Episode 9: The Cyber Wheel of Doom with RJ Friedman

10/14/22 • 100 min

Cybersecurity Distilled with Andy Bennett

Andy Bennett, CISO of Apollo Information Systems chats with RJ Friedman, career CISO and CEO of dayONE Cyber. They play a game of Cyber Wheel of Doom to choose hot cybersecurity topics randomly. The wheel lands on a wide range of things including quantifying risk, how to make the best use of conferences, the value of certifications, addressing technical debt and asset management, understanding risk appetite, having hard conversations with employees and clients, and looking at the overall threat landscape. Tune in to find out what RJ did to surprise Andy enough into stopping the conversation to take a drink. Andy also tries to "stump the chump."

And RJ's shirt has ducks.

Find Andy Bennett on LinkedIn or at Apollo Information Systems.

Find RJ Friedman on LinkedIn and at dayONE Cyber .

And RJ's shirt has ducks.

Find Andy Bennett on LinkedIn or at Apollo Information Systems.

Find RJ Friedman on LinkedIn and at dayONE Cyber .

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Episode 8: Digital Forensics and Unpacking a Cybersecurity Career with Jacob Stauffer

Andy Bennett, CISO of Apollo Information Systems chats with security consultant, incident responder, Director of Operations of Coherent CYBER, and digital forensics analysis professor at UTSA, Jacob Stauffer. They talk about voting system security, teaching cybersecurity, digital forensic investigations, getting started in cybersecurity, and building successful teams.

And we learn about Velociraptor. The tool. Not the dinosaur.

Find Andy Bennett on LinkedIn or at Apollo Information Systems.

Find Jacob Stauffer on LinkedIn and at Coherent CYBER Education.

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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.
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And Elliot’s blog on Medium!