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Budget Planning Guide 2025: Security And Risk - Jeff Pollard - BSW #368
October 15, 2024
In today’s uncertain macroeconomic environment, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary requests. Jeff Pollard, Vice-President, Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team at Forrester...
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Run Your Security Program Like an Election Campaign - Kush Sharma - BSW #367
October 08, 2024
Does the CISO need to act like a politician? Negotiating budgets, communicating risks, and selling your strategy across the organization does sound a little like a politician. And if that's the case, are you hiring the right campaign staff? Kush...
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How to Attain Zero Trust - Rob Allen - BSW #366
October 01, 2024
The zero-trust security model has been billed as an ultra-safe defense against emerging, unrecognized and well-known threats. Unlike perimeter security, it doesn't assume people inside an organization are automatically safe. Instead, it requires every...
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Authentication and Authorization in the AI Era - Shiven Ramji - BSW #365
September 23, 2024
In the leadership and communications segment, CISA Releases Cyber Defense Alignment Plan for Federal Agencies, UnitedHealth Group CISO: We had to ‘start over’ after Change Healthcare attack, 20 Essential Strategies for Leadership Development...
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Solving the Cybersecurity Data Problem - Padraic O'Reilly - BSW #364
September 17, 2024
Cybersecurity is complex. We have threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, controls, risks, etc. But how do they all connect together to drive a cyber risk program? As an industry, we've struggled for 20+ years trying to boil this ocean. Maybe we've been...
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Cybersecurity and the Business - Theresa Lanowitz - BSW #363
September 10, 2024
Cybersecurity resilience, different from cyber resilience, is critical as threats grow in frequency and complexity. With digital innovation driving business, cybersecurity resilience is essential for maintaining stakeholder trust and compliance. But...
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Leadership Lessons from the First 100 Episodes of CISO Stories - Todd Fitzgerald - BSW Vault
September 02, 2024
Check out this episode from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This episode was initially published on November 29, 2022. Todd Fitzgerald, author of CISO Compass and host of CISO Stories, joins BSW to share his top leadership...
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The Changing Risk Landscape: CISO Liability - Darren Shou - BSW #362
August 26, 2024
How are personal liability and indemnification impacting the CISO role? Darren Shou, Chief Strategy Officer from RSA Conference, describes the current landscape of CISO liability and the challenges facing CISOs today. He discusses the implications of...
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Why Cyber Resilience Matters - Andrew Harding, Theresa Lanowitz - BSW #361
August 19, 2024
What are the barriers to cyber resilience today? Why is it so difficult? And what is coming next, that will generate resilience challenges further down the line? After five years of focusing on the short- and medium-term future of cybersecurity and...
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Security Money: Crowdstrike Crashes the Index - BSW #360
August 12, 2024
This week, it’s time for security money, our quarterly review of the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. This quarter, Crowdstrike crashes the index, as Thoma Bravo acquires...
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Say Easy, Do Hard - Job Search Strategies for CISOs - Part 1 - Merlin Namuth, Brad Rager - BSW #359
August 05, 2024
Inspired by my co-host Jason Albuquerque, this quarter's Say Easy, Do Hard segment is Job Search Strategies for CISOs. In part 1, we discuss the challenges facing the CISO role and it's hiring. As CISOs leave the role, the position is not necessarily...
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Identity Security Posture Management - Allan Alford, Dor Fledel - BSW #358
July 29, 2024
Identity, the security threat that keeps on giving. For the 17th year in a row, identity is one of the top threats identified in the Verizon DBIR. Why? Dor Fledel, Senior Director of Product Management at Okta and Co-Founder of Spera, joins Business...
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Closing CISO-CEO Communication Gap Requires a Common Business Language - Sumedh Thakar, Jeff Recor - BSW #357
July 23, 2024
Back in April, we covered a story on episode #348 titled "CISO-CEO communication gaps continue to undermine cybersecurity". In that article, Sumedh Thakar, the CEO at Qualys, stated "CISOs must translate technical risks into business impact for CEOs."...
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Solving the Complexities of Cyber Insurance for SMBs - Brian Fritton - BSW #356
July 15, 2024
Cyber insurance underwriting is all over the map. With such a variation in application requirements, how should small and medium businesses prepare to receive the best policy for the price? Brian Fritton joins Business Security Weekly to discuss a...
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Technology Rationalization in Cybersecurity - Max Shier - BSW #355
July 08, 2024
On average, CISOs manage 50-75 security products. Many of these products have either not been deployed or only partially deployed, while others overlap of products. How do CISOs effectively consolidate their products to a manageable size? Max Shier,...
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CISOs 2023 Planning Guide: Forecast The Recession's Impact On Your Program - Jeff Pollard - BSW Vault
July 01, 2024
Check out this interview from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on October 11, 2022. As 2023 approaches, security leaders are hard at work preparing their budgets, identifying their projects,...
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Building a Successful API Security Strategy - Luke Babarinde, Bhawna Singh - BSW #354
June 25, 2024
With 71% of web traffic coming from API calls last year and the average organization maintaining 613 API endpoints, a robust strategy is needed to protect APIs against automated threats and business logic attacks. Tune in as Luke Babarinde, Global...
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Zero Trust Is Not A SKU - Saša Zdjelar - BSW Vault
June 17, 2024
Check out this interview from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on August 9, 2022. Zero Trust is the security buzzword of the moment, and while it is a very powerful approach, nearly every...
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The State of the Cybersecurity Market, At Least According to Gartner - Vivek Ramachandran, Carl Froggett, Padraic O'Reilly - BSW #353
June 10, 2024
Did you miss Gartner Security & Risk Management last week in National Harbor, MD? Don't worry, Padraic O'Reilly, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at CyberSaint, joins us to discuss the hot topics that were presented at the conference last...
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Emotional Intelligence for Cyber Leaders - James Doggett, Jessica Hoffman, Sivan Tehila - BSW #352
June 03, 2024
Since the 1995 publication of Daniel Goleman’s international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, a global movement has developed to bring “EQ” into practice in businesses, schools, and communities around the globe....
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The VC Perspective: Embracing Uncertainty & Staying the Course - Alberto Yépez - BSW Vault
May 27, 2024
Check out this interview from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on June 27, 2022. Forgepoint Capital’s Co-Founder and Managing Director, Alberto Yépez, explains what the current economic...
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Shifting Third Party Risk & What You Need to Know About PCI DSS 4.0 - Lynn Marks, Paul Valente - BSW Vault
May 27, 2024
Explore how to transform your third party risk program from a business bottleneck to a business driver. Discover how evidence-based security documentation and AI can streamline risk assessments, completing them in days not months. This data-driven...
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Security Money: Rubrick Saves The Index As It Continues To Climb - Jim Simpson, Theresa Lanowitz - BSW #351
May 20, 2024
This week, it’s time for security money, our quarterly review of the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. This quarter, Rubrick's IPO saves the index, as Cisco finishes the...
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Identity Resilience: The Next Frontier in Security - Hed Kovetz, Ray Zadjmool, Jeff Margolies - BSW #350
May 13, 2024
In today's enterprises, the Identity Access Management (IAM) System is the key to a business' critical operations. But that IAM environment is more vulnerable than most security executives realize. Segment Resources: This segment is sponsored by...
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Say Easy, Do Hard - Train How You Fight, Part 1 - Malcolm Harkins - BSW #349
May 06, 2024
Inspired by my co-host Jason Albuquerque, this quarter's Say Easy, Do Hard segment is Train How You Fight. In part 1, we discuss the importance of training for a cyber incident. However, lots of organizations do not take it seriously, causing mistakes...Loading