Barry sits down with us and discusses his long tenure in the industry as a CISO for government entity to a CISO for a healthcare entity. The conversation transforms into how similar security challenges are across all industries. For CISO's to be effective it is important to learn the business of business. We dive into the variables of presenting to different board audiences and opportunities to tune the message. This is a value packed session you won't want to miss!

Robert Wood, CSO at SourceClear (acquired recently by CA Veracode), speaks about becoming an empathetic security leader for the business. Exploring context for different perspectives across the business given a variety of responsibilities and stakeholders across an enterprise landscape.

Sitting down at Target Field in Minneapolis patiently waiting for the season to kick in full speed we caught up with Jason Meszaros of the Minnesota Twins Baseball Club. There is a lot of content packed into this episode including IoT, Big Data, Security Intelligence and enhancing business value through innovation. The examples set by Jason in this episode can be applied to many different businesses where we cover how security and technology innovation drives customer engagement and business success.

Sharon Smith from C-Suite Results speaks about her experience providing security leadership to companies and lessons learned through these interactions. The discussion evolves from presenting meaningful information for business leaders to negotiating a CISO's reporting structure prior to accepting the job offer. You won't want to miss this engaging episode! Learn more about C-Suite Results (http://www.c-suiteresults.com/about-us/)

We connect with Christophe Veltsos, Cyber Risk Strategist for Prudent Security on the current curriculum of cyber security in colleges and universities. How to groom up and coming CISO's and what a successful CISO in the future looks like. Together we delve into healthy skepticism for Boards and the C-Suite and why this is healthy level of skepticism is increasingly important with today's cyber risk landscape. Reach out to Chris Veltsos on Twitter @DrInfoSec.

We continue our dialogue around cyber security response and dive deep into crisis communications when dealing with a negative cyber event. Loren Dealy Mahler speaks with us about her experience managing multiple audiences with her work on Capitol Hill and how this translates into the private sector. We dig into the importance of planning and also tackle the crisis exercise and the intended benefits from them. You can reach Loren through her website (https://www.dealymahlerstrategies.com). Enjoy the show!

In EP#3 we speak with Charlie Langdon, CEO of Vault Data a cognitive software company. Charlie has tenure from companies such as GE, NEC, Active Voice and is an author and advisor. In this episode we hear a CEO's perspective on managing cyber risk and relate this to how Equifax executives could have handled the breach. We also explore how security leaders can interact and inform the CEO regularly of current security performance as well as developing a swat team to manage and respond to major incidents. We promise you will hear a perspective not commonly shared!

We begin the conversation with Wayne Sadin (who is an NACD Board Governance Fellow) about his role at Affinitas Life. Wayne offers both a technology leadership perspective as well as a Board of Director perspective on cyber risk and cybersecurity. Wayne introduced us to the concept of a QTE (Qualified Technology Expert). Wayne brings to us a much needed view point on board perceptions and understanding of the cyber risk landscape and offers up suggestions to enhance the experience for both the cybersecurity leader and board members mutually.

This is a short introduction describing the business of security podcast series with Chad Boeckmann and Ed Snodgrass. If you are wondering what this podcast is about listen to this!

In this inaugural episode of Business of Security, we caught up with Alex Wood at the Minneapolis SecureWorld Conference. Alex is the Chief Information Security Officer of Pulte Financial and co-founder of podcast Colorado=Security. Alex shares with us how he got into the industry, his thought process and approach to managing security within an organization along with how the industry could improve.