Episode 11: Becoming a CISO... Why?? With Chuck Herrin

02/17/23 • 111 min

Cybersecurity Distilled with Andy Bennett

Andy Bennett, CISO of Apollo Information Systems, chats with Chuck Herrin, Wib API Security CTO and CISO. They go into the CISO career path and how they “accidented” into it, as well as how to navigate large organizations and critical topics like how to get a free shirt after a merger and words of Wisdom from “A Bug’s Life.” We also learn how to pronounce CISO, SEIM, and GIF! And Chuck breaks the lightning round.

Mentions:
Chuck Herrin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-h-securityexecutive/

Wib: https://wib.com/

Andy Bennett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cisoandy/

Apollo Information Systems: https://apollo-is.com/

Mentions:
Chuck Herrin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-h-securityexecutive/

Wib: https://wib.com/

Andy Bennett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cisoandy/

Apollo Information Systems: https://apollo-is.com/

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Episode 10: CISO v. DevOps AMA with Elliot Graebert

Andy Bennett, CISO of Apollo Information Systems, opens up the floor to dev ops extraordinaire, coder, and advisor Elliot Graebert to chat about things CISOs want to know from dev ops and vice versa. They dive deep into the importance of cooperation and collaboration, the need for putting security early into project development, and why a sustainable workforce is better than a heroic one. We learn that Andy has a new chainsaw, what a guillotine is, and that Elliot’s daughter really, really, really likes the number 8.
Mentions:
Loonshots by Safi Bahcall

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

And Elliot’s blog on Medium!

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Episode 12: The "Intelligent" Part of Threat Intelligence

Andy Bennett, CISO of Apollo Information Systems, chats with Apollo's new Threat Intelligence lead Jennifer Gold. They go into career trajectories and embracing "unplanned rapid disassembly" (failure). Andy doesn't understand why SpaceX needed to do the flippy maneuver thing. Jennifer was on MTV's Apartment 2F! Jennifer and Andy dive deep into threat intelligence, taking a proactive posture in cybersecurity, how responsible disclosures work, and cybersecurity fundamentals.
Mentions:
Jennifer Gold: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferfarrellgold/

Andy Bennett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cisoandy/

Apollo Information Systems: https://apollo-is.com/