Cybersecurity Advisors Network

Dmytro Bilash joins us for a conversation about online disinformation - what it is, how it adversely affects democratic societies, who's behind it, and how we can combat this major and growing threat to social cohesion and political and economic stability. A few contextual link from our discussion: Dr. Egor Zakharov of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute, Zurich (ETHZ) - AI expert, and partici...

Kojo Osei Amoyaw-Osei is a master's candidate at EM-Lyon Business School.  He joins us today to discuss his thesis project for the MSc programme in Cybersecurity and Defence Management. Businesses face a growing set of challenges when building their information security maturity - specifically, Kojo has identified three core paradoxes in his research:   1) Personalisation - delivering personalised...

Thanks Jillian Kwong, Research Scientist at Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS), for joining us today as we discuss Jillian's work in cybersecurity third party risk management and more. Jillian has a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, where her dissertation looked at the human and managerial side of data privacy (e.g. GDPR, CCPA...

In today's Secure-in-Mind episode, we talk about cyberwarfare with Hugo Tarrida. Hugo recently finished his master's with a focus on cyber and hybrid warfare and the impact it has on security, at King's College London. Cyber and hybrid warfare are rapidly evolving domains of conflict that encompass a wide array of threats and tactics. These strategies involve cyberattacks aimed at disrupting criti...

Remy Bertot joins us for the latest Secure-in-Mind episode.  Based on his work with Passbolt, makers of a popular open source password manager, Remy shares his observations on current trends and future expecations of passwords, authentication tokens, and similar mechanisms. We talk about security in open source software, certifications and audits, telemetry and usage statistics, and how such OSS p...

Today's Secure-in-Mind episode features a discussion with (soon to be Dr.) Florian Hantke, a candidate in the pilot intake of the CyAN mentorship pilot programmed.   Florian is conducting advanced research on vulnerability management and information security trends as part of the secure web applications group at CISPA Helmholtz, a major German academic research network.  He is an accomplished pene...

The cybersecurity employment market is in a unique situation - teams are often underfunded and overtaxed, while layoffs at big tech and other security-reliant critical firms have left insecurity in the industry - as regulatory requirements and evolving threats require ever more attention to the topic.   Meanwhile, academic institutions are continuously challenged to improve their approaches to dev...

Many of us have fallen victims to scams.  Most of us know someone else who has.  Fraud did not start with the Internet, but it has unfortunately become an integral part of the online experience. Jorij Abraham is Managing Director of the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), a non-profit organization based in Amsterdam and a partner to CyAN.   In today's Secure-in-Mind episode, we talk about GASA's mis...

Let's face it: your company will be breached. This is just a reality in today's business world. The first step is to accept this, and to understand why it happens. The next step is to take steps to minimize the damage from a security incident when it inevitably occurs.  In today's episode of the Secure-in-Mind series of conversations about security topics, CyAN explores the topic of surviving a cy...

In today's episode of the Secure-in-Mind series, I'm joined by Anthony Hess, CEO of co-founder of cyber crisis management and response firm Asceris. Anthony has a wealth of experience working with insurance firms, especially in the field of cybersecurity and cyber risk insurance, and combines a strong technologist's background with a wealth of knowledge around insurance logic, policy types, underw...

In the latest episode of the Good Faith Cybersecurity Researches' Coalition dialogues, we speak with Mischa Hansel, head of the research focus on international cybersecurity at the IFSH - the University of Hamburg institute for peace research and security. In our conversation, we cover topics such as - stockpiling and weaponizing of cyber vulnerabilities by state actors - vulnerability reporting r...

In today's episode of the Secure-in-Mind series, Joe Cozzupoli and I confront some burning topics around how to deal with artificial intelligence (AI) when confidential or critical data is involved. On the CyAN blog, Joe recently wrote about the need to balance privacy and security in AI systems - you can find that article here:   https://cybersecurityadvisors.network/2023/05/03/balancing-privacy-...

Dr. Jacqui Taylor and John Salomon talk about the state of diversity in the cybersecurity industry.   What is the state of women in the sector, and how are neurodiverse professionals represented in information security positions?  What are the current challenges facing underrepresented groups in industry, how do we see this developing in the coming years, and how can we help address current imbala...

Welcome Wim Hafkamp, Managing Director of Z-CERT, the Dutch healthcare CERT, and Quartermaster / Chairman of the European Health ISAC.  Wim brings many years of information security leadership experience in the financial sector to his current organisation's role of supporting the cybersecurity resilience of the Dutch medical and healthcare community.   In the latest in our Secure in Mind series, w...

Welcome Eward Driehuis, chairman of the board of CSIRT.global.  Eward has a long and diverse history in the information security sector, and currently supports the mission of CSIRT.global, a not for profit vulnerability and incident management collective based in the Netherlands. Today, we talk about a wide range of topics, including - various types of malware - the evolution of visibility into di...

CyAN welcomes Inti de Ceukelaire, ethical cybervulnerability researcher, and Chief Hacker Officer at Intigriti, a Belgium-based bug bounty platform. We talk about a wide range of topics relevant to legal protections of responsible vulnerability researchers and disclosure, using the recently implemented Belgian safe harbor law as a basis for discussion.  Industry and society depend on timely awaren...

Łukasz Gawron and John Salomon talk about the current state of the Polish cybersecurity industry.  Łukasz works with #CyberMadeInPoland, an industry cluster dedicated to advancing the interests and maturity of the Polish information security sector - with activities ranging from talent development and support for startups, to fostering public-private and intra-industry cooperation. In this video,...

John Salomon talks to Jonathan Srugo, cybersecurity consultant, founder of Nebotain Smart Digital Defense, and former CISO of an Asian online gaming company. Internet gambling is a significant part of the online economy, and is legal (if often heavily regulated) in much of the world.  Unfortunately, whether due to moral considerations or disagreements about legality, several cybersecurity actors,...

Join James Briscoe, CyAN Secretary General, as he moderates a panel of experts discussing the concept of zero trust.   What are the requirements for designing and implementing true zero trust models, frameworks, and strategies?  What a premises and assumptions should a zero trust architecture be based on, what use cases are relevant, and how can its security value be proven, if at all?    What pit...

A conversation with Udi Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Vendict, a startup providing automated AI-driven supplier risk management form data entry. In this video, we discuss various aspects of how AI will affect the information security space, particularly in the areas of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC).  Udi gives his comments on the potential, as well as the limitations of generative, linguis...

We welcome Jacques Dahan, Chief Revenue Officer of Cyvers, a startup providing blockchain security services.   John and Jacques discuss aspects of crypto- and blockchain security - what types of attacks are there, what are the vulnerable points of crypto exchanges and implementations?  Where and how can they be stopped?  This is a very new and fascinating area of information security, and one we e...

John and J-C Le Toquin finally and conclusively solve the age-old conflict between cyber-privacy and security! No, not really. Rather, we have an interesting discussion of the history, context, and current considerations around this highly contentious topic. How should society, legislators, and law enforcement balance the right to privacy with the need for effective investigations? How can we give...

John and Dan, one of our newer members at the Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) discuss a variety of topics relevant to Dan's activity with Zurich Resilience Solutions, and his past experience in intelligence and law enforcement. Visit Dan on LinkedIn at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliott-dan , and check out his excellent Simplify Cyber newsletter:  https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/simpl...

John Salomon and James Briscoe, CyAN Secretary General, discuss the organisation, its history, its objectives, and activities in flight. The latest in our series of video chats around topics relevant to cybersecurity in the 2020s.  Visit us at  https://cybersecurityadvisors.network Intro/outro music courtesy of Studio Kolomna via Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/studiokolomna-2073170/  

In this "Secure in Mind" podcast episode, we speak with Christopher Ahlberg, whose firm Recorded Future serves numerous governments and private companies worldwide, aiding intelligence-driven decisions that impact citizens globally.