Business Security Weekly Episode #229 – August 23, 2021
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1. What Type of CISO Are You & Does It Align to Your Company’s Needs? – 03:00 PM-03:30 PM
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Announcements
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CyberRisk Alliance, in partnership with InfraGard, has launched the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Benchmark study. Measure your readiness for ransomware by completing the survey and getting your score. Visit https://securityweekly.com/CIRB to take the survey
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Security Weekly Unlocked will be held IN PERSON this December 5-7 at the Hilton Lake Buena Vista!
We are excited to announce our first round of speakers: Lesley Carhart, David Kennedy, Alyssa Miller, O’Shea Bowens, Marina Ciavatta, Patrick Coble, Chris Eng, Eric Escobar, Nick Leghorn, Michael Schladt, Kevin Johnson, and Justin Kohler!
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Visit https://securityweekly.com/ for more information!
Announcements
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CyberRisk Alliance, in partnership with InfraGard, has launched the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Benchmark study. Measure your readiness for ransomware by completing the survey and getting your score. Visit https://securityweekly.com/CIRB to take the survey
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Security Weekly Unlocked will be held IN PERSON this December 5-7 at the Hilton Lake Buena Vista!
We are excited to announce our first round of speakers: Lesley Carhart, David Kennedy, Alyssa Miller, O’Shea Bowens, Marina Ciavatta, Patrick Coble, Chris Eng, Eric Escobar, Nick Leghorn, Michael Schladt, Kevin Johnson, and Justin Kohler!
Visit https://securityweekly.com/unlocked to register and check out our rockstar lineup!
Description
Ben Carr, Qualys CISO, joins Business Security Weekly to share his views on the evolving role of the CISO. He’ll dive into the ever changing risks and how CISOs need to understand those risks to be truly aligned to the business. He will also discuss the different types of CISOs and how to align your direction and focus with that of a company’s needs.
This segment is sponsored by Qualys.
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Guest(s)
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Ben Carr – CISO at Qualys Ben Carr, is the Chief Information Security Officer at Qualys. Ben is an information security and risk executive and thought leader with more than 25 years of results driven experience in developing and executing long-term security strategies. He is focused on solving security issues that address current business objectives while balancing today’s operational risks. Ben has demonstrated global leadership and experience, through executive leadership roles of advanced technology, high risk, and rapid growth initiatives at companies such as Aristocrat, Tenable, Visa and Nokia. While at Aristocrat Ben built a world class global Cybersecurity program from the ground up as part of a digital transformation. As a senior Cybersecurity executive at Visa, Ben was responsible for developing and leading Visa’s global Attack Surface Management team and capability. Prior to his role at Visa he led all security programs for Nokia corporate IT as the Global Head of IT Security. He has a strong technical background, product development experience, and operational awareness centered around a data centric and risk based approach. Ben is on the Board of Director for IT-ISAC, and has served on Advisory boards for Mimecast, Qualys, Accuvant, and Sentinel One. Ben has also served on philanthropic advisory boards for PKU support and awareness. |
Hosts
Adrian Sanabria @sawaba Senior Research Engineer at CyberRisk Alliance |
Lee Neely @lelandneely Senior Cyber Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Matt Alderman @maldermania Executive Director at CyberRisk Alliance |
2. 10 Years Later… 15 Priorities, 8 Weeks, & 7 Steps – 03:30 PM-04:00 PM
Announcements
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InfoSec World 2021 is proud to announce its keynote lineup for this year’s in-person event! Hear from Robert Herjavec plus heads of security at the NFL, TikTok, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Stanford University, and more… Plus, Security Weekly listeners save 20% on world pass and main conference registration! Visit https://securityweekly.com/isw2021 to register now!
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This Week, In the Leadership and Communications section:10 years later, software really did eat the world, CISOs’ 15 top strategic priorities for 2021, 7 steps to protect against ransomware-related lawsuits, and more!
Hosts
Adrian Sanabria @sawaba
Senior Research Engineer at CyberRisk Alliance |
Lee Neely @lelandneely
Senior Cyber Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Matt Alderman @maldermania
Executive Director at CyberRisk Alliance |
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