The SafeHouse

Over the last 11 weeks, guest co-host Alex Waintraub joined Jeff Edwards to discuss and explore the 10 most common flaws in Incident Response Plans. Each week, they had an industry expert guest come on the podcast to dive into each of those flaws in an effort to help Small & Medium sized businesses understand them and avoid them. In this session, Alex and Jeff discuss the 10 Flaws series, highlights, and lessons learned.

Michael Wilkes, Chief Information Security Officer, Resilience Champion, Advisor, and Board Member joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the tenth common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of actually executing the plan. Listen in to these experts share insights and examples about the cost and impact of not executing your plan when there's an incident.

Paul Caron, Head of Cybersecurity - Americas at S-RM joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to share insights about testing your Incident Response Plan. Failing to test your plan is the ninth common flaw in Incident Response Plans. Listen in to these experts to learn the importance of doing Table Top Exercises and ensuring your Incident Response Plan is tested before an incident happens.

Matt Lee, Senior Director of Security and Compliance with Pax8 joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the eighth common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of failing to consider the Worst-Case Scenario. Listen in to these experts in this excellent session to learn the importance of considering the worst-case scenario in your Incident Response Plan.

John Sharpe, Sr. Manager, Global Security Operations Center joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to discuss in detail the seventh common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of ensuring your plan is current and ready. Listen in to these experts to learn the importance of ensuring that your Incident Response Plan is up to date, complete and ready at any time.

Israel Bryski, Chief Information Security Officer at MIO Partners, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to discuss the sixth common flaw in Incident Response Plans which is improperly leveraging external expertise. Hear what these experts have to say about how to properly leverage external expertise to maximize their effectiveness in your Incident Response.

Stu Panensky, Founding Partner at Law Firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the Legal and Regulatory ramifications in Incident Response Plans. Not ensuring the Legal and Regulatory aspects in an Incident Response Plan is the Fifth Common Flaw. Listen in to these experts to learn about why the legal and regulatory issues are so critical in Incident Repsonse Plans.

Randy Pargman, Director of Threat Detection at Proofpoint, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to examine the issue of not having a solid Communication Strategy and Solution which is the fourth common flaw in Incident Response Plans. Listen in to these experts to learn what can happen if you don't have a Communication Strategy and things to consider when designing it.

Aaron Goldstein, VP of Incident Response and Field Information Security Officer at Todyl, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the third common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of having organizational silos. Listen in to these experts to learn the dangers of organizational silos to your incident response plan and ways to mitigate and eliminate them.

Frank Angiolelli, Founder and Managing Director of mSOC, author and Cybersecurity expert joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the second common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of not defining roles & responsibilities for a cyber event. Listen in to these experts to learn the importance of assigning roles & responsibilities ahead of time as part of your planning, and the considerations in those assignments..