The Security Strategist

Doing more with less. The art of optimising your cybersecurity strategy and resources to achieve effective protection against cyber threats. 

From assessing and prioritising assets to utilising open source tools, understaffed and overstretched cybersecurity teams are looking at ways to maximise what they’re able to do. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Head of Content Matt Harris speaks to Chris Cochran, Advisory CISO and Chief Evangelist at Huntress, to discuss:

• Doing more with less - and why that’s necessary
• Equipping teams to be proactive 
• Cybersecurity challenges specific to healthcare industry

Securing Software as a Service (SaaS) applications is crucial to protect sensitive data, ensure user privacy, and maintain the overall integrity of the service.

From data encryption and identity management to network security and a solid incident response plan, there are some crucial things to consider when employing SaaS as a part of your workflow. 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Richard Stiennon speaks to Guy Guzner, CEO and Co-Founder of Savvy Security, to discuss:

• Security challenges with SaaS
• Key worries from CISOs and CIOs
• The problem with existing solutions today

Enabling the business to leverage data while preventing breaches are top priorities for CxOs and boards across industries. 

However, data security has long relied on legacy architectures and outdated approaches that were developed to protect data on-premises. 

By harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically learn and holistically protect a company's unique data, new AI-powered data security platforms are revolutionising data security for the cloud era.

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Richard Stiennon speaks to Roland Cloutier, the former Global Chief Security Officer of TikTok & ByteDance, to discuss: 

• Social media and data privacy conversation 
• Balancing leveraging data with preventing breaches
• Intelligently harnessing AI and ML for your data strategy

No one knows how far gen AI can go in the enterprise but we know that it will be massive. Future platforms will certainly streamline and ensure efficiency, accuracy, and impact. 

But there are many questions, including whether open source models perform as well as proprietary research? Will data compliance continue to be the main challenge the industry faces? What does the right to be forgotten mean in a world where gen AI exists? 

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Richard Stiennon and Philippe Botteri, Partner at Accel, discuss:

• The world of data security
• Open source models vs proprietary research
• Data compliance today

Accel is a proud partner of Cyera, read more below about how they're addressing the most pressing problems in cloud security.

Zero Trust is a security concept and framework that assumes no trust, even among users and systems inside the corporate network. 

Traditionally, network security models operated under the assumption that everything inside the corporate network could be trusted and that once someone gained access to the network, they could be trusted to access various resources.

This is no longer viable in 2023 and beyond - with the increase of sophisticated cyber attacks, denying by default has become the norm for companies looking to secure their sensitive data.

• What it means to have a true zero trust strategy
• Zero trust challenges
• MFA and the future of network security

XDR isn’t just a fancy term or the latest trend; it represents consolidating security tools, enhancing defences against sophisticated attacks, and reducing response time to safeguard against data breaches.

Starting from a solid foundation of centralized logs, organizations can use XDR as part of their cybersecurity strategy to detect breaches across many different sources of data. 

If we look specifically at the financial industry, XDR can be key in stopping attacks rapidly before they cause too much damage. Through reducing complexity and providing stack-wide visibility, SMBs within the banking sector can solve common challenges like understaffed teams and daunting compliance requirements.

• Security pain points in the BFSI space
• The difference between EDR and XDR
• Choosing the right XDR strategy for your business

It’s officially the spooky season - but something scarier than ghosts, vampires and werewolves is striking fear into the hearts of cybersecurity leaders across the globe. 

The unique challenges in the security space have been forcing industry leaders to switch up the ways they operate, specifically in the MSP space.

What does it mean to be a cybersecurity leader today? How have cyber attackers been changing their approach? 

• Current state of cybersecurity leadership
• Challenges faced by CISOs and IT Directors are facing
• Cybersecurity horror stories

Rapidly accelerating technology advances, the recognized value of data, and increasing data literacy are changing what it means to be "data driven." 

The ability to leverage data for day-to-day activities improves decision making, and fosters better innovation, collaboration, and communication. 

With deep insight into the data they have, and the confidence that their data is secure, Cyera is enabling enterprises to leverage data to create truly differentiated customer and employee experiences.

In today’s episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Richard Stiennon speaks to Yotam Segev, CEO and Co-Founder at Cyera, to discuss:

• Data security 
• Why this is still a challenge
• Striking a balance between creating new steams 

Monitoring cyber risk is essential in today's interconnected landscape. 

Involving continuous assessment of vulnerabilities, threat detection, and response readiness, companies should be looking at the best way to protect themselves.

But is offence really the best defence? Does a proactive stance provide more of a formidable cybersecurity posture than a reactive stance? And how are the brightest minds in security mastering the art of minimising damage and downtime?

In today’s episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Dr. Eric Cole is joined by Michael Quattrochi, SVP of Defensive Security at CyberMaxx, to discuss:

• Offence fueling defence
• Monitoring cyber risk
• Common exploitation trends

Privacy laws are legal regulations that aim to protect the privacy and personal information of individuals. 

Designed to govern the collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal data by businesses, the primary objectives of privacy laws are to ensure that individuals have control over their personal information and to prevent its misuse.

But how have these laws developed over time? And between website friction to removal requests, what complications arise with privacy law compliance and how can these be more efficiently navigated?

In this episode of the EM360 Podcast, Analyst Richard Stiennon speaks to Meaghan McCluskey, Associate General Counsel at TrustArc, about:

• Where privacy laws came from, and how they got to where they are now
• Penalties for non-compliance
• Downsides of privacy law compliance