The Virtual CISO Moment

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?

Johanan (Jo) Dixon talks about life in the Marine Corps, as an MMA amateur fighter, and as a Title boxing instructor, and how these helped prepare him for his journey to cybersecurity and his current role with Halcyon (https://www.halcyon.ai/). And he's starting up a new podcast!

Rogers service interruption, hacking a Honda, the future of certifications, and Monday thoughts.

Marriott breach third in four years, CISA alert for Maui ransomware, SMBs not leveraging MFA, free entry-level cybersecurity training, DoD bug bounty program, the illusion of short cuts, and a disturbing LinkedIn site allegedly distributing copyrighted cybersecurity books without author and publisher authorization.

On this week’s Throwback Thursday from 3/15/22, Ed Carroll joins us to discuss many of the initiatives he's involved with, including Edison Marks to apply AI to help SMBs (https://edisonmarks.com/), the Carolina Cyber Center to help with information security in North Carolina and beyond (https://carolinacybercenter.com/), and an update on the RETR3AT cyber security conference at beautiful Montreat College (https://www.montreat.edu/about/events/retr3at/).

William Birchett, President of Logos Systems and creator of the vCISO Network, discusses the virtual CISO space including elements that make a successful vCISO, the biggest threat to SMBs (it's not ransomware!), and his future plans to help the vCISO field through Logos Systems, the vCISO Network, and other endeavors.

Ransom returned with gains, cyber risks in space, NIST CSF 2.0 coming, HackerOne employee claims bug bounties for themselves, bug bounty programs offer hope for cyber skills gap, and thoughts on another approach to closing that gap.