The SafeHouse

Greg Schaffer, SMB Advisory CISO, Founder vCISO Services, Author, Podcast Host, and Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to introduce, define and explore what a Virtual CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is, what they can do for your business, why you need one, and what to look for if you're looking to engage a vCISO. Edited by Amy Sco...

Christian Redshaw, President, TyneBridge Digital Partners, and host of the Digital Trust Podcast, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative, to discuss a practical and easily understandable definition of what cybersecurity is, why it's important and the steps to get your cybersecurity operation setup. Learn the 7 Actionable Steps to setup a successful cybersecurity operation with sp...

Eric Cernak, President, Cyber at the Hanover Insurance Group joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to discuss how to manage risk as a small business, and ways to mitigate that risk with Cyber Insurance. Eric defines what Cyber Insurance is and the elements of a typical Cyber Insurance policy. Don't miss this very useful session designed specifically for Small and Medium sized bu...

Angelika Mayen and Beau Butaud , Co-Founders of Render Compliance and SOC Champions, join Jeff Edwards , Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative , to discuss why the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 framework is so important and how it can help protect your business. Learn what SOC is, how to leverage it, and how to find help if you need it. Also be sure to check the SafeHouse Initiative website...

Ken Fishkin, Information Security and Privacy Evangelist, ISC 2 Chapter President, Infraguard Advisory Board Member, and Senior Manager of Information Security at Lowenstein Sandler, LLP shares his inspirational story of building the ISC 2 New Jersey Chapter Internship Program. Listen to his story and learn about building teams, and the importance of building new Cybersecurity expertise in your ow...

Neal Mullen, European Director of Cyber Security at CRH, BCI Hall of Fame, and SafeHouse Initiative Advisory Board Director joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative, to discuss the intersection of Cyber Risk and Cyber Resilience. Learn from this renown industry expert about how to move from a preventative and technical mindset to more of a resilience and people mindset when it come...

Kyle Schlosser, Insider Threat Management, Data Loss Prevention and eDiscovery Subject Matter Expert joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative as they explore the challenge of "Insider Threats". Learn what an Insider Threat is and looks like, how to monitor and identify them, and examples of what can happen if you don't prepare for them. Tools mentioned by Kyle Schloss...

Over the last 11 weeks, guest co-host Alex Waintraub joined Jeff Edwards to discuss and explore the 10 most common flaws in Incident Response Plans. Each week, they had an industry expert guest come on the podcast to dive into each of those flaws in an effort to help Small & Medium sized businesses understand them and avoid them. In this session, Alex and Jeff discuss the 10 Flaws series, high...

Michael Wilkes, Chief Information Security Officer, Resilience Champion, Advisor, and Board Member joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the tenth common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of actually executing the plan. Listen in to these experts share insights and examples about the cost and im...

Paul Caron , Head of Cybersecurity - Americas at S-RM joins Jeff Edwards , Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub , Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to share insights about testing your Incident Response Plan. Failing to test your plan is the ninth common flaw in Incident Response Plans. Listen in to these experts to learn the importance of doing Table Top Exercis...

Matt Lee, Senior Director of Security and Compliance with Pax8 joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the eighth common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of failing to consider the Worst-Case Scenario. Listen in to these experts in this excellent session to learn the importance of considering the...

John Sharpe, Sr. Manager, Global Security Operations Center joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to discuss in detail the seventh common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of ensuring your plan is current and ready. Listen in to these experts to learn the importance of ensuring that your Incident Response...

Israel Bryski, Chief Information Security Officer at MIO Partners, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to discuss the sixth common flaw in Incident Response Plans which is improperly leveraging external expertise. Hear what these experts have to say about how to properly leverage external expertise to maximi...

Stu Panensky , Founding Partner at Law Firm Pierson Ferdinand LLP , joins Jeff Edwards , Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub , Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the Legal and Regulatory ramifications in Incident Response Plans. Not ensuring the Legal and Regulatory aspects in an Incident Response Plan is the Fifth Common Flaw. Listen in to these exper...

Randy Pargman , Director of Threat Detection at Proofpoint , joins Jeff Edwards , Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub , Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to examine the issue of not having a solid Communication Strategy and Solution which is the fourth common flaw in Incident Response Plans. Listen in to these experts to learn what can happen if you don't ha...

Aaron Goldstein, VP of Incident Response and Field Information Security Officer at Todyl, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the third common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of having organizational silos. Listen in to these experts to learn the dangers of organizational silos to your incid...

Frank Angiolelli, Founder and Managing Director of mSOC, author and Cybersecurity expert joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the second common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of not defining roles & responsibilities for a cyber event. Listen in to these experts to learn the importance of...

Ken Fishkin, Information Security and Privacy Evangelist, ISC2 Chapter President, and InfraGard Advisory Board Member joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative and guest host Alex Waintraub, Cyber Security, DFIR, and SOC Director to explore the first common flaw in Incident Response Plans, that of failing to plan. Listen in to these experts to learn the importance of planning and wh...

Alex Waintraub, Cybersecurity and DFIR expert consultant joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to introduce him and his observations over his career about the 10 most common flaws in Incident Response Plans. This session is the introduction to the 10 common flaws in Incident Response Plans as Alex will join Jeff for the next 10 weeks as Co-Host of the SafeHouse Podcast. Alex and...

Daniel Eliot, Lead for Small Business Engagement, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Applied Cybersecurity Division, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to discuss the new Cybersecurity Quick Start Guide for Small and Medium sized businesses. This session, tailored for SMB's, will discuss the cybersecurity controls that every business should imp...

Rick Lemieux, Founding Member & Executive Director of the DVMS Institute, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to discuss why cybersecurity risk management is not just a technical issue, but is a very real business issue. Learn about what you need to do if your a small business owner to protect yourself, without all the technical jargon or details. Rick does a great job of...

Matt Quamen, Co-Founder and President of Optimize Cyber, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to discuss practical ways of protecting you and your business from Financial Fraud. Learn the basic things every business owner should do immediately to protect themselves from falling victim to Financial Fraud.

Subject Matter Expert Jason Butler joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to discuss how to manage Third Party Risk. Learn about the key issues surrounding utilizing Third Parties in your business, and how to minimize and mitigate the associated risk. Edited and Produced by David Lewis

Curtis Preston, Backup & Cyber Recovery Expert, aka "Mr. Backup" joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative once again to discuss things to watchout for when using backups to restore and resume business operations after a cyberattack or ransomware attack. Edited and Produced by David Lewis

Podcast 4: Volume 5: In our final series episode, Roger Grimes, noted industry author and cybersecurity expert, joins Jeff Edwards, Co-Chair of the SafeHouse Initiative to reveal Implementation Examples of a Data-Driven Computer Defense, which is Part 3 of his new book covering Chapters 9 – 13. Learn more about Rogers Book, Data-Driven Computer Defense: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Driven-Computer-...