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.

Putting their money where their mouths are, they have invested in courses, bought products and attended seminars that claim to show people what they need to do to become successful in the world of social media, property investment and crypto-currency amongst other schemes.  They take a serious but light-hearted look at the global success industry and have broken down the psychology, methodology and mindset that leads millions to invest time and money into these schemes.

If I had to take a bet before Hacker Summer Camp in Las Vegas 2019 I wouldn’t have put my money on “collaboration” being the topic that, more than anything, spontaneously came up during the many conversations we had. Sure, there were some hints from conversations we had prior to the event, and I was hoping that sooner than later it would become one of the core topics to leverage and improve the future of cybersecurity. However, I didn’t expect it to come this early and to present itself this strongly as a message throughout the whole week.

Not only did I succeed in bringing Katie and Fred together for this podcast, but I also got a chance to meet Ryan Kovar [Principal Security Strategist at Splunk]—who happened to be presenting on ATT&CK with Katie that week. I asked Ryan to join us for the conversation as well. He agreed. BONUS!