teissPodcast - Cracking Cyber Security

This week, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic I thought it appropriate to focus on the cyber security threats brought on by the crisis. 

What are the threats to your organisation? What are the scams to watch out for? Will there be an increase in insider threat activity?  

On this week's teissPodcast Andrew Tsonchev, Director of Technology at Darktrace, outlines the cyber security challenges for us during these uncertain times, as well as sharing some excellent advice we can all adopt now. 

This week we tackle the debate around encryption on the teissPodcast. 

I hope you’re keeping healthy and sane in these unsettling times triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’re cooped up at home, in need of some distraction – then listen to this podcast with Jake Moore, cyber security specialist at ESET.

We dissect the debate around encryption and discuss government policy on backdoors, whether government mandated backdoors combined with data protection legislation can work together and find a happy medium and how citizens’ privacy can be protected in this data hungry world.

A bit of a special one for you this week on the teissPodcast – a recording of the live security leaders’ panel at teissLondon2020.

The panellists are security researcher, Leigh-Anne Galloway, Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at Communisis, Michelle Giffrey, and Thom Langford, Founder TL(2) Security.

Articles referenced during the discussion include one about hackers exploiting vulnerabilities at petrol station card machines and another on a scam which cost a British housing charity $1 dollars.

 Michele Hanson, CISO at software company Micro Focus, features on the teissPodcast this week. I met Michele at cyber security conference, Cyber Connect UK, where she discussed the value of listening to improve security, the importance of role modelling to drive diversity of talent and learning to run, compromised…She states on her LinkedIn profile that she’s an “advocate in the promotion of bringing a positive and modern culture of cyber security”...So my first question to her was to tell me more about the “positive” and “modern” culture that she promotes.  

This week on the teiss Security Leaders’ Roundtable Podcast former CISO – Thom Langford, Founder, TL(2) Security, and Data Protection Consultant – Bilal Ghafoor, meet head to head. 

There’s a lot covered in this episode – from the misconceptions about the CISO and DPO roles, to the challenges around privacy and data protection. We talk ethics, language and whether the ICO is all carrot and no stick…

Presenter: Anna Delaney

Music: Light the Fuze, Audio Network and Late Night (Loops), Joseph McDade

It’s back to Nashville, Tennessee this week on the teissPodcast as I speak with Chris Hallenbeck, CISO for the Americas at Tanium, the endpoint security and systems management company.

I caught up with Chris at Tanium’s recent annual conference – Converge – where we discussed the industry’s need for critical thinkers, mentors, as well as the challenges around visibility, human nature and the "unchanging" threat landscape.

Before joining Tanium in 2016, Chris worked for six years on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team…so I was eager to probe and hear his views on the current the state of cyber security.

What is behavioural economics, and how can it derail successful security training? That’s our topic this week on the teissPodcast with Bridget Kenyon, DIS EMEA CISO and Information Security Programmes, at Thales.

I caught up with Bridget at the security conference Cyber Connect UK back in November. Bridget never fails to fascinate me with her ability to talk about any topic in great detail and this time she delved into why security training isn’t working in its current form – instead of working against people’s natural behaviours, we need to work with them. In fact, trying to get people to change their behaviours is, quite frankly, useless.

Bridget explains how cyber security can work for and with people, and how this isn’t about win/lose battles…cyber security is an infinite game.

Here Bridget is, giving a brief of what behavioural economics is…

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/cracking-cyber-security-podcast-from-teiss/id1378994502?mt=2

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/business-reporter/cracking-cyber-security-podcast

Presenter: Anna Delaney

Music: Light the Fuze, Audio Network

On this week’s teiss Security Leaders Roundtable Podcast - Shan Lee, CISO, Transferwise and Thom Langford, Founder TL(2) Security Ltd debate whether a CISO can make a significant change to an organisation’s culture in just 18 months (the average time a CISO stays in a company). They also discuss the Travelex breach, the spate of ransomware attacks against US state institutions and their security predictions for 2020! Please note that this was recorded on January 3rd 2020 – before it was confirmed that the Travelex cyber-attack was indeed a ransomware attack. 

Lots of excellent advice from both Shan and Thom and I hope you enjoy.

Music: Light the Fuze, Audio Network and Late Night (Loops), Joseph McDade

On this week’s podcast we speak with Chris Hodson, CISO for cyber security provider, Tanium.

I met fellow Brit in Nashville, at the end of last year, at Tanium’s annual conference. Previously CISO at Zscaler, Chris is one of the movers and shakers of the industry – as well as his role at Tanium, Chris is a prolific writer and vlogger about all things security, and he's named as one of the 'Top 10 Cyber Risk Experts to Follow' by Vulcan Cyber. In between conference sessions, I sat with Chris to discuss his cyber security predictions for 2020, how he prevents self burnout, and how he goes about implementing a culture of security in the organisations he works with.

Presenter: Anna Delaney

Music: Light the Fuze, Audio Network

On this week’s teiss podcast I am joined by Helen Rabe, Global CISO for biotech company, Abcam.

I met up with Helen at Cyber Connect UK Conference at the end of last year where we discussed resiliency – both personal and for business, the language of security and how not to alienate your end-users, and how to be the constant eye in the storm as a security leader. Helen oozes warmth and charisma and had plenty of advice to divulge in the interview, so I hope you enjoy.

Presenter: Anna Delaney

Music: Light the Fuze, Audio Network