CISO Series Podcast

David Spark, Mike Johnson, and Andy Ellis

Discussions, tips, and debates from security practitioners and vendors on how to work better together to improve security for themselves and everyone else.

670 - Our Security Team's Love Language is Buying New Tools

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CISO Series Podcast

Episodios

Our Security Team's Love Language is Buying New Tools

If We Can't Do Better, at Least Do It Faster

We Gave the CISO Risk and Liability, and Now They Want Authority. The Nerve.

When We See White Smoke, We Know We Have a New CISO

Take Two-Factor Authentication and Call Me in the Morning

I'll Show You Our Resilience Plan Once Our Cloud Storage Is Back Online

AI Is Very Efficient at Making Us Forget the Value of Humans

Managing Risk Has Been a Priority Ever Since You Asked About It (LIVE in NYC)

Imagine Scaling Mistakes 5x Faster. Thank You, Automation! (LIVE in NY)

How Much Risk Would a CISO Risk if a CISO Could Risk Risk? (LIVE in Boca Raton)

I'm Worried That We're Not Worried About the Right Worries With AI

You Can't Fall Behind in AI if You Never Start

Why Architect for Human Error When We Can Make People Feel Really Bad About It?

Are You Implying This Line Graph Isn't a Compelling Cybersecurity Narrative?

Our CISO Certainly Puts the Tool in Multi-Tool (LIVE in LA)

I Don't Just Guess About Effectiveness, I Make Educated Guesses!

It's a Little Hard to Evaluate New Solutions When You're Screaming "AI" at Me All the Time (Live in Houston)

Dear Abby: Why Should I Trust a Vendor Selling Me Zero Trust?

The Difference with AI Red Teaming is We Added the Word AI

Don't Worry, We'll Get to Solving Your Problem on Slide 87

We Can Name 50 CISOs. Let's Give Them an Award!

C is for C-Suite, Except If You're a CISO

Part Man. Part Machine. All CISO. (Live in D.C.)

Is This Just Bad Or "Call The Feds" Bad?

Giving Slack Slack Will Lead Your Teams to Discord

Please Take Some Pens and Our Company Data On Your Way Out

If You Care About Security, Maybe This Guilt Tactic Will Work

5 Years Required to Write a Better Job Description

When Do I Fix the Toilet Myself or Call the Plumber?

Cyber Advice So Generic, You'll Assume It Came from ChatGPT

Vendors Are From Mars. Their Security Is From Venus.

We're So Special Gartner Hasn't Even Thought Of Our Category Yet

Who's in Charge of Stopping Stupid Ideas? (LIVE in Tel Aviv)

Password Rules Make Us Feel More Secure

Make Them a Passwordless Offer They Can't Refuse (LIVE in Denver)

After a Breach, Security and Privacy Are Very Important to Us

Your Lips Say "No," But I'm Not Listening

Failure Is The Likely Option

A Fireman? A Princess? How About a CISO?

I've Got Plenty of Risk If You Want More

What Kind of Challenges Do You Foresee In Firing Me?

I Wouldn't Trust Everything You Read… On My Resume

Can't You Just Pop Out of Zeus' Head a Fully Formed Security Professional?

We'd Secure Our Data If We Knew Where It Was

Our Security Tool Can Do Everything But Mitigate Risk

No Need for Chaos Engineering Since Our Architecture Is Always Failing

Why Aren't You On Slack Where I Can Interrupt You?

Fast Track Burnout for Your Cyber Team with Layoffs

We Look for Candidates Who Already Know Everything

We're Experts At Telling You To Fix Your Problems