn’t have to be tedious or discouraging. If done correctly, it can be advantageous and help the business build and deliver useful and fun services — securely, of course. This is precisely the philosophy that Brian Drotleff and his team at KeyBank adopt to approach and tackle the development of their security and risk management programs.

In this conversation, we discuss the history, current state, and the future of identity, passwords, and overall access control in the digital world.

If we want to seriously think about risk and risk management, there’s no better place to get a real sense of what it is than in the healthcare space — if something goes awry with a piece of technology here, the consequences can be dire.

Sometimes the best way to understand a topic is to talk about it while borrowing a different perspective, looking at it through a different set of lenses—either familiar ones or those that take us far outside of our comfort zone.

We had a fun, in-depth, and educational conversation with Zully, taking full advantage of being in the story-telling world of W. Disney, and even making some connections with his creativity, legacy, and business acumen.

Digital technologies are driving significant transformations in business, government, and society. It’s the data that is fueling this transformation. Because of this, almost every company is a technology company; even when the main business or product has nothing to do with technology. The velocity of innovation can be mind-boggling—and with it comes an equal amount of mind-boggling risk.

Martin shares some stories about how organizations are changing the way they define and implement privileged access management solutions, turning the technology—and their operational infrastructure—on its side business to better support business requirements without opening up the gates too wide nor closing them down too much.