Ep. 170 - Security Awareness Series - Rapport is the key to security with Adam Glick

This month, Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Adam Glick. Adam is currently the Chief Information Security Officer for SimpliSafe in Boston, MA. In this position and his previous jobs, Adam has had the responsibility of managing all matters pertaining to information security, risk, policy, and procedures. Adam is currently an adjunct professor at Boston College in the cybersecurity policy & governance program, and an adjunct professor of IT in the MBA program at the School of Business at Providence College. Outside of the office, he is a car and technology enthusiast along with an avid reader, hiker, cyclist, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner.  

[May 16, 2022] 

00:00 – Intro 

00:56 – Intro Links 

• Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/ 
• Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/ 

• Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/ 
• Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/ 
• Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb 
• CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/ 
• innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/ 

02:52 – Adam Glick Intro 

04:05 – How did you get started in Information Security? 

05:10 – Applying a background in teaching to InfoSec 

06:37 – Developing security programs for different environments 

08:14 – Getting people to think about security 

09:32 – Microtraining: Updating the way that we train for security 

12:10 – The importance of security in our Professional and Personal lives 

14:28 – Customizing security training for large companies 

15:29 – Approaching security from a Top-Down perspective 

17:20 – Getting top management to support security training 

20:55 – Action steps for companies to focus on 

• Cyber Hygiene 
• Risk Based Methodology 

23:22 – How can companies assess their own risk? 

26:55 – Internal interviews to build security protocols 

28:47 – Jiu Jitsu Security??? 

29:58 – How to contact Adam online 

• LinkedIn: in/glickadam/ 

31:19 – Who are your greatest mentors? 

• Donald Schattle 

• David Sherry 
• Walt Czerminski 

33:17 – Book Recommendations 

• Good to Great – James C Collins 
• The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings series – J.R.R. Tolkien 

• The Witcher Saga – Andrzej Sapkowski 

36:33 – Wrap Up  

37:32 – Outro 

• www.social-engineer.com 
• www.innocentlivesfoundation.org