Manufacturers and supply chain organizations must prioritize limiting third-party risk as they produce, warehouse and deliver essential goods and medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Curtis Simpson, former VP and global CISO with multi-billion-dollar food marketer and distributor Sysco Corporation, in a podcast interview with SC Media. Houston-based Sysco is one of multiple companies…
Resilience is more than a buzzword, so is trust. Both are essential to developing a strong security posture, says Unisys Chief Trust Officer Tom Patterson, who also serves on the Cybersecurity Moonshot subcommittee. Please listen to Tom discuss resilience with SC Executive Editor Teri Robinson.
Recent U.S. efforts to ban the federal use of telecommunications equipment from Huawei Technologies and other Chinese companies are “malaligned” and “don’t make any sense to me,” said former Federal CIO Tony Scott in a podcast interview with SC Media. Scott, who served under former President Barack Obama and now operates as chairman of his own…
At RSA when the talk turned to coronavirus – as it most certainly did after major vendors like AT&T, IBM and Verizon pulled out of the show – security pros cautioned organizations to safeguard their resources and assets and minimize disruptions by preparing now. In addition to washing your hands and using hand sanitizer (ubiquitous…
This year, the coronavirus joined hippies, counterculture figures and hip tech geniuses who have made the trek to San Francisco for enlightenment, music and to share ideas. Actually, the coronavirus itself didn’t surface during RSA, but it certainly was the talk of the town. In this podcast Cymatic Chief Security and Trust Officer Malcolm Harkins…
Proposals for a U.S. federal law that would require tech companies to build backdoors into their end-to-end encrypted communications services sound like they are lifted from an authoritarian country’s playbook, warned Dr. Andrea Little Limbago, chief social scientist at Virtru, in a podcast interview with SC Media. Federal law enforcement authorities and the current White…
The saying goes: “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” But the more apt expression in this day and age might be “nobody knows you’re a bot.” Bots are becoming increasingly human-like, which presents a significant challenge to security professionals, website owners and social media network operators seeking to distinguish malicious and inauthentic bot…
Camille Francois remembers the day she learned that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was granting her the extraordinary opportunity to research the extent of Russia’s influence operations during 2016 presidential election campaign. SC Podcast “Our CEO [John Kelly]… said, ‘Hey Cam, what would you say if we had access to the actual data…
Eric O’Neill, national security strategist at endpoint security company Carbon Black and a former FBI counterterrorism operative, talks with SC Media Executive Editor Teri Robinson about his work to help bring down America’s first cyber spy Robert Hanssen.
SC Media Podcast She may have cheerfully strolled into your company’s reception area holding a gift basket and a USB drive with a special message from the sender. Or she may have sent you an email claiming she’s a college student interested in an internship program. Did you plug in that USB drive? Did you…
