Your Biggest Threats Don’t Get a Ransom Payment, They Get a Paycheck

04/02/24 • 36 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 me is our guest, Alex Green, CISO, Delta Dental.

In this episode:

Is it true that employees cause as many significant cybersecurity incidents as outside threat actors?
Does this come down to a lack of awareness or poorly designed security implementation?
And what can we do to improve this situation?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Silk Security

Silk makes it easy for security teams to resolve more critical cyber risks in a fraction of the time. Instead of toiling over spreadsheets, and watching alert backlog graphs go up, Silk helps security teams contextualize, prioritize and collaborate with stakeholders in IT to regain control over their risk posture.

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

In this episode:

Is it true that employees cause as many significant cybersecurity incidents as outside threat actors?
Does this come down to a lack of awareness or poorly designed security implementation?
And what can we do to improve this situation?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Silk Security

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A Stressed CISO Is a Happy CISO

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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, Shawn Bowen, svp and CISO, World Kinect Corporation.

In this episode:

Is it true that CISOs feel their jobs are harder than ever with higher levels of stress?
Yet why does research also show that CISO job satisfaction increasing?
How do we make sense of this contradiction?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Silk Security

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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, Joshua Brown, vp and global CISO, H&R Block.

In this episode:

Why is retaining cyber talent so hard?
How can organizations keep an employee from going elsewhere?
Why do organizations often not prioritize the factors to keep key employees?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, CyberMaxx

CyberMaxx offers MaxxMDR, our next-generation managed detection and response (MDR) solution that helps customers assess, monitor, and manage their cyber risks. MaxxMDR fuels defensive capabilities with insights from offensive security, DFIR, and threat hunting, on top of a technology-agnostic deployment model. We think like an adversary but defend like a guardian.