We’ve often heard that it’s a good idea to approach and counter cyber threats by having an understanding for how the adversary thinks. Rick Howard, CSO for Palo Alto Networks, takes this concept to the next level with what he describes as the "adversary playbook;” a concept he applies to his own information security program. During his chat with ITSPmagazine’s Sean Martin, Rick categorizes the various types of cybercrime and the 6 steps criminals take to commit the crimes. Rick also shares a personal view into how he entered the field of information security, citing the Morris Worm and a book called the Cuckoo’s Egg as two key drivers behind his decision to help fight cybercrime.

Pravin Kothari, CEO and President of CipherCloud, and Vamshi Sriperumbudur, VP of Marketing from CipherCloud, chat with ITSPmagazine's Sean Martin, providing a great overview for the pending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming out of the European Union (EU). The discussion includes the positive impact this regulation will have on the EU citizens, essentially giving them back control over their own privacy -- as well as the impact it will have on business all around the world as they have to enable those controls in the applications and services and related data collection points through which they serve the EU citizens.

Join us for the webinar series on ITSPmagazine here: https://itspmagazine.com/itsp-chronicles/gdpr-compliance-by-may-2018-what-are-you-worried-about

As deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office - Cyber Crime Division, Rouman Ebrahim sees a lot of cybercrime. In this interview with ITSPmagazine's Sean Martin, Ebrahim describes some of the trends he sees. Here are a few examples he covers during the interview:

- Former street gang members are moving into cybercrime - it appears to be a very lucrative business.

- The DA's office is seeing a lot of "credit line bust out” cases and combination cases involving identity theft and fuel theft; delays in regulatory compliance at fuel stations coupled with advancements in technology makes these crimes easier for criminals to commit.

- When is the only time you should use your debit card? Ebrahim shares his advice plus offers some other tips to help protect your identity, credit line, and your ability to access your cash.

These are some of the highlights from the conversation Bill Cheswick had with Sean Martin:

- Not a lot has changed in ~25 years since Cheswick co-created the first firewall

- Who is liable when the IoT attacks and spews blue, oily smoke all over the Internet?

- What’s more important - worrying about cybersecurity or making the most of connected devices to automate the home … or the home farm?

- What does the future look like with the wide-spread use of the digital butler?

Fresh off the Women In Security panel at the ISSA-LA Summit, Shea McHugh chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton about her unique experience of not experiencing gender discrimination in the tech industry. As the only security analyst at Intermax Networks, she can also boast that 100% of her security team is female. Shea discusses why her company manages to attract such a diverse and talented team, the positive and negative aspects of the hiring process, and the most common question she gets asked about getting into the security field.

Eward Driehuis, Chief Research Officer at SecureLink and IT veteran of over 20 years, chats with ITSPmagazine's Sean Martin to provide a European perspective into the WannaCry ransomware outbreak. Did the cybercriminals bite off more than they can chew? Have they created a larger mess than they'd like, attracting law enforcement from all over the world? In any case, there's no denying the impact is huge - so what can your company do to protect itself? Find out more in this riveting interview.

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Paul San Soucie, with nearly 2 decades of experience working in the information security industry, chats with ITSPmagazine’s Sean Martin to shed some light on the cyberthreats schools and universities face as a result of the widespread use of social media. Leveraging his experience with encryption technologies, social media, the dark web, and collaboration with law enforcement to prevent cybercrimes before they happen. Paul describes how behavioral analytics can be applied to historical social media content to identify the types of threats faced by students and faculty, giving us some interesting insights into how threats are identified and false claims and false positive are weeded out.

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Even companies that aren’t running an online business can have serious negative effects on their business from their customers that do. In this part 2 of 3 series, Paul San Soucie chats with ITSPmagazine's Sean Martin to discuss the impact social media can have on business and how a lack of data integrity can change the direction of a cyber investigation. When it comes to social media as a means to conduct cyber extortion... do you know who your adversaries are?

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Paul San Soucie chats with ITSPmagazine’s Sean Martin about the value and challenges with machine learning in detecting cybercrime. Some of the key points discussed in this segment:

- Context is key

- Algorithms need to be tuned

- Languages and slang change the game in detection and forensics

- Words in different order matter

- Phrases vs words matter

- Emojis can be used as cipher text (really?)

Chris Roberts chats with ITSPmagazine's Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin about raising awareness and helping people use their technology more securely. We discuss perceptions and responsibility and how machine learning and artificial intelligence can help us be more secure if we surrender ourselves to it. The question is, are we already surrendering too much? We also ponder two other ideas... is the word "security" lost on society - would the word "safety" suit us better? And, last but not least, is there a big marketing value in having a certified "CyberSafe" product?