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In this episode, Jack Borchgrevink of VMware joins Mike Krass to discuss two important issues: vendor responsibility to provide support in advance of a breach (service partners, playbooks, tabletop games) as well as how to secure your organization during times of employee turnover (both in and out of the organization). If these topics are of interest to you, get those ears ready to listen!

In this episode, Fares Mohammed joins What’s the Problem to discuss social engineering in the world of #cybersecurity. Based on his experience, Fares discusses email phishing scams about bitcoin or NFT projects all the way down to dropping flash drives in random places in corporate offices to see who would plug them into company networked devices. Which oh, by the way, 17 out of 20 dropped USB flash drives were plugged into a networked device. Whoa!

In this episode, Mike Krass chats with Christopher Gibbons to discuss the fact that in 2022 secure email gateways (SEG’s) don’t statistically provide any more protection than you already receive with Microsoft Office 365 or Google Business applications. So, what other options are out there on the market? There’s a new category of them: Phishing Detection & Response (PDR).

This episode explores a key topic for security vendors to consider: how do I speak to a person in a Technical role versus a Business Manager role? Based on her years of experience on the buyer side of security vendor pitches, Fatma Candas details why the concept of 'less is more' is important to avoid overloading buyers with unnecessary information. Additionally, Fatma makes it crystal clear that when entering her office sellers need to focus on buyer problems by function, role, or department. "Don't waste my time."

Passwords, passwords, passwords being used everywhere and still we have breaches. Join security specialist Adil Ahmed as he discusses the issues with insecure passwords (did you know people still use 123456 for passwords these days?). Specific password  cracking attacks such as brute force, password spraying as well as spear phishing when a hacker has gained access to 1 (or more) of your systems and are using these as hop points to jump around your network are discussed in today’s episode.

In this episode, Dani Woolf and Mike Krass dive into the big H word: Honesty. More specifically, Dani explores how honesty and transparency around what your security product can or cannot do for the buyer's organization should be a mandatory requirement for all security sales or marketing leaders.

Join our host Mike Krass as he brings Matt Buhler on to the What’s the Problem podcast. During this episode, they discuss Matthew’s participation in open source security analysis competitions such as Trace Labs CTF and MetaCTF. Learn how these open source competitions locate data for law enforcement to find missing persons across the "Clear" and "Dark" web as well as remove CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) from the Internet using Project Haydes. 

Note: Matthew advises to never, ever view CSAM material. Instead, use tools like Project Haydes to identify the material.

Marcela Denniston joins What’s the Problem to discuss how Small-to-Mid sized businesses (SMBs) are low-hanging fruit targets for bad actors as well as what they can do to protect their organizations on a budget.

Join our conversation with Ebony Hall, a Systems Engineer with Cambium Learning who also has an IT background in the military (U.S. Army), as we discussed phishing attacks in the public sector.

Andy Smith the Chief Marketing Officer at Laminar joins to discuss the problems of security buyers: the convergence of cloud transformation and data democratization.