

Secure Talk Podcast
Justin Beals
Secure Talk reviews the latest threats, tips, and trends on security, innovation, and compliance.
Host Justin Beals interviews leading privacy, security and technology executives to discuss best practices related to IT security, data protection and compliance. Based in Seattle, he previously served as the CTO of NextStep and Koru, which won the 2018 Most Impactful Startup award from Wharton People Analytics. He is the creator of the patented Training, Tracking & Placement System and the author of “Aligning curriculum and evidencing learning effectiveness using semantic mapping of learning assets,” published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJet). Justin earned a BA from Fort Lewis College.
Host Justin Beals interviews leading privacy, security and technology executives to discuss best practices related to IT security, data protection and compliance. Based in Seattle, he previously served as the CTO of NextStep and Koru, which won the 2018 Most Impactful Startup award from Wharton People Analytics. He is the creator of the patented Training, Tracking & Placement System and the author of “Aligning curriculum and evidencing learning effectiveness using semantic mapping of learning assets,” published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJet). Justin earned a BA from Fort Lewis College.
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Jan 9, 2023 • 44min
A Vaccine Approach to IoT Device Cybersecurity
Amit Serper is the Director of Security Research at Sternum IoT and is the one who found a 'vaccine' for NotPetya. He believes it’s time to look past the ‘patchability’ approach and implement a ‘vaccine’ like solution.
In this episode Amot talks about embedded device security, the vaccine approach, and introduces some of the key aspects of Sternum IoT's autonomous security and observability platform.
Sternum IoT
https://www.sternumiot.com/
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Jan 3, 2023 • 42min
Chat-based Cybersecurity Education
Pascal Rosenberger is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eggheads.ai, a conversational microlearning and communication platform that allows businesses to unlock the simplicity and popularity of chat for trainings, internal communication and knowledge management.
Pascal talks about the importance of cyber security training, how to provide it in an engaging manner, and how best to measure the results.
Eggheads
https://eggheads.ai/
Live Interactive Example of Chat Based Instruction
(Hint: You will need to respond to the questions.)
https://eggheads.ai/chat/l9pw61xez1v
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Dec 20, 2022 • 40min
Data Security Posture Management vs. Cloud Security Posture Management and more!
Jonathan Roizin is the Co-Founder and CEO at Flow Security, a startup that is revolutionizing data security by providing a platform that helps businesses secure their cloud data wherever it flows. Jonathan explains the difference between data security posture management (DSPM) and cloud security posture management (CSPM) and the important attributes of each.
Jonathan also talks about his experience in various cybersecurity related roles spanning 16 years including investigations, incidence response, and how visibility and automation are becoming increasingly important.
https://www.flowsecurity.com/

Dec 14, 2022 • 43min
A Method for Managing Risk
Bryant Tow is the Chief Security Officer at Leapfrog, a provider of strategic IT business services. Bryant explains how having a methodology for managing cyber risk is critical and talks about the most common types of risks in the current threat landscape. He also makes some predictions about key changes in IT security space for 2023 including the rise of cyber insurance.
https://leapfrogservices.com/

Dec 6, 2022 • 51min
Why Compliance Doesn't Equate to Security
Chris Patteson, Field Risk Officer at LogicGate, explains why compliance doesn't equate to security and why this is a common misconception in corporate boardrooms. Chris talks about the difference between compliance with an industry or regional regulatory agency related to privacy and data protection doesn't mean that a company's systems are secure. He also introduces some best practices for monitoring and improving an organization's compliance and security posture.
https://www.logicgate.com/

Nov 30, 2022 • 44min
Compliance and Cybersecurity Issues with Collaboration Platforms such as Zoom, Slack, & Teams
Garth Landers, Director of Global Product for Theta Lake, talks about some of the compliance and cybersecurity related issues associated with the use of collaboration platforms such as Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp.
Garth also introduces some best practices for improving the security and compliance posture of these tools, and talks about some of the findings in the Theta Lake's recently released report that surveyed over 500 global compliance and security leaders on this topic.
https://thetalake.com/

Nov 29, 2022 • 44min
Critical Flaws in Legacy Cybersecurity Systems, with Dr. Danny Rittman
Dr. Danny Rittman, CTO at GBT Technologies, is an R&D technology expert with who has years of experience researching and developing new forms of cybersecurity. In this episode we discuss some critical flaws with traditional firewalls, intrusion & detection systems (IDS), and encryption methods, and introduce some best practices for protecting networks and IoT devices.
GBT Technologies
https://gbtti.com/

Nov 29, 2022 • 47min
SMB Ransomware Trends, with Grayson Milbourne of OpenText Security Solutions
Grayson Milbourne is the Security Intelligence Director for OpenText Security Solutions. In this episode Grayson talks about the current threat landscape for small-medium businesses (SMBs) and individuals and shares some insights from the OpenText Security Solutions 2022 Global SMB Ransomeware Survey.
Grayson also explains how he monitors the threat landscape in order to ensure the efficacy of OpenText Security Solutions' products.

Nov 17, 2022 • 51min
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Raveed Laeb, VP Product at KELA explains how he monitors and tracks trends with cyber criminals so that he can ensure that KELA's cyber threat intelligence capabilities evolve in a manner that enables it to provide maximum protection to its customers. Raveed also talks about cyber crime as a service on the dark web and vulnerability detection.
https://ke-la.com/

Oct 31, 2022 • 45min
Replacing Legacy SIEMs, Jack Naglieri CEO at Panther Labs
Jack Naglieri is the CEO and Founder of. Panther Labs. Before starting Panther, Jack was a security engineer at Yahoo and Airbnb, where he learned first-hand how inefficient legacy SIEM platforms are at high-scale detection and response. He built Airbnb’s open-source platform called StreamAlert to solve this problem before leaving to start Panther.
In this episode Jack explains the issues of legacy SIEMs, the benefits of serverless architecture, and talks about leading Panther and the evolution of Panther's platform.
https://panther.com/


