What you are about to listen to is a new episode of THE CYBER SOCIETY PODCAST SERIES with Marco Ciappelli, which, this time, also happens to be part of the DIVERSE IT PODCAST SERIES with Selena Templeton.

While in Las Vegas, for Black Hat and DEFCON we had a great conversation with Bryson Bort, Founder and CEO of GRIMM.

We discussed how GRIMM approaches diversity and inclusion, and how companies can really walk the talk if they put their heart into it. We also covered more societal, psychological and philosophical topics around cybersecurity for large companies, small businesses, and most importantly... users.

In the end, it wasn't as scary as we thought; actually, we had a great time.

Listen to this podcast and hopefully, you will learn something while having a laugh or two.

Thank you GRIMM!

Marco Ciappelli met with Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic, to discuss the results of the company’s first annual 2017 State of Cybersecurity Metrics Report, 

The report analyzes key findings from a Security Measurement Index (SMI) benchmark Survey of more than 400 global business and security executives around the world.

According to the report, most companies worldwide are failing to measure cybersecurity effectiveness and performance.

More than half of the 400 respondents in the survey, 58 percent, scored an “F” or “D” grade when evaluating their efforts to measure their cybersecurity investments and performance against best practices.

While this sounds bad for big companies it gets even worst when we look at small business. For example: In 60% of the cases they cannot recover from a serious cyber attack.

Listen to this story recorded on the Expo Floor at Black Hat USA 2017 - pardon the background noise.

Today’s conversation is with Ashwin Krishnan, Senior Vice President of Products & Strategy at HyTrust.

After a great podcast about the Moral Compass for Autonomous Vehicles that Ashwin had with Sean Martin, Marco Ciappelli took over the torch and invited Ashwin to join the Cyber Society Podcast on ITSPmagazine.

The two met during Black Hat 2017 in Las Vegas, a day after we all learned that Rumba Vacuum Cleaners weren't just collecting dust, bread crumbs and pets hair; oh no, they were collecting map floors of people homes, and who knows what else.

Seriously, what is going on with all this big data harvesting? It is so cheap to do nowadays that companies do it anyway - either they need the data for their product or not. The commercial value may be huge for marketers shortly. But who is allowing companies to collect information about our homes, our cars, our lifestyle, and overall our privacy? How can a user opt-out or opt-in, and decide something that doesn’t even know about?

Listen to this conversation, and you will start getting the picture of the mess we are in with the Internet of Things right now. 

It is complicated, but we need to empower the user, we need knowledge, and we need a Moral Compass and strong ethics.

The Cyber Society needs trust and transparency, and it needs it right now.

Following her live panel during Black Hat USA 2017, Booz Allen Hamilton EVP (plus talent champion and innovation officer!) Angela Messer, sat down with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton, host of Diverse IT, to chat about how her company is tackling diversity and inclusion. Tune in to hear her thoughts and experience on being the “SheEO” speaker at a STEM high school, how their CEO walks the talk by being one of 200 members of CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, why diversity is about so much more than just building a diverse workforce, and the importance of putting concrete programs, with goals, metrics and outcomes, in place.

Why is it important to audit and meet compliance for your ERP systems? Alex Horan chats with ITSPmagazine's Sean Martin as he describes some of the requirements for meeting compliance, using the Global Data Protection Regulation as a model for purposes of discussion. What data do you have, and whose data is it? What are the requirements to protect it from unauthorized access AND what are the requirements for removal of the data when the owner of the data requests.

Cybersecurity Diversity Foundation and WGU (Western Governors University) co-hosted a lively reception at Black Hat on Tuesday evening to share an exciting announcement: they are partnering up to offer two full master’s degrees in cybersecurity. ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton, host of the Diverse IT podcast, managed to snag CDF Founder Mischel Kwon, who is also Founder and CEO of MKA Cyber, to expand upon this great news. CDF’s mission is to support educational and workplace diversity in the field of cybersecurity. Listen to this 4-minute podcast for more information and how to apply.

Tim Jarrett, CA Veracode, talks about application security with Sean Martin during Black Hat USA 2017. What are the drivers behind organizations choosing to invest in application security and who should lead the application security program? How do companies get on top of the problem of insecure components being used in applications? Tim shares his thoughts with us, tying it all together with the Internet of Things and the impact connected devices have on society - due to the vulnerabilities introduced at the application layer.

Following the ITSPmagazine and BrightTALK live panel session at Black Hat USA 2017 which covered the impact the Internet of Things has on society, two of the expert panelists - Gary Hayslip from Webroot and Ted Harrington from ISE - chat with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli about the Internet of Things and their impact on businesses of all shapes and sizes.

To watch the panel, please visit:

https://itspmagazine.com/itsp-tv/the-side-effects-of-the-internet-of-things-a-live-experts-panel-at-black-hat

ThePLUG Founder and CEO Sherrell Dorsey chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton for the Diverse IT podcast about creating the only daily tech newsletter that covers black founders, startups, investors and technologists in tech news. Tune in to hear about how her mom encouraged her to attend a coding and internship program at the age of 14, the catalyst that led her to finally create ThePLUG, how she inspires and supports African Americans and women, and how her own experience as a tech writer has motivated her to change the tech narrative for people of color.

How did access to computers turn from a need, to a want, to an expectation and assumption? What drove these shifts? How has the technology held up as its use has changed over time?

We’ve got some answers, this week on The Tech Effect. Sam Visner, Georgetown University School of Foreign Services adjunct professor and Vice President/Manager of Cybersecurity and Resilience at ICF International guides us through the history of computing, from analog tables that calculated torpedo launch settings to the first networks, the monopoly and break-up of AT&T, and the rise of the commercial internet. We also have a few exciting announcements-- so tune in, and join the conversation at #TheTechEffect.