Season 3 Episode 6: Solar Winds Breach Analysis

06/25/21 • 21 min

In this episode of NextExec, Brooke and Haylee discuss the SolarWinds supply chain attack that has captured many cybersecurity headlines this year. Our guests bring a much needed dose of hacker lingo and chatter to our podcast while they break down the technical details of the attack for our listeners and discuss how the cybersecurity industry needs to be prepared to address these attacks.
Hosts:

Haylee Mills used to work as an animator and became a security content engineer working in a financial technology company with a passion for risk-based behavioral alerting systems and cybersecurity education outreach.

Brooke Miller is a data solution specialist who has worked in the cybersecurity field for five years. She works at a large insurance company in Columbus Ohio.

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Brooke Miller is a data solution specialist who has worked in the cybersecurity field for five years. She works at a large insurance company in Columbus Ohio.

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Season 3 Episode 5: A Day in My Life: Respecting the user’s choice (Privacy Engineer)

In this episode, Alicia chats with Divya, a privacy engineer at Google. Divya talks about the different manifestations of the role of a privacy engineer and how her work is an amalgamation of different disciplines such as philosophy, legal, policy, theory and systems. Hear about the technical considerations that are in scope as part of respecting the user’s choice in designing products and services.
Guest:

Divya Sharma is a Senior Privacy Engineer in the Search and Assistant Privacy Engineering team at Google. Previously, she has held roles as privacy engineering lead for Google AI Healthcare Research and for Google Assistant, as part of the Central Privacy and Security team. Her research interests lie at the intersection of privacy and security, explainability, applied machine learning and human‐computer interaction.

Prior to Google, Divya was part of the Technology Associates Program at Thomson Reuters where she worked on the `Privacy by Design' initiative and as part of the Applied ML Research team. Divya completed her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in data privacy and security.
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Alicia Villalpando is a Sr. Data Privacy Analyst at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Alicia supports various privacy initiatives across the organization, including the implementation of a privacy management platform and localized data subject rights processes. Prior to joining SPE, Alicia worked as a privacy associate for a large toy company where she worked on GDPR preparedness and privacy certification for IoT products.

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Season 3 Episode 7: A Day in My Life: Healthcare AI Customer Success Director

In this episode of the Next Exec podcast, Ashley sits down with Christa White, Vice President of Customer Success and Services at Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform that empowers health systems to monitor patient privacy and drug diversion through artificial intelligence. Christa shares her journey to Customer Success, the importance of her role and a customer friendly view of the in depth analytics that build trust, uncover patient risk, and identity potential theft and misuse of controlled substances in healthcare organizations.

Guest:

Christa White is the VP, Customer Success and Services at Protenus. She has been a member of the Protenus team since October 2016. In her time at Protenus, she has grown the Customer Success division from a team of one to a team of six Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and six professional services consultants. Her role involves collaborating across the revenue, product, and technical operations teams to streamline and optimize the customer journey, and crafting meaningful customer relationship management initiatives. She is also the community manager for the Protenus PANDAS (People and Analytics) user group, which hosts quarterly webinars and an annual conference with over 250 compliance professionals at the top healthcare organizations across the country.

Prior to Protenus, Christa gained experience in leadership, customer engagement, training, and support for software platforms. She spent eight years at Booz Allen Hamilton as a Senior Technologist. Her experience there ranged from managing a support/training team for thousands of global users to developing and delivering precision technical documentation for DoD clients. Christa holds an MBA from the combined University of Baltimore/Towson University program. She received her BS in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Economics from Loyola University Maryland.

Host:

Ashley McArthur-Dean is a Senior Consultant at Deloitte the Risk & Financial Advisory practice with a focus in Cyber Data Privacy. She has over ten years of experience in the healthcare industry including privacy monitoring, data governance and project execution. She has experience and knowledge in HIPAA Security and Privacy Rules, compliance, information security, data analytics, risk management and privacy regulations. She previously led the planning and execution of training, workflow, and operational readiness during mergers & acquisitions, supported enterprise-wide compliance and privacy initiatives including audit readiness, program maturity, and access / process controls. Ashley has provided services to clients in the commercial, healthcare, and life sciences industries.

Ashley has the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, is OneTrust Certified, and has her Masters in Business Administration.

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