The Oval Table

Bill Macfarlane discusses how to have what you need in place to grow your business.  The people - the owner can't be the smartest person in the room - the products, infrastructure, supply, a five-year strategic plan and people with the talent to drive the business.

After the last discussion with Cyber Security Warrior, Curt Vincent at #theOvalTable, we have seen one of his predictions come true as Russia is taking out most of the Ukraine power grid. Curt has been involved with the cyber wars since 1985. Spending 20 years in the regular Army and 16 more in the Reserve Army, he was a pioneer in establishing cyber security protocols and procedures and in identifying attackers, including hostile Nation States and Criminal Organizations. After 9/11, he was called back into uniform for two years to serve as the Operations Officer for the entire Army Operations Network and Security Center. He has held high level cyber security positions at Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and several Cyber Security Consulting organizations.

This is Part 2 of a two-part discussion.

Issues discussed: Vulnerabilities from the #Internet_of_Things (refrigerators, lights and other appliances and #devices in your home and cars), the speed of development, sleeper bots, the speed of development, the lack of national cyber borders, combating #ransomeware, taking maintaining operations into consideration with your backup strategy (how fast can you recover from an event), the move back to centralized systems from distributed systems, and the value of VPN’s.

Cyber Security Warrior, Curt Vincent joins us at the Table. Curt has been involved with the cyber wars since 1985: you know, before you ever heard of the internet and about 30 years before it was called Cyber Security. Spending 20 years in the regular Army and 16 more in the Reserve Army, he was a pioneer in establishing cyber security protocols and procedures and in identifying attackers, including hostile Nation States and Criminal Organizations. After 9/11, he was called back into uniform for two years to serve as the Operations Officer for the entire Army Operations Network and Security Center.

This is Part 1 of a two-part discussion.

Issues discussed: Password Vault, Trojan Horses, Bots, Slaves serving Crypto Currencies, Credit Cards and the fact that all your business needs is 1 person not following protocols and procedures, to cause a cyber catastrophe.

Contact Curt at: Cyber Assurance Associates

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