The Virtual CISO Moment

From September 27, 2022 - Cy Sturdivant, Director at Forvis (Cybersecurity Division), joins us to discuss his path from accounting and finance to cybersecurity and the audit field. We dive into controls, the Three Line of Defense model, and how audit as the third line helps organizations achieve and maintain a solid information security posture.

Brent Forrest is a leader, architect, and strategic advisor of holistic cybersecurity. He has developed security programs across Oil & Gas, Financial, Insurance, and Construction industries including architecture of endpoint visibility/protection, managed detection and response (MDR), and security awareness as well as leading real-world cyberbreach response efforts. He is a graduate of Western Governors University and a holder of CISSP, C|CISO, and other technology certifications.

Malware attack on CircleCI, FortiOS vuln exploited, RTU ransomware attack, Lifelock compromise, Cloudflare and .gov, how and why to improve security culture, and nine top-of-mind issues for CISOs in 2023.

US air grounding due to one engineer's error, vuln in chromium browsers, Citrix vuln, Tech Republic bundle offer, 10 penetration testing decision factors, and why soft skills are necessary in infosec.

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From September 20, 2022: Adam Bricker has led many career lives, from working on Tomahawk missiles to cofounding the Carolina Cyber Center, focused on hardening community resources and continuing education to address the nation's critical cybersecurity talent shortfall. He currently provides consulting services for businesses in high tech, IT-enabled and emerging markets as the founder of ePower Learning, and his testimony of faith in relation to his callings is truly inspirational.

Mary-Michael Horowitz, CISM, is the Founding Partner/CEO at Asylas, LLC. Asylas is a cybersecurity solutions firm heavily focused on remarkable service and customized approaches to security, privacy and risk consulting. We discuss small and midsized business security challenges, including passwords and password managers.

Experian security flaw, CISOs focus on three trends, email services encryption, importance of SaaS user permissions, $24B MATIC coin risk, and today's list: 10 CRUCIAL cybersecurity tips for small business.

Flipper phish, Slack breach, LastPass last trust, Twitter account info for free, Iran DDoS attack, data privacy trends, and a question of whether or not to use a VPN firewall (feedback encouraged, email [email protected]).

From September 13, 2022 - Elvis Huff is the Vice President - Director of Security/Information Security Officer for Wilson Bank and Trust. His path to bank ISO is not typical but is inspirational, with 12 years as a police officer prior to entering the world of banking. His reason for the transition involves faith and following a calling. He also produces an awesome security newsletter, Security Stuff with Elvis Huff - check it out at https://www.wbtsecurityblog.com/!

For our kickoff episode of Season Five, Dave Evangelista joins us. He has 20 years of experience with financial institutions and is currently the Vice President Information Technology for a midwestern credit union where he is responsible for the tactical direction, control, and ongoing analysis and planning for the credit union’s IT environment. Infrastructure, Operations, Critical Systems, Information Security, Development, e-Services, Service Delivery, Digital and Technology Support. He also has 24 years of law enforcement experience, including as a Kentucky certified Cyber and Financial Crimes Investigator, Kentucky certified Advanced Internet Crimes Investigator, election consultant on crimes against children to former Governor Ernie Fletcher, founder  and executive director for the United States Internet Crime Task Force (1998-2020), and is a recognized expert witness on digital forensics.