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The Cybersquawk Podcast features the frontline start-ups and next-gen technologies vital to combat the emerging threats of the cybersecurity era. Due to the current rate of cyber-attacks and the projected future growth cost, we explore the innovations necessary to protect us from destructive and expensive ransomware attacks, as both individuals and organisations.
This podcast seeks to democratise people's knowledge and understanding when it comes cybersecurity. We speak to experts and leading technology companies on a generalist level to help CEO's, Directors, Small Business owners and generalists who are seeking to understand this space more. Throughout the podcast we will discover some new technologies and hear a few cool cyber warfare stories along the way.
Collaboration and data sharing is vital to business in the virtual era. But how secure is your data when sharing with team members or suppliers? Who can access it? What can they do with it?
Daniel Lai, CEO and founder of ArchTIS believes data security is vital and has built systems that set up very specific terms and conditions to ensure the right people are accessing your data and are only able to do specific things with it.
Today he shares the importance of cyber security for risk management, and his 15-year overnight success story from winemaking to modern-day Cybersphere James Bond.
In this episode Daniel reveals:
- What exactly ArchTIS do
- The importance of securing data
- His opinion on how security networks are failing
- How ArchTIS started and how its contract with the ADF kicked off
- The way ArchTIS tech could be improving the supply chain for CEO’s and big business owners
- What the difference between ArchTIS and other similar products
- The most interesting thing he's experienced working with the ADF
- What he would be doing as his most immediate defence position as a CEO
- How ArchTIS has collaborated with Microsoft
- If interest from companies has increased since working from home spiked
- What he thinks is the biggest risk on a 5 year view of the industry
- His answers to our Fast Five questions
Key Quotes
“If you're not addressing it and it isn’t on the board then it isn’t being raised at that level then I think you're crazy.”
“It is no longer will this happen? It's when will this happen?”
“If you aren’t having these discussions at the board level, you are not managing risk.”
“We were in such a rush to enable people to work from home that we didn’t think through the consequences of the security problem.”
“Where should you be spending your money? Less on your network, the network is dead. We really need to be concentrating on securing data.”
Find out more about ArchTIS
You can find out about everything ArchTIS via their website: https://www.archtis.com/
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersquawk/
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About Cybersquawk
After working on Cybersecurity opportunities for a few years and despite having experts in the team, the Cybersquawk founders saw how technical heavy information in this space was. As this is a problem and responsibility that affects everyone, Cybersquawk has been created to democratise the Cyber conversation. Created by generalists for generalists.
Series 1 covers high level issues and considerations, threats and recent hacks and some technologies attempting to solve the problems for large and small operators.
About Maysaffron www.maysaffron.com
Maysaffron, established 2015, is an investment professional led firm that connects companies and funds with the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2021 the firm commenced direct investments in future themes. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for the firm and its partners. Maysaffron: Overview | LinkedIn
Host
Ellecia Saffron | LinkedIn
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Have you ever wanted to see your online presence through the eyes of a cyber-criminal? Rather than using traditional methods, the world’s first cyber exchange platform provides a “hacker view” of your risk profile to assess your threats and cyber maturity.
In this episode we hear from Terry Roberts, Founder, President and CEO of Whitehawk, on how she went from the US Navy to founding Whitehawk in her kitchen a few years ago.
In this episode Terry shares:
- How her journey from the US navy led her to cyber security
- What changes she has seen in cyber security since the 90’s
- How she got Whitehawk off her kitchen bench and into a global exchange program
- What exactly Whitehawk do in the cyber space and how they can help your business
- How they have successfully helped businesses gain cyber insurance
- The process small businesses go through when signing up with Whitehawk
- Her policy recommendations for company CEO’s
- What type of focus she thinks infrastructure and local government should have on regulatory practices
- The 3 risks that every business in the world faces
Key Quotes
“We all saw what had been hitting primarily financial institutions…moved to everybody.”
“Our windows are still open. We still haven’t put the right risk processes in place.”
“If you’re just doing traditional cyber security, looking within your network, you're not getting the hacker view of your risk.”
“This is continuous, cyber risk doesn’t start and end.”
“You can mitigate the impact, but everybody can be hit (by a cyber attack).”
“Any hardware that is over 10 years old and any software that has not been updated over the past 5 years is completely open.”
“We’re throwing our economic growth down the drain to cyber criminals.”
“How does the board know what their company is telling them about their current cyber posture is right. outside or posture is right? Only by getting an outside group to (objectively review it)risk rating assessment do you have something to bounce off what your inside team is telling you.”
Find out more about Whitehawk
You can find out about everything Whitehawk via their website: https://www.whitehawk.com/
Follow the podcast online to continue the cyber security discussion:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersquawk/
Follow Cybersquawk on linkedin for all podcast updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybersquawk
About Cybersquawk
After working on Cybersecurity opportunities for a few years and despite having experts in the team, the Cybersquawk founders saw how technical heavy information in this space was. As this is a problem and responsibility that affects everyone, Cybersquawk has been created to democratise the Cyber conversation. Created by generalists for generalists.
Series 1 covers high level issues and considerations, threats and recent hacks and some technologies attempting to solve the problems for large and small operators.
About Maysaffron www.maysaffron.com
Maysaffron, established 2015, is an investment professional led firm that connects companies and funds with the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2021 the firm commenced direct investments in future themes. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for the firm and its partners. Maysaffron: Overview | LinkedIn
Host
Ellecia Saffron | LinkedIn
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It’s becoming clear businesses need to be cyber secure, but how can small businesses possibly afford that?
What if there was a business that had a specific platform and framework designed specifically to help small businesses be safe on the digital space.
In this episode we hear from Susie Jones, co-founder of Cynch Security, about her interesting pivot from insurance broker to cybercrime preventer, and how Cynch Security works with small businesses to improve their cyber security through easy-to-follow steps and tips.
In this episode Susie shares:
- The difficulties small business faces in cybersecurity
- How much help small businesses need for cyber security
- The cyber security problems Cynch Security specifically solves
- Why you need to improve and maintain your cyber security
- The first steps that Cynch take to help small businesses
- Emerging trends in cyber security to watch
- How a cyber security attack on invoices halted fuel distribution in the U.S.
- The value of cyber insurance
- Her opinion on ASIC’s ruling against RI advice for poor cyber advice and governance
Key Quotes
“We have no desire to build a technical solution where appropriate solutions already exist out there in the business.”
“Supply chain assurance is really becoming a big topic at the top end of town…and that’s what we’re spending a lot of our time trying to solve.”
‘Just like with building insurance, if you don’t have locks on your doors then you won’t get building insurance. It’s much the same with cyber insurance.”
“If you are collecting information or data or providing advice to clients then you do have an obligation under the law to be taking steps to proactively protect that data and information.”
“The absolute worst time to be building a plan is when you are actually having to respond to an incident.”
“Everyone understands that cyber criminals are out there actively attacking businesses. But if your response is poor…then absolutely that’s going to be damaging and it’s really going to bring your reputation down.”
“We’re not at the point where businesses are going to proactively invest as much as they need to in their security and that is going to cost them.”
Find out more about Cynch Security
You can find out about everything Cynch Security via their website: https://cynch.com.au/
Follow the podcast online to continue the cyber security discussion:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersquawk/
Follow Cybersquawk on linkedin for all podcast updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybersquawk
About Cybersquawk
After working on Cybersecurity opportunities for a few years and despite having experts in the team, the Cybersquawk founders saw how technical heavy information in this space was. As this is a problem and responsibility that affects everyone, Cybersquawk has been created to democratise the Cyber conversation. Created by generalists for generalists.
Series 1 covers high level issues and considerations, threats and recent hacks and some technologies attempting to solve the problems for large and small operators.
About Maysaffron www.maysaffron.com
Maysaffron, established 2015, is an investment professional led firm that connects companies and funds with the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2021 the firm commenced direct investments in future themes. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for the firm and its partners. Maysaffron: Overview | LinkedIn
Host
Ellecia Saffron | LinkedIn
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In late September Optus admitted to being the victim of an enormous cyber-attack that had resulted in the disclosure of private information for a huge number of Australians.
Since the attack people have been asking how something of this magnitude could have happened and how Optus could have allowed itself to be open to such a big offensive.
In today’s episode we’ll be asking what exactly happened with the Optus cyber-attack and more importantly, could it happen again?
To answer those questions, we will be chatting with CK Chim, the field CSO of the Asia-Pacific region for Cybereason and Eric Nagel, GM of the Asia-Pacific region for Cybereason
In this episode Chim and Eric share:
- Their backgrounds in cyber security and offensive
- The meaning of EDR and XDR and what they do
- What Cybereason uncovered about offensive hacking in Asia targeting telecommunication companies
- The scary response governments and companies have when they are told about security issues
- What happened in the Optus attack from a security perspective
- Their thoughts on how other companies can act to ensure it doesn’t happen
- The frightening reason why we could see a second Optus attack
- Their prediction about the number of ransomware attacks in the future
Key Quotes
“Lightning almost always strikes twice. There’s no guarantee there is not another group inside the telco today.”
“The number of attacks quadrupled through the pandemic.”
“Not all companies or government will proactively respond or ask for help, unless they were proven to be compromised.”
Find out more about Cybereason
You can find out about everything Cybereason via their website: https://www.cybereason.com/
You can also look at their report uncovering Asia telco hacks from 2021 that we discussed in the episode here: https://www.cybereason.com/blog/research/deadringer-exposing-chinese-threat-actors-targeting-major-telcos
**Maysaffron have worked and lead an investment previously into Cybereason
Follow Cybersquawk the podcast online to continue the cyber security discussion:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersquawk/about/
About Cybersquawk
After working on Cybersecurity opportunities for a couple of years and despite having experts in the team, the Cybersquawk founders saw how technical heavy information in this space was. As this is a problem and responsibility that affects everyone Cybersquawk has been created to democratise the Cyber conversation. Created by generalists for generalists.
Series 1 covers high level issues and considerations, threats and recent hacks and some technologies attempting to solve the problems for large and small operators.
About Maysaffron www.maysaffron.com
Maysaffron, established 2015, is an investment professional led firm that connects companies and funds with the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2021 the firm commenced direct investments in future themes. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for the firm and its partners.
Maysaffron: Overview | LinkedIn
Host
Ellecia Saffron | LinkedIn
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Have you ever posted an open position on your website or linkedin? Have you or your employees ever received resumes in a pdf format via email or message services?
By pretending to be an applicant for your job advertisement or application, hackers send you a pdf that can contain malware and hack your system via a malicious document or pdf.
In today’s episode of Cybersquawk we’ll be talking to Aviv Grafi, a former Israeli offensive and the co-founder of Votiro, an award-winning cybersecurity company.
Votiro technology removes human error risk and uses a secure file gateway technology to clean all files incoming and replicate them safely so that people and companies can open everything stress and threat free without interruption to everyday business.
Aviv Grafi, believes why no one is safe from weaponised files and through Votiro he protects organisations and individuals from falling into a phishing attack. With an Israeli Intelligence background and years of experience as a ‘white hat hacker’, Aviv and Votiro aim to ensure every business is security enabled without interruption to everyday processes.
In this episode Aviv shares:
- His background in offensive, disrupting the cybersphere
- How anyone can be hacked via a weaponised document
- The very common weaponised document that most companies would not be prepared for
- Real life examples of a company getting attacked by an attack email document
- Their technology and how it solves human selection error from phishing attacks
- If he is seeing an increase in weaponised documents
Key Quotes
“One thing I was doing after sitting with clients was showing them how I could hack them.”
“There is a constant tension between security and productivity.”
“We believe that every security needs to be a business enabler and not a restrictive security.”
“Security by itself is it’s too restrictive, no one would use it.”
“Let’s not try to find the bad stuff because that’s doomed to fail…let’s just deliver safe content.”
Find out more about Votiro
You can find out about everything Votiro via their website: https://votiro.com/
Follow the podcast online to continue the cyber security discussion:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersquawk/
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Follow Cybersquawk on linkedin for all podcast updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybersquawk
About Cybersquawk
After working on Cybersecurity opportunities for a couple of years and despite having experts in the team, the Cybersquawk founders saw how technical heavy information in this space was. As this is a problem and responsibility that affects everyone Cybersquawk has been created to democratise the Cyber conversation. Created by generalists for generalists.
Series 1 covers high level issues and considerations, threats and recent hacks and some technologies attempting to solve the problems for large and small operators.
About Maysaffron www.maysaffron.com
Maysaffron, established 2015, is an investment professional led firm that connects companies and funds with the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2021 the firm commenced direct investments in future themes. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for the firm and its partners.
Maysaffron: Overview | LinkedIn
Host
Ellecia Saffron | LinkedIn
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For our first episode, we will be talking to former Minister for Defence and Former Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, The Honourable Christopher Pyne.
Since his time in politics he has continued to support companies in the defence space and co-chair the Australian UAE Business council.
During his time in government he implemented the start of the cyber security strategy in Australia and we’ll be talking to him in this episode about how the focus on cyber security developed during his time and his opinion on how Australia has been managing itself in the space since.
Throughout the episode Christopher shares:
- The history of cyber security in Australia starting with Malcolm Turnbull
- Why he believes Australians have been so complacent on cyber security
- How Australia’s naivete has affected our cyber security
- How Russia has been attacking Ukraine and Belarus
- How the Hon Christopher Pyne was hacked
- The reasons other countries would want to steal Australia’s secrets and Intellectual property
- What a future cyber attack could look like in Australia
- Why cybersecurity in Australia will affect whether Australian companies get work in other countries
- What everyone should be doing to take responsibility for cyber security
Key Quotes
“I would describe it as a charming naivete about Australian business about the danger in cyber security.”
“There’s almost a sense that, why would anyone do that (cyber attacks) do us?”
“Only now do people realise that they can’t have guest1 as the password in their internal email systems.”
“The weakest link is as strong as the chain. American companies, who deal with Australian companies put a very high salience on cybersecurity. So if Australian companies are not prepared to invest in their cyber security they won’t get any work. It’s as simple as that.”
“(Cybersecurity investment) Is like turning the lights on in a business - its not a nice to have. Its a need to have… If you don’t spend the money, you are not going to have a business”
Find out more about Christopher Pyne
You can find out about everything Chris is doing via his website: https://www.pyneonline.com.au/
You can also follow his social media.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pynechristopher/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.pyne
Companies mentioned in this episode:
Australia UAE Business Council
Cocoon Data
Geo Fencing disruptive tech
Follow the podcast online to continue the cyber security discussion:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersquawk/about/
Follow Cybersquawk on linkedin for all podcast updates: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersquawk
About Cybersquawk
After working on Cybersecurity opportunities for a couple of years and despite having experts in the team, the Cybersquawk founders saw how technical heavy information in this space was. As this is a problem and responsibility that affects everyone Cybersquawk has been created to democratise the Cyber conversation. Series 1 covers high level issues and considerations, threats and recent hacks and some technologies attempting to solve the problems for large and small operators. Created by generalists for generalists.
About Maysaffron www.maysaffron.com
Maysaffron, established 2015, is an investment professional led firm that connects companies and funds with the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2021 the firm commenced direct investments in future themes. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for the firm and its partners.
Maysaffron: Overview | LinkedIn
Host
Ellecia Saffron | LinkedIn
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Cybersquawk Podcast features the frontline start-ups and next-gen technologies vital to combat the emerging threats of the cybersecurity era. Due to the current rate of cyber-attacks and the projected future growth cost, we explore the innovations necessary to protect us from destructive and expensive ransomware attacks, as both individuals and organisations.
First episodes drop Monday, October 10th.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.