
Our Help Desk Plaque Reads “Over 100,000 Threat Actors Served”
05/14/24 • 35 min
All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.
This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our guest, Martin Mazor, vp and CISO, onsemi.
In this episode:
- Has the shine worn off the cybersecurity promise of MFA?
- Why are threat actors increasingly finding ways to get around it?
- Given the high profile attacks we've seen getting around MFA, how much security stock should we put into it going forward?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Material Security
Material Security is a multi-layered email threat detection & response toolkit designed to stop attacks and reduce the threat surface across all of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Learn more at material.security.
All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.
This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our guest, Martin Mazor, vp and CISO, onsemi.
In this episode:
- Has the shine worn off the cybersecurity promise of MFA?
- Why are threat actors increasingly finding ways to get around it?
- Given the high profile attacks we've seen getting around MFA, how much security stock should we put into it going forward?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Material Security
Material Security is a multi-layered email threat detection & response toolkit designed to stop attacks and reduce the threat surface across all of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Learn more at material.security.
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