
Episode 6 - Security, Privacy & A Whole lot of *** with special guest, @techwithtaz
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10/22/20 • 37 min
Episode 6 - Security, Privacy, and a lot of ** with Tazin Khan Norelius.
In episode 6, we're chatting with our first guest to the show, cybersecurity specialist, empath, and critical thinker Taz (@techwithtaz). With over 10 years in the security space, Taz works to bring mindfulness into Cyber Security while making noise around the lack of consumer data ownership and privacy. We talk about:
- The importance of consumer awareness and education relative to security, data privacy & tech ethics.
- Why tech companies don't really want everyone's opinion & why capitalism wins.
- Empowering consumers through education in an accessible, approachable way and at scale through her research organization Cyber Collective and her weekly video series security, privacy, and a lot of other bullsh*t.
- Amplifying underrepresented voices.
- Why you should always ask questions vs unconsciously clicking and sharing.
- And why she recommends a consistent digital/social media detox's every weekend.
(This episode contains some expletive language)
Resources
- Learn more about Taz @ techwithtaz.com // Follow her on Twitter @techwithtaz
- Learn more about her org Cyber Collective @ https://www.cybercollective.org/ & on Instagram @cybercollectiveorg
- Find out about upcoming CyCo events at https://www.cybercollective.org/events
Follow us on Twitter
Music
- Track: Too much ice
- Artist: Young Kartz via freemusicarchive.org
Episode 6 - Security, Privacy, and a lot of ** with Tazin Khan Norelius.
In episode 6, we're chatting with our first guest to the show, cybersecurity specialist, empath, and critical thinker Taz (@techwithtaz). With over 10 years in the security space, Taz works to bring mindfulness into Cyber Security while making noise around the lack of consumer data ownership and privacy. We talk about:
- The importance of consumer awareness and education relative to security, data privacy & tech ethics.
- Why tech companies don't really want everyone's opinion & why capitalism wins.
- Empowering consumers through education in an accessible, approachable way and at scale through her research organization Cyber Collective and her weekly video series security, privacy, and a lot of other bullsh*t.
- Amplifying underrepresented voices.
- Why you should always ask questions vs unconsciously clicking and sharing.
- And why she recommends a consistent digital/social media detox's every weekend.
(This episode contains some expletive language)
Resources
- Learn more about Taz @ techwithtaz.com // Follow her on Twitter @techwithtaz
- Learn more about her org Cyber Collective @ https://www.cybercollective.org/ & on Instagram @cybercollectiveorg
- Find out about upcoming CyCo events at https://www.cybercollective.org/events
Follow us on Twitter
Music
- Track: Too much ice
- Artist: Young Kartz via freemusicarchive.org
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Episode 5- The State of the Union (The Colors of InfoSec Podcast Recap)
Episode 5- The State of the Union (The Colors of InfoSec Podcast Recap)
In this recap episode, Asif and Christina talk about recent news, their goals for starting this podcast, a recap of episodes and discussions, how they feel the podcast is going, and the future (yes! to more infosec topics).
Resources
- Asif - What is a tabletop exercise? https://www.cisa.gov/publication/cisa-tabletop-exercise-package
- Christina's - blog (recent news) https://www.christinamorillo.com/blog/goodbye-microsoft
- 97 Things for InfoSec Professionals....book - Learn more about contributing here
- Episode 1 - Introducing the Colors of InfoSec Podcast
- All Episodes - ColorsofInfoSec.com
- Buzzsprout YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/buzzsprout
- Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected]
Follow us on Twitter
Music
- Track: Too much ice
- Artist: Young Kartz via freemusicarchive.org
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Episode 7 - Security with Grace with special guest and InfoSec Leader, Charles Nwatu
Episode 7 - Security with Grace with special guest and InfoSec Leader, Charles Nwatu
In this extraordinary episode, we chat with Engineering Manager, Corporate Security & Security Technology at Netflix, Charles Nwatu (@charles_nwatu) about all things DFIR, Risk, Communications and so much more.
We talk about:
- His start in Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) and move into Risk Quant, Compliance Engineering & Automation.
- Recommendations for getting started in DFIR &
- Getting into security via the Cloud versus "traditional routes"
- Security with Grace, which he defines as meeting people where they are and helping them through their respective journeys.
- The importance of communication, storytelling, narratives, and how this helps to bridge the communication gap between security and the business.
Resources
- Connect with Charles
- Twitter: @charles_nwatu
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cnwatu/
- Charles's book recommendation on writing powerful sentences: It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences, by June Casagrande
Follow us on Twitter
Music
- Track: Too much ice
- Artist: Young Kartz via freemusicarchive.org
Colors of InfoSec Podcast - Episode 6 - Security, Privacy & A Whole lot of *** with special guest, @techwithtaz
Transcript
Welcome to the colors of InfoSec podcast, a podcast and mystifying, what it means to navigate a career in information, security and technology as people of color. I'm your host, Asafa Mott and I am Christina Merino , and we're here to give you an all access pass into tech and Infosec's past present and future.
Speaker 1We're celebrating cyber awareness month and we wanted to kick things off. Right? So
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