Real CyberSecurity

Greg and Bill discuss how breach disclosure laws could play out while discussing the recent events around SUNBURST, water treatment as targets, and the critical CISO skill of just walking around and talking to people.

Bill reports that Mastodon lives on and how awful Twitter is, we talk about the SEC complaint re: the SolarWinds CISO, and Greg reports on his Digital Fight Club experience in Dallas (and how awesome it was)

Bill and Greg nominate their candidates for biggest fails in cybersecurity in 2023 - we focus on the ideas or technologies that were hyped and just didn't deliver.

Cybersecurity for elections is likely going to be hitting the news more often. Bill and Greg discuss the big picture issues of election security, why governments struggle with election security at all (spoiler: it isn't because technology isn't available), and a brief discussion of rural and small jurisdictions. Here's the link to the poll book systems graphic we discuss during the episode:https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/security-considerations-electronic-poll-book-systems-itsm10101

An update of the state of AI cybersecurity (including the hype) and a roundup of noteworthy breaches in the news. Also our thoughts on Splunk.

This week Bill and Greg dig into posture management - not the chair - but the posture of assets, people, and identities and such. We discuss why infrastructure and operating system companies won't ever make best in breed security, and why infrastructure isn't self-defending.

Discussion on risk, GRC, and 3rd party risk with former Gartner analyst who is now with Black Kite.

Greg covers the new SEC rules for disclosing cybersecurity incidents, and our celebrity reporter Bill has a brush with greatness in the personage of Jonathan Frakes.

This week in Real Cybersecurity we celebrate the 365 day countdown to Skynet, the Guidelines for the National Cybersecurity Strategy, startup funding challenges, & recent hack news including Microsoft and Revolut.

A real treat for you today, as Bill brought in his friend Spaff for a great chat. One highlight was hearing about his newest book, Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail UsAmazon link to his new book: https://a.co/d/3SCd1nGhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Spafford