Cybersecurity Unplugged

Mark Cristiano, the commercial director of global business services for Rockwell Automation, has spent the last 30 years in IT and enterprise and manufacturing systems leadership, about 19 of which were spent with Rockwell Automation.

Rob Clyde is a senior board director of ISACA, the chairman of the board for White Cloud Security and an advisor to ShardSecure. Rob has a long history in cybersecurity education and training.

ISACA's recent 2021 State of Cybersecurity Study reported that 61% of respondents say that cybersecurity teams are understaffed and 55% report that they have unfilled cybersecurity positions. Among other topics, Rob and Steve theorize about the best strategies to close the cybersecurity skills and talent gap, from training non-security employees to pivot in their career to educating children in K-12.

Tal Kollender is the CEO, co-founder and CISO of GYTPOL, a company whose product monitors and remediates risks caused by misconfigurations. GYTPOL changes the way organizations protect themselves by seeing their network through the eyes of a hacker.

In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Tal Kollender discusses:

• The lessons learned from the Colonial Pipeline attack;
• How GYTPOL "thinks like a hacker" in order to prevent hacks;
• How misconfiguration is the largest attack vector and how to fix it;
• Marketing noise in the cybersecurity space.

Elisabeth Braw, is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine. She also frequently writes op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Politico.

In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Braw discusses:

• The Colonial Pipeline attack and our lack of preparedness;
• How to create more public awareness about responding to cyberattacks;
• The history of solar and our resource dependencies on China;
• How narcissism is a national security threat.

Speed is the enemy of security and as 5G is widely adopted and internet speeds increase, the threat also increases. In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Dr. Rebecca Wynn discusses: The future of work-from-home; The impact of 5G on cybersecurity; The difficulties of securing the healthcare sector; And artificial intelligence and deep fakes.