CISO Perspectives (public)

Rick Howard, N2K’s CSO and The Cyberwire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, interviews Andy Greenberg about his 2024 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame book: “Tracers in the Dark.”References:Andy Greenberg, 2022. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book]. Goodreads.Larry Pesce, 2024. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project.Rick Howard, 2024. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project.Ben Rothke, 2024. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project.TheScriptVEVO, 2012. The Script - Hall of Fame (Official Video) ft. will.i.am [Music Video]. YouTube.Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [Historic and Important Paper]. Bitcoin.Rick Howard, 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Goodreads.RSA Presentation: May. 9, 2024 | 9:40 AM - 10:30 AM PTRick Howard, Simone Petrella , 2024. The Moneyball Approach to Buying Down Risk, Not Superstars [Presentation]. RSA 2024 Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode of CyberWire-X, N2K’s CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, Rick Howard, is joined by guest Rohit Dhamankar, Fortra's Vice President of Product Strategy, and Hash Table member Steve Winterfeld, Akamai's Advisory CISO to discuss CISO initiatives such as vendor consolidation, automation, and attack surface management as a way to determine if it’s possible to achieve both increased security maturity and decreased operational load. This session covers common mistakes when adopting security technologies, including the pros and cons of AI, and how to better collaborate together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rick Howard, N2K’s CSO and The CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses the latest developments in mapping the MITRE ATT&CK(R) wiki to your deployed security stack with guests James Stanley, section chief at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, John Wunder, Department Manager for Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversary Emulation at MITRE, and Steve Winterfeld, Akamai’s Advisory CISO.Howard, R., Olson, R., 2020. Implementing Intrusion Kill Chain Strategies by Creating Defensive Campaign Adversary Playbooks [Journal Article]. The Cyber Defense Review. URL https://cyberdefensereview.army.mil/CDR-Content/Articles/Article-View/Article/2420129/implementing-intrusion-kill-chain-strategies-by-creating-defensive-campaign-adv/Staff, 2023. The Ultimate Guide to Sigma Rules [Blog]. THE GRAYLOG BLOG. URL https://graylog.org/post/the-ultimate-guide-to-sigma-rules/Seuss, Dr., 1990. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191139.Oh_the_Places_You_ll_Go_?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14Beriro, S., ishmael, stacy-marie, 2023. Crypto Hackers Stole Record Amount in 2022, Fueled by North Korea’s Lazarus [Podcast]. Bloomberg. URL https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/crypto-hackers-stole-record-amount-in-2022-fueled-by-north-korea-s-lazaruscisagov, 2023. Decider: A web application that assists network defenders, analysts, and researchers in the process of mapping adversary behaviors to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. [Code Repository]. GitHub. URL https://github.com/cisagov/Decider/Hutchins, E., Cloppert, M., Amin, R., 2010. Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense Informed by Analysis of Adversary Campaigns and Intrusion Kill Chains [White Paper]. Lockheed Martin. URL https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/rms/documents/cyber/LM-White-Paper-Intel-Driven-Defense.pdfJupiterDoc, 2011. Law & Order Full Theme (High Quality) [Theme]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4-aEGvqQMNickels, K, 2019. Introduction to ATT&CK Navigator [Video]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcclNdwG8VsPage, C., 2022. US officials link North Korean Lazarus hackers to $625M Axie Infinity crypto theft [website]. TechCrunch. URL https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/15/us-officials-link-north-korean-lazarus-hackers-to-625m-axie-infinity-crypto-theft/Page, C., 2022. North Korean Lazarus hackers linked to $100M Harmony bridge theft [Website]. TechCrunch. URL https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/north-korea-lazarus-harmony-theft/Staff, n.d. Lazarus Group (G0032) [Wiki]. Mitre ATT&CK Navigator. URL https://mitre-attack.github.io/attack-navigator//#layerURL=https%3A%2F%2Fattack.mitre.org%2Fgroups%2FG0032%2FG0032-enterprise-layer.jsonStaff, n.d. Lazarus Group, Labyrinth Chollima, HIDDEN COBRA, Guardians of Peace, ZINC, NICKEL ACADEMY, Group G0032 [Wiki]. MITRE ATT&CK®. URL https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0032/Staff, n.d. Lazarus Group [Wiki]. Tidal Cyber. URL https://app.tidalcyber.com/groups/0bc66e95-de93-4de7-b415-4041b7191f08-Lazarus%20GroupStaff, January 2023. Best Practices for MITRE ATT&CK® Mapping [White Paper]. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). URL https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/best-practices-mitre-attckr-mappingStaff, March 2023. CISA Releases Decider Tool to Help with MITRE ATT&CK Mapping [Announcement]. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). URL https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/03/01/cisa-releases-decider-tool-help-mitre-attck-mappingStaff, n.d. List of top Cryptocurrency Companies - Crunchbase Hub Profile [Website]. Crunchbase. URL https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/cryptocurrency-companiesStrom, B.E., Applebaum, A., Miller, D.P., Nickels, K.C., Pennington, A.G., Thomas, C.B., 2020. ATTACK Design and Philosophy March 2020 Revision [White Paper]. Mitre. URL https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/pr-18-0944-11-mitre-attack-design-and-philosophy.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of cybersecurity risk forecasting with guests Fred Kneip, CyberGRX’s founder and President of ProcessUnity, and Kevin Richards, Cyber Risk Solutions President.Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.  Howard, R., 2023. Bonus Episode: 2023 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame inductee: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Dr Phil Tetlock and Dr Dan Gardner. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/5567/notesHoward, R., 2022. Risk Forecasting with Bayes Rule: A practical example. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/88/notesHoward, R, 2023. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction [Book review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL icdt.osu.edu/superforecasting-art-and-science-prediction.Howard, R., 2022. Two risk forecasting data scientists, and Rick, walk into a bar. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/89/notesHoward, R., Freund, J., Jones, J., 2016. 2016 Cyber Canon Inductee - Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR approach [Interview]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpAnSBaGMHubbard , D.W., Seiersen, R., 2016. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26518108-how-to-measure-anything-in-cybersecurity-riskClark, B., Seiersen , R., Hubbard, D., 2017. “How To Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk” - Cybersecurity Canon 2017 [Interview]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o_mAavdabg&t=93sFreund, J., Jones, J., 2014. Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22637927-measuring-and-managing-information-riskKatz, D., 2021. Corporate Governance Update: “Materiality” in America and Abroad [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. URL https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/05/01/corporate-governance-update-materiality-in-america-and-abroad/Posner, C., 2023. SEC Adopts Final Rules on Cybersecurity Disclosure [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. URL https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/08/09/sec-adopts-final-rules-on-cybersecurity-disclosure/Linden, L.V., Kneip, F., Squier, Suzie , 2022. Threats Across the Globe & Benchmarking with CyberGRX [Podcast]. Retail & Hospitality ISAC Podcast. URL https://pca.st/a49enjb1Lizárraga, C.J., 2023. Improving the Quality of Cybersecurity Risk Management Disclosures [Essay]. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. URL https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/lizarraga-statement-cybersecurity-072623Staff, 2022. Benchmarking Cyber-Risk Quantification [Survey]. Gartner. URL https://www.gartner.com/en/publications/benchmarking-cyber-risk-quantificationTetlock, P.E., Gardner, D., 2015. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecastingWinterfeld, S., 2014. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk [Book review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL https://icdt.osu.edu/how-measure-anything-cybersecurity-risk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Howard, The CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) prevention with CyberWire Hash Table guests Steve Winterfeld, Akamai’s Field CSO, and Jim Gilbert, Akamai’s Director Product Management, and Rick Doten, the CISO for Healthcare Enterprises and Centene.Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.  Azure Network Security Team, 2023. 2022 in review: DDoS attack trends and insights [Website]. Microsoft Security Blog. URL https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/02/21/2022-in-review-ddos-attack-trends-and-insights/Howard, R., 2014. Fatal System Error [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL https://icdt.osu.edu/fatal-system-errorMashable, 2019. The World’s First Cyber Crime: The Morris Worm [KERNEL PANIC] [Video]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2dj2gnxjtU (accessed 8.8.23).Montgomery, D., Sriram, K., Santay, D.J., 2022. Advanced DDoS Mitigation Techniques [Website]. NIST. URL https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/advanced-ddos-mitigation-techniques.Schomp, K., Bhardwaj, O., Kurdoglu, E., Muhaimen, M., Sitaraman, R.K., 2020. Akamai DNS: Providing Authoritative Answers to theWorld’s Queries [Conference Paper]. Proceedings of the Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication. URL https://groups.cs.umass.edu/ramesh/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/sigcomm2020-final289.pdfSparling, C., Gebhardt, M., 2022. The Relentless Evolution of DDoS Attacks [Blog]. Akamai Technologies. URL https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/relentless-evolution-of-ddos-attacks.Staff, January 2023. The Evolution of DDoS: Return of the Hacktivist [Akamai White Paper]. FS-ISAC. URL https://www.fsisac.com/akamai-ddos-report.Staff , 2023. 2023 The Edge Ecosystem [White Paper]. AT&T Cybersecurity. URL https://cybersecurity.att.com/resource-center/infographics/2023-securing-the-edge.Winterfeld, S., 2023. Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days [Website]. Akamai Technologies. URL https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/ransomware-on-the-move-evolving-exploitation-techniquesRadware, 2012. DNS Amplification Attack [Video. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKjHWkDwP0 Chickowski, E., 2020. Types of DDoS attacks explained [Website]. AT&T Cybersecurity. URL https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/types-of-ddos-attacks-explainedNilsson, J., 2010. The Book of Numbers: A History of the Telephone Book [Website]. The Saturday Evening Post. URL https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/02/book-numbers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the meaning of quantum computing through a cybersecurity perspective with CyberWire Hash Table guests Dr. Georgiana Shea, Chief Technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Jonathan France, the Chief Information Security Officer at ISC2. Research contributors include Bob Turner, Fortinet’s Field CISO – Education, Don Welch, New York University CIO, Rick Doten, CISO at Healthcare Enterprises and Centene, and Zan Vautrinot, Major General - retired.Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.  Deen, S., 2008. 007 | Quantum of Solace | Theme Song [Video]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMXT3aJxH_A Dungey, T., Abdelgaber, Y., Casto, C., Mills, J., Fazea, Y., 2022. Quantum Computing: Current Progress and Future Directions [Website]. EDUCAUSE . URL https://er.educause.edu/articles/2022/7/quantum-computing-current-progress-and-future-directions.France, J., 2023. Quantum Compute and CyberSecurity, in: ISC2 Secure Summits. France, J., 2023. The Race Against Quantum: It’s Not Too Late to be the Tortoise that Beat the Hare [Essay]. Infosecurity Magazine. URL https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/race-quantum-tortoise-beat-hare/. Shea, Dr.G., Fixler, A., 2022. Protecting and Securing Data from the Quantum Threat [Technical Note]. Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. URL https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fdd-ccti-protecting-and-securing-data-from-the-quantum-threat.pdf   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Howard, The CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses cybersecurity first principle strategies with CJ Moses, CISO of AWS.Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.  Staff, 2022. AWS Security Profile: CJ Moses, CISO of AWS [Bio]. Amazon Web Services. URL https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws_security_profile_cj_moses_ciso_of_aws/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, formerly the CyberWire, discusses how to use the cybersecurity first principle strategy of zero trust with commercial applications and in-house software development. Chris Niggel, Okta Field CSO, joins him for the discussion.Howard, R., Bittner, D., 2023. What is data centric security and why should anyone care? [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cyberwire-x/46/notes.Howard, R., 2020. Your security stack is moving: SASE is coming. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/1/notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Howard, The CyberWire’s Chief Analyst, CSO, and Senior Fellow, and the cast of the entire CyberWire team, honor our U.S. veterans on this Memorial day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices