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In this episode, we interview Jake Wilson, Western Governor University's Security Awareness Evangelist. We'll learn about how he built up and matured WGU's security awareness program, eliminating blind spots, and improving efficacy through data analysis and better reporting.

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This week in the leadership and communications section: building a feedback-driven culture, letting go of the reins, 25 hard-hitting lessons from 17 years in cybersecurity, and more!

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Organizations still struggle with DDoS, ransomware, and personal information exfiltration. In order the prevent these attacks, we first need to understand the ‘types’ of DDoS and emerging threat techniques used by the adversary. In this interview, we explore these attacks in the context of edge computing. As edge computing use cases evolve, organizations need to understand the intersection of edge computing, networking, and cybersecurity. We discuss the risks associated with edge computing, the controls that can mitigate these risks, and how to plan for implementation, including security budgeting.

Segment Resources: https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/defeating-triple-extortion-ransomware

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In the leadership and communications section, Board Members Struggling to Understand Cyber Risks, Cybersecurity Goals Conflict With Business Aims, Navigating Change: The Essence of Agile Leadership, and more!

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Managing identities continues to add complexity for granting access to enterprise resources. Between the increasing number and expanding types of identities, including carbon-based, silicon-based, and artificial identities, and the evolution of cloud computing and remote work, managing the perimeter is now an identity problem. What risks do each of these identity types pose and how do you mitigate them?

Jeff Reich, Executive Director at Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), joins us to discuss the challenges of digital identities, how to discover risk with digital identities, and how best to mitigate those risks.

Segment Resources: IDSA's 2023 Trends in Security Digital Identities: https://www.idsalliance.org/white-paper/2023-trends-in-securing-digital-identities/

Securing Your Remote Workforce Through Identity-Centric Security: https://www.idsalliance.org/white-paper/securing-your-remote-workforce-through-identity-centric-security/

In the leadership and communications section, The importance of CISOs is not recognised by senior leadership, The secret habits of top-performing CISOs, Get Free copies of two of our favorite leadership books, and more!

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Check out this interview from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on March 15, 2021.

In 1989, Stephen Covey first published "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," empowering and inspiring leaders for over 25 years. Is there an equivalent or new set of habits for CISOs? George Finney, Chief Security Officer at Southern Methodist University, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the Nine Cybersecurity Habits.

The metaverse is an evolving storytelling environment in which humans have congregated for millennia to experience alternate, immersive, and simulated realities, with or without technology. Storytelling is designed to influence mental and physical perceptions suiting the purposes of the content creators.

Metawar is the art of applying science to create and defend against the influence of alternate realities in the metaverse. What if we can longer rely on our senses to determine what is real and what is fiction?

Winn's research into Metawar initially focused on metaversal technologies. Unexpectedly, it morphed into an intensely personal experience, triggering Winn's own Metanoia, which had a profound impact on the entire Metawar Thesis. Winn joins Business Security Weekly to share his Metanoia.

In the leadership and communications section, A CISO's Actionable Strategy for Success, Security basics aren’t so basic — they’re hard, Building a Culture Where Employees Feel Free to Speak Up, and more!

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The Security Weekly 25 Index is still trying to recover. Inflation fears have tampered the recovery and the NASDAQ is outperforming the Index. Fastly replaces Sumo Logic in the Index and Thoma Bravo has not acquired anyone, so hoping the index stays stable for more than a quarter :). Here's the latest list of companies in the index:

Secureworks Corp Palo Alto Networks Inc Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Splunk Inc Gen Digital Inc Fortinet Inc Akamai Technologies, Inc. F5 Inc Zscaler Inc Onespan Inc Leidos Holdings Inc Qualys Inc Verint Systems Inc. Cyberark Software Ltd Tenable Holdings Inc Darktrace PLC SentinelOne Inc Cloudflare Inc Crowdstrike Holdings Inc NetScout Systems, Inc. Varonis Systems Inc Rapid7 Inc Fastly Inc Radware Ltd A10 Networks Inc

Ransomware-as-a-Service has contributed to a steady rise in sophisticated ransomware attacks. Ransomware authors are increasingly staying under the radar by launching encryption-less attacks which involve large volumes of data exfiltration. Organizations must move away from using legacy point products and instead migrate to a fully integrated zero trust platform that minimizes their attack surface, prevents compromise, reduces the blast radius in the event of a successful attack, and prevents data exfiltration.

Segment Resources: https://www.zscaler.com/press/zscaler-2023-ransomware-report-shows-nearly-40-increase-global-ransomware-attacks

https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/2023-phishing-report-reveals-472-surge-phishing-attacks-last-year

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The security mediascape is buzzing with discussions around the growing threat of generative AI. But, how can we use this powerful new weapon for good? In this executive interview, IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti walks us through the ways in which generative AI can be used to significantly harden organizations’ cyber defenses, and even unveils the latest, cutting-edge tools to be added to IRONSCALES’ growing AI suite of capabilities. Meet IRONSCALES’ Themis Co-Pilot for Outlook and learn how your team can use artificial intelligence to tip the scales back in your favor.

Segment Resources:

https://ironscales.com/company/news-awards/news/ironscales-announces-themis-copilot

Video: https://youtu.be/ayn8ecsNgKY

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In the leadership and communications section, CISO is Crisis, Will SEC Cybersecurity Regulations Make a Difference?, NIST Drafts Major Update to Its Widely Used Cybersecurity Framework, and more!

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On July 31st, 2023, the Biden administration released a national strategy addressing cyber workforce shortages, calling long-standing vacancies a national security imperative. The National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy focuses on four major pillars: equipping every American with cyber skills, transforming cyber education, expanding and enhancing the national cyber workforce and strengthening the federal cyber workforce. The strategy relies heavily on non-governmental and private sector entities to provide funding, internship and apprenticeship programs to increase the number of workers with cybersecurity skills.

One of those entities referenced in the strategy is Dakota State University. Dr. José-Marie Griffiths joins us to discuss education's role in the strategy, but offers other insights, including:

• immigration policies and how it limits the current cyber workforce,
• diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and the reduction of women in the cyber workforce, and
• what can the cyber community do to help.

Segment Resources: https://www.dsucyber27.com/ https://dsu.edu/programs/artificial-intelligence-bs.html https://dsu.edu/programs/computer-science-artificial-intelligence.html

In the leadership and communications section, How CISOs can engage the C-suite and Board to manage and address cyber risk, CISOs Need Backing to Take Charge of Security, It’s OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Right, and more!

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Some organizations are banning ChatGPT and other generative AI models out of fear of the risks they could introduce. While this is understandable, the reality is generative AI is accelerating so fast that, very soon, banning it in the workplace will be like blocking employee access to their web browser.

Randy Lariar, Practice Director of Big Data, AI and Analytics at Optiv, will discuss how to embrace the new technology and shift the focus from preventing it in the workplace to adopting it safely and securely. We will discuss the challenges and benefits of generative AI, including:

• How to detect AI tools and usage
• How to develop policies and procedures for using AI tools
• How the protect the models, data, and infrastructure to support AI tools
• What are the regulatory requirements that may impact AI tools and usage
• What are the benefits of using AI tools

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CYBER.ORG, in partnership with CISA, is helping create a diverse cyber workforce by breaking down the barriers to cybersecurity education by improving access for all K-12 students nationwide. CYBER.ORG’s HBCU feeder program Project REACH was recently highlighted in CISA’s 2022 Year in Review as part of the agency’s commitment to improving diversity and accessibility in the field.

Laurie Salvail, Director of CYBER.ORG, joins BSW to discuss: - Why the expansion of K-12 cybersecurity education is the first step toward building a diverse talent pipeline. - How CYBER.ORG has implemented initiatives to drive diversity in cybersecurity including: - Project REACH, the HBCU feeder program launched across the country to build the next-gen workforce, and its plans to expand kickoff events in 2023. - Project Access, a program for the blind and visually impaired who are in pre-employment transition (Pre-ETS), and the summer camps on the horizon. - CYBER.ORG’s plans to expand diversity and inclusion efforts in the coming year to Hispanic-serving institutions.

Segment Resources: To learn more about CYBER.ORG or to get involved, visit: https://www.cyber.org

This week in the leadership and communications section: the SEC is asking for comments on Cybersecurity on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 10:00 a.m - Be there and tell them what you think of their cybersecurity regulations! Google has a new AI tool for journalism, Sergey Brin is back at Google, paving the path for "Blue-Collar AI" professionals, and more!

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