Business Security Weekly

What keeps the cyber C-Suite up at night? What are their main priorities, and how do they articulate them to board? In this session, we’ll go behind the screens and find out what CISOs from all over the world really think in terms of making turning cyber risk into business risk.

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In the leadership and communications section, Why CISOs Make Great Board Members, Unlock Your Leadership Potential: 12 Must-Read Books to Take Your Skills to the Next Level, How To Get People To Listen To You, and more!

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Richard Seiersen and our guest, Doug Hubbard, are finishing the second edition of How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk. Doug is here to share the success of the first edition and preview the second edition. With more insights, the second edition will share more more research data, free tools, and new concepts like FrankenSME. If you're a risk management professional or want to learn more about risk management, don't miss this interview.

In the leadership and communications section, 8 Questions to Ask Before Selecting a New Board Leader, How Cybersecurity Leaders Can Build Employee Trust—And Why It Is Important, 7 rules to communicate the business value of IT, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes!

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In the leadership and communications section, The CISO Role is Broken, Five Cybersecurity Resolutions CISOs Can Actually Keep In 2023, Are Cyber Attacks at Risk of Becoming ‘Uninsurable’?, and more!

SolarWinds has been on the journey of Secure by Design since the Sunburst incident in late 2020. Secure by Design is a practical approach to minimizing risk. It involves advanced build systems, an assumed breach model, proactive testing, audit, increased visibility and sharing lessons externally.

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With the current macro economic head winds, 2023 budgets are either frozen or are flat. Where should CISOs focus these limited budgets to maximize the most out of their security program? In this segment, we invite Jon Fredrickson, Chief Risk Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, to debate what should be in your minimum viable security program.

This segment is part 1 of 2 parts and focuses on the minimum viable security capabilities.

With the current macro economic head winds, 2023 budgets are either frozen or are flat. Where should CISOs focus these limited budgets to maximize the most out of their security program? In this segment, we invite Jon Fredrickson, Chief Risk Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, to debate what should be in your minimum viable security program.

This segment is part 2 and focuses on the minimum viable security vendors for our top 6 capabilities:

1. Asset Management
2. Patch Management
3. IAM/MFA/PIM/PAM
4. EDR/MDR/XDR
5. Backup/Recovery
6. Risk Management

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In the Leadership and Communications section, CISOs of the World, Unite!, 8 things to consider amid cybersecurity vendor layoffs, The Best Public Speakers Put the Audience First, and more!

Barracuda just finished an email security survey. We start to dig into the results and the impact for 2023, including:

• 86% of respondents in all the countries surveyed said third party email security solutions are essential to keep our Microsoft 365 environment secure
• This rises to 92% for respondents in the U.S.
• And to 91% for companies with between 250 and 499 employees

Also:

• Just under one in five (19%) of all respondents said their top email security concern with Microsoft 365 was data protection and the risk of data loss
• This rises to one in four (25%) among the frontline IT managers and professionals surveyed

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In the leadership and communications section, 5 top qualities you need to become a next-gen CISO, Ego Is the Enemy of Good Leadership, How To Explain Things Better, and more!

The U.S. is at an inflection point in terms of cyber threats; Critical infrastructure attacks are growing more frequent and consequential, and the White House recently called the cyber talent gap of nearly 770,000 open positions a “national security challenge.” Kelly Rozumalski, SVP at Booz Allen Hamilton leading the firm’s national cyber defense business, joins BSW to discuss why upskilling and reskilling are key to closing the cyber talent gap at the federal level and how a collective defense posture across government and private sector can enable us to better secure U.S. critical infrastructure. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes!

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Todd Fitzgerald, author of CISO Compass and host of CISO Stories, joins BSW to share his top leadership lessons from the first 100 episodes of CISO Stories. Todd interviews CISOs and gains insights into their challenges and how they are solving them. Don't miss this recap!

In the leadership and communications section, The Sacrificial CISO heralds a new age for cybersecurity, To Coach Leaders, Ask the Right Questions, How to Handle Criticism Gracefully: 12 Pro Tips, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes!

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In the leadership and communications section, Is Your Board Prepared for New Cybersecurity Regulations?, 32% of cybersecurity leaders considering quitting their jobs, 40 Jargon Words to Eliminate from Your Workplace Today, and more!

Positive change is coming to cybersecurity. In this segment, Mike Devine (CMO) and John Grancarich (EVP of Strategy) at Fortra discuss the business of leading a cybersecurity company, the reasons behind our recent rebrand, and our plans for continuing as a people-first company that collaborates with our customers to combat the threat landscape with confidence. This segment is sponsored by Fortra. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortra to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes!

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Threat actors use automation and technology to do evil at scale. Yet, even with cutting edge technology available to them, smaller organizations feel overwhelmed. Analysts struggle from the “alt-tab, swivel-chair” problem, and security products just don’t feel… powerful. So how does a SOC maximize its most valuable asset–the humans–in combination with technology to overachieve? This talk will teach you a new way to model out your team's resources, assets, and capabilities to defend against various levels of adversaries to determine where you have operational capability, where you have gaps, and how to tell the difference. This segment is sponsored by ExtraHop Networks. Visit https://securityweekly.com/extrahop to learn more about them!

After years of increases, security budgets are coming under scrutiny. Cybersecurity professionals need practical guidance on how to manage existing budget allocations and new requests for funding. This segment provides Forrester's spending benchmarks, insights, and recommendations to future-proof your security investments in ways that keep you on budget while simultaneously mitigating the risks facing your organization.

Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/new-security-risk-planning-guide-helps-cisos-set-2023-priorities/

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In the leadership and communications section, Is Cybersecurity Leadership Broken?, Cybersecurity career mistakes, 13 Cybersecurity Horror Stories to Give you Sleepless Nights, and more!

Cyber risk quantification should be at the center of an enterprise's actions to understand and measure risk posed in the event of a cyberattack. That data should then be used to estimate - financially - cyber risk exposure. To start this process, enterprises need 3 pillars to build a good cyber risk quantification program: the right data, appropriately skilled people and a methodology. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes!

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