teissPodcast - Cracking Cyber Security

Are CISOs suffering from an image crisis? Do they need a rebranding of sorts? How can they be taken seriously by the board and be seen as part of business operations as opposed to purely an investment? With us to explore these questions is TEISS podcast regular Joe Carson, Chief Security Expert at Thycotic. He’ll explain why 2019 is the year of the CISO but also why CISOs need to do more listening...

This week on the show we have ESET’S Malware Analyst and Researcher, Lukas Stefanko and Head of Automated Threat Detection and Artificial Intelligence, Juraj Jánošík. TEISS caught up with them at Mobile World Congress last month in Barcelona where we discussed the tactics criminals are employing to hack into mobile phones and how we can stay secure with the fast moving innovations in the mobile sp...

When it comes to movers and shakers in the tech world, our guest this week is certainly making some noise in that realm. Sian John, MBE, is the Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft and the tour de force behind the #queuefortheloo initiative; a series of events and online resources aimed at women (and men) in the cyber security sector. On this podcast Sian discusses how the #queuefortheloo campaign...

This week on the podcast we are talking with Naaman Haart, a UK-based threat hunter for the cybersecurity company, Digital Guardian. The role of the Threat hunter is a fairly new one within the industry and on this episode Naaman discusses the ins and outs of what the job entails, as well as how he hunts for, investigates and quarantines threats on a number of enterprise networks. Naaman also reve...

On this week’s episode, we talk to cyber security company Tanium’s CEO Orion Hindawi and Chief Technology Officer, Ryan Kazanciyan, at their yearly conference, CONVERGE. Is it fair to label vendors as the snake oil of the cyber security industry? How can CISOs measure risk and present their findings to the board in a comprehensive way? Can companies really avoid having a weak link in their armour?...

On this week’s podcast TEISS speaks with Detective Superintendent Andrew Gould - Head of the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit about how the Met is tackling international cybercrime, how well nation states cooperate when it comes to tracking down the criminals and what he’s learned from previous work in counter terrorism that is helping in the plight to clamp down on cybercrime.

Did you know that the most popular password at the end of 2018 was "123456", followed by “password” in second place? Here's a list of the top 25 which might seem alarming...or not. So, unsurprisingly, this week we’re talking passwords…yes, those things we love to hate…but why do we love to hate them? Why exactly are we so bad at changing our passwords regularly? What’s wrong with us...

This week Joe Carson, chief security scientist at Thycotic, takes us through the mind of a hacker. What reconnaissance does a hacker conduct before an attack? What are the vulnerabilities they’re looking for? When are hackers most likely to strike? Joe shares his thoughts on these questions, as well as addressing the risks of introducing IoT for ease of use but sacrificing security and how you can...

Here we are - at the end of 2018 – and what a year it’s been in the world of cyber security. Barely a week went by without a story of another major breach hitting the headlines. It was the year of GDPR , when businesses jostled to understand and implement the required privacy regulations. Was it also Facebook’s annus horribilis ? The Cambridge Analytica scandal, Russian fake news, and the failure...

This is Part Two of our focus on cyber extortion with Tim Lambon, Director of NYA, the Global Response Team. The episode explores the stigma attached to admitting your business has been a victim of ransomware, the emotional trauma some victims go through, how GDPR has empowered the criminals, as well as Tim’s top tips for dealing with cyber extortion.

Cyber extortion is our theme this week; the crime involving an attack or threat of an attack coupled with a demand for money or some other response in return for stopping or remediating the attack. This is the first part of a 2 part cyber extortion special where Tim Lambon, Director of the Global Response Team at NYA, discusses the different types of cyber extortion the criminals are exploiting, w...

This week we are talking about security awareness with Martin Smith MBE, Chairman of both SASIG and The Security Company. On the podcast Martin discusses the importance of humour and humanity, what is needed to inspire security culture behaviour change within an organisation, and why the security industry needs to stop isolating itself from other industries. 

TEISS speaks with Tanium’s Chief Security Officer, David Damato, at CONVERGE18 in Washington DC. On the podcast, we explore how he thinks the cyber skills gap could be bridged, how WannaCry could have been avoided, lessons he’s learnt along his career path, as well as how to talk to the board effectively. New research from Tanium suggests that UK firms have a long way to go in building the busines...

This week we talk hackers vs defenders, how to convince the board to invest in the unknown and the future of cybersecurity with Juraj Malcho, CTO at ESET. Also, why a dose of health paranoia could be good for us...

This week we talk with  Chris Day, Cyxtera’s Chief Cybersecurity Officer, about the importance of studying geopolitical events in this cyber sensitive world, IoT security and how to build a cyber resilient network.  

This week we are exploring the somewhat complex relationship between social media and democracy and asking the question: what if Hitler had access to my Facebook data?   It’s said that today’s secret services and Big Data companies possess much more data about us than were needed to run totalitarian states in the past.  So, with this in mind, what would happen to our personal data were it to end u...

 On this episode we are commemorating Ada Lovelace Day , which happens on the second Tuesday of every October to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM careers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), and was created in memory of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer. However, it’s also at these moments in time when we should take note that women make up just 23 per cent of t...

As a security decision maker, you might be suffering from conference fatigue. You know, that all too familiar din as you attempt to traverse the never-ending conference floor only to be stalled in your tracks by yet another vendor touting the latest “silver bullet” for EVERY cyber vulnerability. And yet, relationship building, networking and discussion with peers are invaluable to CISOs. So how ca...

As the US mid-term elections approach, we thought we’d take a close look at “elections and hacking” with chief security scientist at Thycotic, Joseph Carson. On the podcast, Joe explains why information wars pose the greatest risk to democracy, how manipulating the mind works through misinformation, and what changes to the voting system he’d like to see put in place.

What does it take to build a cyber resilient organisation? What’s the best way to educate staff? Is a revolution needed or can cyber resiliency evolve over time? What does cyber resiliency even mean? This week we are talking about “cyber resiliency” with Chief Security Officer of Bacs and Faster Payments, Craig Rice.

This week we are talking about mental health in cyber security and what businesses should be doing to help their employees deal with the stresses of the job. Long hours and high stress levels, the cyber security profession is not for everyone and with data breaches on the rise - is it right that cyber security professionals carry all that pressure on their shoulders, from the board down? Furthermo...

45% of businesses claim to have a shortage of cybersecurity skills and 67% of cybersecurity professionals say they’re too busy with their jobs to keep up with skills development and training. And yet there is an obvious and massively untapped resource – veterans – of which only 4% are working in tech and cyber. TEISS speaks with Peter Connolly, CEO of TechVets, on why veterans are the perfect cand...

As supply chains grow in size and complexity, so does the technology, data, transactions, users, and therefore the cyber security risk. According to the 2016 Security Breaches Survey, very few UK businesses set minimum security standards for their suppliers….So, how can organisations gain an improved awareness of supply chain security and how can they work better with their suppliers? TEISS talks...

Should we trust bitcoin? Can we really maintain anonymity using the currency? Questions covered on this week's podcast! As part of our Summer Special Podcast Series, this week we have an interview with Tod Beardsley, Rapid7’s research director who discusses how he thinks the internet should be managed and whether he believes bitcoin will be the currency of our future. Nick Bilogorskiy, former...

Welcome to our Cyber Summer Series. Slightly different to our usual podcast format – we’re featuring interviews recorded earlier this year at InfoSec 2018. First up is Andrew Lloyd, President and Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing at Corero who discusses the current trends in DDoS attacks and the smokescreens criminals use to distract investigators. Following this is Technical Director a...