Business Security Weekly (Video)

In the leadership and communications section, A tougher balancing act in 2024, the year of the CISO, CISOs Struggle for C-Suite Status Even as Expectations Skyrocket, Want to Be a Better Leader? Stop Thinking About Work After Hours, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-336

How do you prepare for a cyber incident? You train as you fight, but in what environment? William "Hutch" Hutchinson, CEO and co-founder of SimSpace, joins BSW to share cyber best practices and why testing in your operational environment not a good idea. Learn what it takes to be Cyber Ready. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-336

Inspired by my co-host, Jason Albuquerque, we get our hands dirty and discuss the challenges of hiring a CISO. How will the new SEC regulations impact the role for both organizations and individuals? In part 2, we get our hands dirty by addressing CISO hiring from the individual CISO. What should you look for in a CISO role? What questions should you be asking during the interview process? What ar...

Inspired by my co-host, Jason Albuquerque, we get our hands dirty and discuss the challenges of hiring a CISO. How will the new SEC regulations impact the role for both organizations and individuals? In part 1, we discuss the challenges of hiring a CISO from the organization's perspective. Do I need a CISO? What are the responsibilities of a CISO? Who should the CISO report to? Show Notes: https:/...

In the leadership and communications section, Advice to Aspiring CISOs, New risk management framework helps with SEC mandate compliance, A Simple Hack to Help You Communicate More Effectively, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-333

Research shows that 26% of US workers currently work remotely, and there are expected to be 32.3 million American employees working remotely by 2025. To support these workers, organizations are adopting cloud solutions and migrating data to these cloud solutions. However, many businesses lack visibility into who has access to what data and when, especially in these cloud solutions. How should orga...

Robert Herjavec, CEO of Cyderes, was the keynote speaker at InfoSec World 2022, where he discussed the momentum we continue to see in the cybersecurity industry. Topics included mergers & acquisitions, Robert's outlook on the cyber market, staffing shortages, and nation state threats. Robert joins BSW to expand on his ISW keynote presentation. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-bsw-7

Throughout her career, Sandy Dunn has continued to mature and refine her skills. In the early days, she describes her job as a "hostage negotiator", constantly negotiating between the business teams and the security team. But as you mature, so does your approach to security. Now, Sandy talks about simplifying "knowledge management" to make it easy to understand security and becoming a "business li...

In the leadership and communications section, Building an Effective Information Security Strategy, What Makes a Company Great at Producing Leaders?, 80 Fun Meeting Icebreakers Your Team Will Love, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-332

Cyber has been an historically hermetic practice. A dark art. Full of mysteries and presided over by magicians both good and bad. This is a bit of an exaggeration, yet there is some truth to it. Many in our industry knew that the SEC was evaluating the role that cyber risk management and incident disclosure plays in the pricing mechanism for an equity. Many of the participants in GRC, IRM, and Cyb...

In the leadership and communications section, Steve Katz, World's First CISO, Dies in Hospice Care, Top CISO Communities to Join in 2024, Workplace Culture 101: How to Create Positivity at Work, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-331

Materiality, Disclosure, and Evidence... New terms for cybersecurity professionals to understand under the new SEC Regulations for Cybersecurity. And the Solarwinds indictment is just the beginning. Join the BSW crew as they tackle each of these new terms in preparation for SEC enforcement which starts this week. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-331

In the leadership and communications section, A Letter from the CISO to the CEO, The High Cost Of Ignoring Cybersecurity: Why Your Business Needs Protection, The Art of Speaking Cadence: Unleashing a Powerful Leadership Tool, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-330

Theresa Lanowitz joins Business Security Weekly to review real edge computing use cases from the AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report. Specifically, we'll cover the following industry sector reports, including: Healthcare Manufacturing Retail US SLED Transportation Research for the AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report was conducted during July and August 2022. AT&T surveyed 1,418 security practitioner...

In the leadership and communications section, Clorox Scapegoats Cyber Chief, Rewards Board After Crisis, The SEC To CISOs: Welcome To The Big Leagues, SolarWinds: SEC lacks 'competence' to regulate cybersecurity, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-329

Most leadership books suffer from one of two critical failures (and sometimes both). The book might be a hagiography: telling you the biography of some amazing leaders, pretending there is one secret trick that will let you emulate that leader. Or the lesson of book should have been written as a tweet: in 280 characters you could have learned one lesson, but instead you have to fight through 300 p...

We often think "this would be so much better if done properly from the beginning", but the reality is, doing things from scratch comes with different challenges. Managing priorities, deciding what you tackle on from the absolute beginnings of a company in terms of security is a fun challenge. Segment Resources: Full session at the upcoming GoSec Conference: https://www.gosec.net/sessions/ Show Not...

Inspired by my co-host, Jason Albuquerque, we get our hands dirty and discuss the challenges of cyber risk management. Why is cyber risk management so elusive and what can we do to solve it? In part 2, we get our hands dirty by walking through ways to quantify cyber risks in business terms. What risks are truly worth mitigating vs. accepting or transferring? And if we do mitigate them, how do we t...

Inspired by my co-host, Jason Albuquerque, we get our hands dirty and discuss the challenges of cyber risk management. Why is cyber risk management so elusive and what can we do to solve it? In part 1, we discuss the challenges of cyber risk management and quantification. Do risk scores really work? What do CEOs and Boards really need to understand cyber risks? Show Notes: https://securityweekly.c...

In the leadership and communications segment, SolarWinds Is A Game Changer - You Cannot Sugarcoat Cybersecurity, Rethinking CISO Accountability: A Call for Balance in Cybersecurity Leadership, How to improve communication in the workplace: Strategies for enhanced productivity, and more. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-327

It's time to review the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. We also update you on the Security Weekly 25 index. The index is rebounding, but there's a long way to go to get back to the top. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-327

In the leadership and communications section, Proactive Boards Enable More Reliable Cyber Governance, CISO Best Practices for Managing Cyber Risk, The Evolution of Work: How Can Companies Prepare for What's to Come?, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-326

As the workforce increasingly relies on the cloud, the browser has become a critical aspect of enterprise security. Employees now use browsers to access data and applications from various devices and locations, making browsers the primary target for cyber attackers. Enterprise browsers are specifically designed to address the security challenges of the modern and complex workforce. According to Ga...

In the leadership and communications section, Cybersecurity should be a business priority for CEOs, What CISOs Should Exclude From SEC Cybersecurity Filings, Effective Communication: The Key to Workplace Success, and more! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-325

As the CISO role continues to transform from a technician to a risk manager, how do you secure emerging technologies, such as edge computing? By aligning to business objectives. In this segment, Theresa Lanowitz from AT&T Cybersecurity and Scott Stout From Cisco help us break down the challenges of the CISO and how to align security requirements to business outcomes to solve the emerging edge comp...