On his week's Throwback Thursday from April 5, 2022, Bob Quandt, owner of Bullseye Compliance (https://bullseyecompliance.com) joins VCM for a conversation that ranges from issues and trends in SMB security, entrepreneurship and making a difference, fitness and stress management, application of military experience to infosec, and more!

In this special Wednesday episode, from the CU Intersect Conference in Houston Texas July 19, 2022, vCISO Services, LLC Principal Greg Schaffer discusses how credit unions and other small and midsized businesses can optimize their vCISO to maximize their information security posture.

Anthony Scarola is an IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) expert; has many years in cybersecurity; is a U.S. Army veteran; holds the CISSP; and is a virtual CISO. And he's writing a security book! Listen to his wisdom as it pertains to risk management and learn one mistake many may make when discussing risk with the c suite and board of directors.

Rogers outage cause, 54 million Twitter accounts' information for sale for $3K, ransomware update, Entrust breached, an startups without a CISO are at a disadvantage - plus statistics, and why you need to both understand their context and source, using a well-known example of an information security "statistic" in the last article.

Ransomware infections and payments decline, CISO urges patching Windows 11 patch bug, more Chrome fixes, stress in cybersecurity, possibly regulating BGP, and commentary on the CU Intersect conference.

J.J. Powell of Cyber Defense Group (https://www.cdg.io/) discusses his career journey from police officer to system administrator to CISO and now as leading virtual CISO services. He is also a pivotal component into my decision to leave corporate and become an independent vCISO - listen to find out what was "the straw that broke the camel's back" for me!

Shodan special offer, banks need to implement best practices, five key things from smal org CISOs, Netwrix Auditor bug, and on the road challenges.

Phishing campaign bypasses MFA, healthcare debt collection agency ransomware breach 1.9 million records, Log4Shell endemic, criminal hackers targeting Indian students, Florida Atlantic University received grant, and my cybersecurity path, including learning Python?

On this week's Throwback Thursday from 3/22/2022 - The Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or CISSP, is considered by some to be the pinnacle of information security professional certifications, on par with the CPA. But why is that, and what differentiates it from other certifications? And why is it important for virtual CISOs to have and maintain this certification?