You don’t want anything to happen, but you also want security to somehow to calculate ROI. Maybe the ROI could be calculated from actual sales that security allowed to actually happen. This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Our sponsored guest is Ryan Gurney, CISO-in-residence, YL Ventures. Thanks to our sponsor, YL Ventures  YL Ventures, a global VC firm, manages over $300 million and exclusively invests in early-stage Israeli cybersecurity startups. YL Ventures accelerates the evolution of its portfolio companies via strategic advice and operational execution, leveraging a network of CISOs and industry veterans from Fortune 100 and high-growth companies. In this episode:  What happens when Application Surface Management (ASM) vendors are purchased as Security assets? What do you do when your company wants to use a really insecure SaaS product? Does a startup need a CISO, or just a CISO-in-residence? Is there a better sign other than "nothing happened" that indicates you did a good job in cybersecurity today?"   

What's the ROI of Nothing Happening?

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All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is Steve Zalewski, co-host, Defense in Depth. Recorded live at BSidesSF. In this episode:   Are companies taking the air out of the open source balloon?   What’s broken about cybersecurity hiring?   Do we need minimum requirements for cybersecurity knowledge in sales?   Thanks to our podcast sponsors, Devo, Eclypsium & NetSPI  Devo replaces traditional SIEMs with a real-time security data platform. Devo’s integrated platform serves as the foundation of your security operations and includes data-powered SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA. AI and intelligent automation help your SOC work faster and smarter so you can make the right decisions in real-time.  Eclypsium is helping enterprises and government agencies mitigate risks to their infrastructure from complex technology supply chains. Our cloud-based and on-premises platform provides digital supply chain security for software, firmware and hardware in enterprise infrastructure. Get started today at eclypsium.com/spark.  NetSPI ASM continuously scans your external perimeter to identify, inventory, and reduce risk to both known and unknown assets. It blends scanning methodology with our consultants' human intelligence to identify previously undiscovered data sources and vulnerabilities so you can remediate what matters most.

Ransomware? Why’d It Have to Be Ransomware? (Live in San Francisco)

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Jeremiah Roe, advisory CISO, OffSec. In this episode:   What happens as data minimization in the US changes from a potential policy goal to a regulatory imperative?   How does this impact the rest of the industry?   How do CISOs start getting ready for compliance?  How to improve cybersecurity training and development?  Thanks to our podcast sponsor, OffSec   OffSec helps companies like Cisco, Google, and Salesforce upskill cybersecurity talent through comprehensive training and resources. With programs ranging from red team and blue team training and more, your team will be ready to face real-world threats. Request a  free trial for your team to explore OffSec’s learning library and cyber range.

You Can’t Leak What You Don’t Collect

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our guest, Martin Mazor, vp and CISO, onsemi. In this episode:   Has the shine worn off the cybersecurity promise of MFA?   Why are threat actors increasingly finding ways to get around it?   Given the high profile attacks we've seen getting around MFA, how much security stock should we put into it going forward?   Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Material Security   Material Security is a multi-layered email threat detection & response toolkit designed to stop attacks and reduce the threat surface across all of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Learn more at  material.security.

Our Help Desk Plaque Reads “Over 100,000 Threat Actors Served”

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is our guest, TC Niedzialkowski, CISO, Nextdoor. In this episode:   Has the line between work and personal devices blurred?   Why are we seeing signs that that line no longer exists for employees?   What is the path of cybersecurity to keep company data secured when its continually commingling with personal devices?   Thanks to our podcast sponsors, Eclypsium and Normalyze  Eclypsium is helping enterprises and government agencies mitigate risks to their infrastructure from complex technology supply chains. Our cloud-based and on-premises platform provides digital supply chain security for software, firmware and hardware in enterprise infrastructure. Get started today at eclypsium.com/spark  Where is my data? Is it sensitive? Who has access to the data? What are the risks? What is the cost of exposure? Am I compliant now? Enter  Normalyze.  Normalyze’s agentless, machine-learning scanning platform continuously discovers sensitive data, resources, and access paths in all cloud environments.  Learn more.

Can’t Talk, I’m Onboarding My Kids To Their First Soccer Practice (Live in Mountain View, CA)

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining me is our sponsored guest, Aaron Shaha, CISO, CyberMaxx. In this episode:   Is technical debt an inevitability in any organization?   How do you go about "paying it down?"   How do you decide when you need a systematic refresh and when can you kick the can down the road a little longer?   Thanks to our podcast sponsor, CyberMaxx  CyberMaxx offers MaxxMDR, our next-generation managed detection and response (MDR) solution that helps customers assess, monitor, and manage their cyber risks. MaxxMDR fuels defensive capabilities with insights from offensive security, DFIR, and threat hunting, on top of a technology-agnostic deployment model. We think like an adversary but defend like a guardian.

What's the ROI of Nothing Happening?

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