The Well Aware Security Show

Fellow SMU Mustang and former Ballerina Jessica Nemmers joins the show this week to talk about how culture impacts cybersecurity. Jessica has been a CISO and Global IT leader for the past 24 years for Fortune 500 companies like Perot Systems and CMC. This week we also officially launched the beta test of the Well Aware cybersecurity personality assessment...tune in to find out what Jessica's cybersecurity personality archetype is!

How do you get started in Cybersecurity? Interested in being a CISO one day? Patrick Benoit, Global head of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at CBRE joins the show to talk about how you can use the habit of cybersecurity literacy and lifelong learning to find your path through any career in cybersecurity. We've gotten a ton of questions about careers in cybersecurity lately, but also a lot of folks already in the field are transitioning to new roles right now, so this week we're focusing on cybersecurity career advice!

It's April Fool's day, so it's the perfect time to talk about why developing the habit of Deception is critical to a strong defense. Our guest this week is Dr. Stanley Barr, Principal Scientist, and Capability Area Leader for Cyber Denial, Deception, and Adversary Engagement  at the MITRE Corporation. You've probably heard of the MITRE ATT&CK framework, but Dr. Barr is thinking about the next step - creating an active defense using adversarial engagement which they call MITRE Shield.

As Julius Cesar once said...Experience is the best teacher. This week's guest is no stranger to the CISO role...Sarah Hendrickson has been a CISO or deputy CISO at 5 different companies in multiple industries, and she shares her secret 90 day plan for jumping into a new CISO role.

Our tinfoil hats are tingling! This week, we're talking Threat Response with Deepwatch's own Director of Solutions Architecture, Jamar Beall and Ian Schneller, CISO at RealPage! We'll talk frameworks, managed security services and what to look for (and what not to look for) in your security partners!

"SaaS is a black hole, a blind spot into a company's visibility into their security posture."
Obsidian Security's Director of Systems Engineering, John Doetch and their CISO, Alfredo Hickman join hosts George Finney and Scott Schindler to talk about how we can move into the new world of SaaS security. 

In this episode, recorded in front of a live virtual audience, Co-Hosts George Finney and Scott Schindler  discuss the unprecedented security breach that has become known as Solarigate. And if that wasn't exciting enough, they are joined by an amazing panel, including interview Dr. Zero Trust himself, Dr. Chase Cunningham, Chief Strategy Officer for Ericom, Rohit "Leo" Satpathy from the PC Security Channel, and Doug Landall, CEO of Lantego.

Do we live in the Matrix? In this live episode, sponsored by Spirent, George Finney and Scott Schindler discuss how maybe the whole Universe is an emulation instead of a simulation with special guests, Michael Jack, Sr. Director for Product Management at Spirent, and Brian Rowe, CISO for Rehrig Pacific.

In this live show...George Finney discusses modern endpoint protection with co-host Scott Schindler and guests...  Listyanna Dowell Sr. Director, Information Security Management at SiriusXM, and Sentinel One's foremost expert on EDR, Ben Mungkornpanich.