45 billion cyberattacks a day?! Media myths and working in cybersecurity | Guest Ken Westin

Ken Westin of Panther Labs has a bit of fact-checking he wants to do on some of the tech stories we read daily in the papers. Does J.P. Morgan really get 45 billion cyberattacks per day? Really? Are there other factors in this number that aren’t emphasized in the interest of chasing panic clicks?

Westin and I talk about responsible ways to cover big security stories in the news, ways that each of us can become cyber fact-checkers and advocates, and Westin tells me about how his personal interests have turned into creating some very cool anti-theft tools. You can hear me audibly blown away by one in particular!

0:00 - Mega cyberattacks
2:00 - How Ken Westin got into cybersecurity
10:44 - J.P. Morgan cyberattacks
16:00 - Media and PR as a form of social engineering
17:48 - Reframing the cyberattack narrative
19:50 - CISO burnout and responsibility
23:04 - Advice to CISO workers to fight new threats
28:35 - Changing the cybersecurity narrative
33:43 - Advice to cybersecurity professionals
37:30 - Outro

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