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Welcome to the Cyber Eagles Podcast, the only place where you will hear a people-centric narrative about building safer cyber security cultures. Oscar is a vastly experienced cybersecurity leader with a track record of helping organisations manage cyber risk. Nadja is a former Senior Executive at NATO, the world’s largest security and crisis management organisation, who dealt with cyber risk as if lives depended on it. Tune in weekly for the eagle's eye view on cyber.
CISO fundamental principles are knowledge based. Core technical and governance knowledge is easily attainable.
What we don't do well in the cybersecurity industry is strong leadership.
That's the empathy. That's the relatability. That's the communication.
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Helen Rabe, CISO of BBC, about the challenges of wearing many hats as a CISO and how to effectively lead organizations in the role in order to manage risk efficiently.
Connect with Helen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenrabe/
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People are good at names. Machines are good at numbers.
And the domain name system is that interface where the much more technical layers of the internet start to meet humans.
The reason why we set up a new DNS Research Federation, which is a not for profit we've established last year, is to actually stimulate research and access to data and engagement in standards relating to unique identifier systems because not enough people understand them.
There isn't enough research going on. And if you don't understand it, you can end up making policy that goes very wrong.
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Emily Taylor, Founder of DNS Research Federation, about what DNS is, who controls it, the impact of not understanding it well enough, governance and standard, and diversity and inclusion in the industry.
To learn more about the DNS Research Federation visit: https://dnsrf.org/
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What if 1% of 96% of the economy, which are the SMEs [small to medium enterprises] in the world, were educated about the benefits of blockchain?
Even in just making financial transactions and securing data and securing identity and keys, we would add overnight to 1.43 trillion dollars to the global economy.
That's how powerful this is.
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Lisa Short, Professor Adjunct at La Trobe University, about common blockchain misconceptions and ways cybersecurity professionals can battle misinformation and help advance the technology to support the industry and the economy.
Connect with Lisa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagshort/
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Every child matters. The safety of every single child matters, particularly in the digital playground.
There are several challenges that children are dealing with today, between body image and suicide issues, pedophile activities, and cyber bullying.
As responsible citizens and parents and how do we enable businesses to respect a child's right to participate online? How do we enable them to consider the child's rights when they're designing and delivering and operating their services?
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Dr. Rachel O’Connell, Founder and CEO of TrustElevate, Child Age Verification & Parental Consent Provider, about her experience facilitating safe digital parenting opportunities, the issues we’re facing protecting children in the digital space, and what you can do to make the digital playground a safe place for children to thrive.
Connect with Rachel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/racheloconnell/
Visit TrustElevate: https://www.trustelevate.com/
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The overall power of data science is actually, how does it make us proactive, not reactive?
And in security, if we can get one step ahead, then that's a huge win.
Data scientists can learn from cybersecurity experts in terms of how they can design and create fantastic things in a safe and secure way, but there's also really useful data techniques that can be used to support cybersecurity, if we can have an open enough mind.
We so often see the risks but actually if we do things with the right checks and balances, which cybersecurity experts know how to think about, then we can actually really create something very powerful together.
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Natalie Cramp, CEO of Profusion, about data science, artificial intelligence, cyber resilience and the connections between them.
Connect with Natalie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliescramp/
Visit Profusion: https://profusion.com/
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Cybersecurity is much more than having tools to identify, detect, and thwart attacks. Though they do play an incredibly important role, there is a strong human aspect to cybersecurity. There's an organizational aspect to cybersecurity. There's a leadership aspect to cybersecurity. There's a governance aspect to cybersecurity.
What are we, as an industry, doing to become ready and prepared for what we are facing and going to face as an industry?
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Dave Chatterjee, Tenured Professor, Management Information Systems, Terry College of Business and Author of “Cybersecurity Readiness -- A Holistic and High-Performance Approach”, about the difference between cybersecurity preparedness and readiness, success factors for security readiness, and steps to implement it in your organization.
Connect with Dave: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/
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Even with verification processes for online dating services, never believe that anything is 100% safe, that anyone is 100% verified.
The person you are talking to might have no criminal record. It definitely checked out through the ID check. That doesn't mean something bad can't happen.
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Dr. Hannah Shimko, Communications and Policy Director at the Online Dating Association, about what you can do to ensure your safety in the online dating realm.
Connect with Hannah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hshimko/
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It’s critical to remember that we are operating as humans in an increasingly machine-driven world. We have really crucial differences and we can't be expected to operate like machines. Most of the time our relationship with tech is a distraction from a deeper issue.
In this episode, Oscar O’Connor and Nadja El Fertasi have an in-depth discussion with Hannah Tufts, Digital Wellbeing Coach and Owner of Exhale Global, about what digital leaders can do to change habits and behaviors in an increasingly machine-driven world to increase personal and organizational cyber resilience.
Connect with Hannah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahtufts/
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Today we're joined by Dr. Jane Frankland is an award-winning leader, best-selling author, speaker and women's change agent. She has spent over 24 years in cybersecurity, becoming one of the most celebrated female cybersecurity influencers in the world.
UNESCO has called her a trailblazing woman in tech. Jane has built her own global hacking firm in the 90s, she worked as an executive for some of the world's well, most well-known consultancies. Today, she's on a mission to make women in cyber the standard, not an exception. She does this through her writing keynotes consulting scholarships, and a brand new we're in the platform, the source, which is very exciting stuff.
The theme for this whole series is humanising cyber resilience. And part of that is about breaking down the barriers and the gender discrimination. Let's call a spade a spade that prevents so many women with great potential, both joining the industry and rising through the ranks. This is where Jane has been focusing for quite some time.
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In season two of the cyber Eagles podcast. We’re focusing on humanising cyber resilience. And we’ll be joined by experts from around the world to discuss different aspects of this very broad subject. From breaking gender stereotypes to misinformation, even making cybersecurity fun.
Our guests come from a wide variety of cultural and professional backgrounds, and we aim to bring as diverse a set of opinions as we can to this new season. We hope you enjoy it. And please get involved in the discussion through our website and social media channels.
Welcome everybody to the Cyber Eagles LinkedIn live. It's 1215. UK time on Thursday, the seventh of April, we are delighted to welcome Sarah Armstrong Smith as the first guest on season two. And today, we're going to be chatting around the topic of misinformation and disinformation and fake news, which has been, I suppose, increasingly prevalent. I guess, looking back, it sort of started with the 2016 presidential campaign in the US where it became part of the common parlance that there 's was this thing that we called fake news, which seemed to be an opinion, I don't like from the commentator. But we've also seen significant campaigns coming out of other countries, particularly in the run up to the invasion of Ukraine, and so on. So, Sarah, as the Chief Scientist, chief security adviser to Microsoft, in this part of the world, clearly has an inside track, which, we thought, would be very interesting to our listeners. And so Sarah, if you'd like to kind of throw the starter for 10 in there with how do we tell the difference between something, or how do we, how do we identify as an ordinary, an ordinary Joe or Josephine on the street, looking at stuff coming through the web or news channels? How on earth do we work out whether we're listening to effectively the truth or propaganda?
Welcome to Season Two of the Cyber Eagles Podcast. In this season, we're focusing on humanizing cyber resilience. And we'll be joined by experts from around the world to discuss different aspects of this very broad subject. From breaking gender stereotypes to misinformation, even making cybersecurity fun. Our guests come from a wide variety of cultural and professional backgrounds, and we aim to bring as diverse a set of opinions as we can to this new season. We hope you enjoy it. And please get involved in the discussion through our website and social media channels. Nadja El Fertasi spent two decades working in cybersecurity at NATO, and runs a consultancy and training business called Thrive With EQ.
As the name suggests, she specializes in helping individuals and organizations build resilience by understanding how important emotional intelligence is in managing security risks for humans, both at home and in the workplace. Oscar O'Connor has spent nearly 40 years as a management consultant, specializing in cybersecurity and business transformation, since the late 1990s. He specializes in strategic cybersecurity planning and execution and has worked with blue chip organizations in the private public and third sectors internationally. As well as running his consultancy business. Oscar is also an active mentor, coach, non-executive director and writer. There we go. So welcome to this LinkedIn live from the cyber eagles.
We're here today to talk about our perspectives on the current cyber landscapes. Some of you, hopefully, all of you have watched and listened to our podcast. And we've spoken about all different topics, across cyber from kind of technical things down to emotional responses to things and emotional resilience and how we can all kind of navigate this changing world of cyber around us now. Today, I'm joined with the other cyber Eagles, Oscar & Nadja. We're going to discuss what's going on at the moment. And then what's coming down the line as we've just finished our season one of the podcasts, and we're moving into season two. So, this is a good chance to round up what we've been talking about and how that plays into what's happening next.
Wrapping up season one, Nadja and Oscar walk through teh various topics discussed during the season and attempt to draw some rational conclusions!
Welcome to the sixth episode of The Cyber Eagles Podcast, the only place where you will hear a people-centric narrative about building safer cyber security cultures. In this episode, we're going to be talking about why laser-focused eyesight really matters when planning for and dealing with, security incidents, cyber-attacks, ransomware.
Oscar is a vastly experienced cybersecurity leader with a track record of helping organizations manage cyber risk. Nadja is a former Senior Executive at NATO, the world’s largest security and crisis management organization, who dealt with cyber risk as if lives depended on it. Tune in weekly for the eagle's eye view on cyber.
No plan of battle ever survived contact with the enemy. And yet no military leader ever went into battle without a plan unless they were insane. We must plan to achieve our long-term goals and develop strategies to achieve these. In this episode, Nadja and Oscar discuss the need for short term tactics to be adaptable to change since the cybersecurity landscape shifts continuously. We also discuss how failing to plan for such change, is no more than planning to fail.
For decades, the IT sector has relied on spreading fear uncertainty and doubt to sell security solutions. In this episode, Oscar and Nadja discuss how important it has become to take fear out of the equation and provide organisations and consumers with enough appropriate information to allow them to make informed decisions about what to protect and how.
Everyone sees the world differently, our upbringing, culture, education, and a host of other factors make everyone's perspective completely unique. This is one of the reasons that so many communications campaigns fail, because one message will never have the hoped for impact on everyone in the audience. In this episode, Nadja and Oscar discuss how we need to adapt our communications strategies and techniques for different audiences and allow for these individual differences when building cybersecurity cultures
The festive season is not only a time for families and friends, for sharing goodwill and hope for the future. Sadly it is also a time when the cybercriminal world redoubles its efforts to part ordinary people from their money and online identities. IN this special episode, Nadja and Oscar talk about the things we all need to be wary of at this time of year.
Oscar and Nadja discuss some of the less visible aspects of cybersecurity and how to navigate the issues that these present
Cybersecurity is an ever-changing domain and the worst thing we can do is think we have it cracked. In this episode, Nadja and Oscar discuss now being uncomfortable about cybersecurity is the right mindset and how we can adapt our personal coping strategies to this state of mind
The eagle has a unique talent of being able to scan a broad landscape whilst simultaneously focusing on a very specific target. IN this episode, Nadja and Oscar discuss how we can train our minds to do something similar when considering cybersecurity issues.
Thinking about cybersecurity for the first time? Where do you start? Nadja and Oscar discuss the value of careful planning, understanding where you might be at risk, what you are protecting and from whom.
Our first podcast, introducing ourselves and the reasons why we chose the eagle as our theme for discussing cybersecurity issues