The ITSPmagazine Podcast

Positive cultural and societal changes do not happen in a day, but they need to start somewhere, and indeed they do not happen by magic. Education is a key driver that can promote, facilitate, and speed up such changes. Contact of different societies, technological evolution, and geographical and ecological factors can initiate societal changes that can take quite some time. Still, sometimes we ne...

Former special agent John Toney joins Tech Done Different to provide insights gleaned from the Secret Service, and how he applies those insights now as a Global CISO in the private sector. You'll learn how protecting a US President is pretty much the same as protecting your digital assets, as well as how to build teams, foster culture, and so much more. You'll learn: when to move and when not to m...

Your organization has precious resources all over the place: on-premises in the data center on servers and in databases; in the office, at home, on the road on desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and smart devices; in the cloud inside containers, applications, and a variety of storage services. Assuming you have identified and verified the person and/or system and/or service as a valid enti...

The Hacker Book Club is a book club focusing on books for hackers, by hackers, and about hackers & hacking (along with some sci-fi). Now, we bring you the Hacker Book Club Podcast! For episode 1 we brought you a special founders' review of the books we've read and authors we've spoken to over the course of the book club's first year. Listen in as Chloé Messdaghi and Angela Marafino discuss some of...

When it comes to implementing efficient and effective information security programs, higher education institutions can use all the help they can get. That's where the RRCoP community comes in. In today's episode, our guests, Carolyn Ellis, Erik Deumens, and Michael Parisi talk through the goals of the RRCoP community and the impact is has on the higher education cybersecurity community as they wor...

Aryan Sharma (@aryxnsharma) on leveraging Web3, building in public, and a page from the book of game theory—the signal behind the layers of complexity and hype. Aryan Sharma is a 17-year-old builder and hacker in Web3. He’s also previously built two small startups in the education and hyper-local jobs space, and posts his thoughts on Twitter to over 10K followers. “Many people have been thinking a...

Alex endured a lot of hardships including abusive family life but overcame them to become a web app pentester. Alex's hardships stemmed from an abusive family life. He was homeless and he dropped out of high school, but he had an escape through technology and gaming. Self taught he went on to educate himself, and get employed in IT. He now works as a web app pentester. _______________________ Gues...

In this episode, Alyssa talks to Simon Maple about dev adoption and empowerment, security champions teams, and much, much more. ________________________________ It is a podcast, yes, but you can join us as we record each episode live on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , and Youtube . Live , Every Wednesday at 1pm PDT | 4pm EDT (USA) | The Recorded Podcast version is published a few days later. Our a...

We all want to be happy but do we know how? Most of all, do we even know what true happiness is? We are going to talk about this, and get some tips on the matter from The Happiness Engineer himself: Dr. Ali Binazir.  The truth is that we started this podcast with the idea to talk about something else “How to be a charismatic speaker” but we got fascinated by what Ali had to say about happiness and...

Cryptography is now everywhere in the online world; but how do we know that it’s doing its job properly? Security of “messaging systems” like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. How do they work? What security do they offer? How do we know they're any good? And those are just a few questions for today's reality where we tend to trust that the cryptographic algorithms in user are fairly resilient. Wha...

Entrepreneurial legend, Richard Thalheimer, joins Tech Done Different to teach us the many things he learned by starting and growing The Sharper Image. You'll learn: how to adapt to disruptive technology why it's common for people to say No (hint: it's safe) why to execute "management by opportunity" why you should talk about your idea to everyone you meet (and why withholding it actually holds yo...

Why don't we have a Federal Privacy law and how can we just knock it out? Lauren Zabierek and Tatyana Bolton have a plan and are pushing for THIS to be the year the US takes the Data Privacy leap! _______________________ Guests Lauren Zabierek Director, Cyber Security Project at Harvard's Belfer Center [ @BelferCenter | @belfercyber ] (Policy Research) [ @Harvard | @Kennedy_School ] and co-founder...

Have you found your noble purpose? Elizabeth is a VP of client services, a consultant, a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, mentor, and an author. Join us for this engaging conversation around what it means to find your noble purpose, how to empower your employees, and a dive into the “Great Resignation” and how our workforce has been impacted by the pandemic. Elizabeth’s work focuses on igniting emoti...

This isn't just a story about a company and what they do. This is a story about using your previous experiences and pursuing your passion to help others, which is exactly what Greg Ake and Rob Noeth have done.  Greg and Rob have a goal of helping to reduce security risk for everyone, not just themselves or their employers, but for other organizations and our country. Level Effect is accomplishing...

The Metaverse, VR, XR, and much of the social technology we are developing today can and should be used for good. We have an ample opportunity to use it for good or look back one day and regret we didn’t. In this conversation, we spoke about what is the driving force that is leading the commercialization of VR, XR, and the Metaverse, but also all the paths we could take to create a virtual world t...

What if every bedtime was a powerful inspiration for your child's future and the future of humanity? Author Brett Hoffstadt and illustrator Steve Tanaka come from a long Aerospace careers. Their new mission is to inspire young kids everywhere to look up to the night sky and dream of a future where their contribution will help humanity inhabit our moon and travel in space. People always look at tho...

In this episode, Alyssa talks to Jeff Man about everything from three letter agencies to three letter compliance programs. They discuss the business value of compliance, how it can be used to drive better messaging, and where we fall short in risk discussions in particular. ________________________________ It is a podcast, yes, but you can join us as we record each episode live on Twitter , Linked...

Petar came to the US with his parents at a young age from Bulgaria, due to his father's hopes for a better life for his family. Petar, the son of a professional acrobat, had an interest in technology at an early age and followed his passion. He now works in threat intelligence. _______________________ Guest Petar Lachkov Threat Intelligence Analyst at Inspectiv [ @inspectiv ] On Twitter | https://...

Think you are on a journey to becoming a leader on a bus.... Have you ever felt lost while waiting for the right bus ? Have you ever felt the need to take a bus that takes you in a direction where you can meet your destiny? Have you ever helped a stranger on the journey on a bus and felt proud? Did you give somebody the seat to sit just right next to you so that they could feel accepted while you...

Fellow security author, Loren Kohnfelder, joins Tech Done Different to teach us how developers (and their managers) should think about building more secure software. You'll learn: why to understand threats as the starting point in building software why collaboration between developer and security teams matters why to ask "what's the worst that could happen?" as a way to think about secure software...

In this episode, NIST Fellow, Ron Ross, and Pepperdine Graziadio Business School Advisory Board Member, Howard Miller, join the show to discuss risk assessment, reward analysis, and security management in the age of advanced technology and complex system innovation. To secure a system, the sum of all of its parts must also be secure. This includes firmware, applications, APIs, networks, communicat...

In this episode, Wolfgang Goerlich, Advisory CISO and Strategist at Cisco, joined Alyssa to talk about security geese, the value of (or lack thereof) user awareness training programs, anti-phishing campaigns, and so much more. ________________________________ It is a podcast, yes, but you can join us as we record each episode live on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , and Youtube . Live , Every Wedne...

How does someone go from being a professional ballerina to cybersecurity? Lola shares her story and her new found passion for cybersecurity. A tragic car accident ended the professional ballerina career of Lola Kureno. Ballet was something she had done since the age of 3 and she shares how she overcame the loss of her loved talent and profession to prepare and become a cybersecurity professional....

We may see new "graph" processors in the future that can better handle the data-centric computations in data science. Will that be enough? About David David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and founder of the Department of Data Science and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to this, he served...

If you are fascinated by quantum computing but do not know much about it, this podcast is an excellent place to start. Professor Doug Tougaw is very patient and extremely well versed in explaining those fundamental and more complicated questions you may have about this topic.  “If you can think about quantum theory without getting dizzy, you don’t get it.” — Niels Bohr Bohr was a pioneer in the fi...