Here’s a post-show interview Mike Johnson conducted with Fredrick Lee (AKA “Flee”) (@fredrickl), CSO, Gusto for our June 4th, 2019 episode of the CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast. Flee and Mike talk about how to get developers more interested, trained, and…
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Live Event in Dallas 6/14/19: From Hiring to Buying: What Do CISOs Want?
I’m heading to Dallas in two weeks to host a salon-style discussion with a group of enthusiastic cybersecurity professionals of how we’re improving some of the most troublesome areas of InfoSec – hiring and selling/buying. This event will be hosted…
Defense in Depth: ERP Security
For most organizations, their ERP solution holds its crown jewels. Should custom and complex applications that trade such vital customer and corporate data be secured any differently? Check out this post and discussion for the basis of our conversation on…
Great Demo! Let’s Schedule a Time to Ignore Your Follow Up
We’re playing hard to get on the latest episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast. This episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and founder of Spark Media Solutions and Mike Johnson. Our guest this week is Al Ghous, head of…
Defense in Depth: Managing Obsolete (Yet Business Critical) Systems
Obsolete systems that are critical to your business. They’re abandoned, unpatchable and unmanaged. We’ve all got them, and often upgrading is not an option. What do you do? Check out this post and discussion for the basis of our conversation…
We Unleash Our Military Grade InfoSec BS Detector
We’re trying to clean up vendor pitches of unnecessary and outrageous claims so they can sail through to a CISO’s inbox. It’s our service to cybersecurity community on this week’s episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast. This show was recorded…
Defense in Depth: Cybersecurity Hiring
Everyone needs more security talent, but what kind of talent, how specialized, and what kind of pressure is hiring requirements putting on security professionals? Check out this post and discussion for the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode…
What’s Worse?! “Culture of No” or No Culture?
We want to put an end to InfoSec negativity, but not at the sacrifice of the soul of the company. We’re weighing our options on this week’s episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast. This show, like all the previous ones…
Topic Takeover: Vulnerability Management
One program we initiated in 2019 is something called “Topic Takeover” where we delve into one topic, by creating a deluge of articles, videos, podcasts and memes on just that one subject. The editorial is fully controlled by CISO Series,…
Hiring and Trusting Remote Cybersecurity Workers
Right after we recorded an episode of CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast with Sean Catlett, CISO of Reddit, we turned on the camera for a little bit of bonus footage. In this video, podcast co-host, Mike Johnson, asks Sean how he…