30 Minutes with a Hacker: Recent Episodes
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Join us for an engaging monthly podcast series – “30 Minutes with a Hacker.” This series delivers insightful and thought-provoking discussions with some of our nation’s best and brightest ethical hackers and industry leaders. It’s not every day you get to listen in on talks with individuals who are frequently called on by the US government and military to help in/on operations to protect our country. This elite group of men and women are in the trenches daily, participating in the prevention of real-world cyber threats. Tapping into their mindshare on how hackers think to learn how we can guard ourselves against these kinds of attacks is both timely and relevant. You don’t want to miss this must-hear series.
Stan Rabin, CTO of Keno Kozie, joins us as our guest as we dive into the legal sector and why a hacker considers law firms, large and small, a prime target and the steps to take to protect yourself.
Join us as Lewis Needham and Rick Conlee of ATEC Group discuss several of the recent breaches that have taken place in Albany, NY and how that translates across the country and globally. The war is not out there somewhere, it is in each of our backyards. It is time small companies realize their exposure and take the steps to protect themselves or face the potential catastrophic outcome.
It is no surprise that if you don't have effective cybersecurity, your organization is exposed to bad actors. It’s not just a matter of if, but rather when, you will suffer a major breach – the effects of which could be catastrophic. Yet, it costs money to secure your organization and you likely can't afford to do everything. Focusing in on the critical, must-have cybersecurity solutions is essential to small to midsized businesses. Join us as we discuss the essential cybersecurity "table stakes" for smaller companies, with Monreal IT.
Join us as we discuss the global cybersecurity skills gap, the impact it is having on businesses and what organizations can do about it.
Join us as we discuss the importance of creating - and testing - an effective Incident Response Plan, which can make all the difference in whether your company can survive a cyber attack. Few organization realize they are either a direct target or a pathway to a larger target, and therefore susceptible to a breach that can have a potentially catastrophic impact. Learn the steps you need to take before a breach happens.
Join us as we discuss one of the critical elements for having a fighting chance against hackers. We dive into important elements of deploying an effective security information and event management (SIEM) solution and compare it to extended detection and response (XDR), something continuing to gain momentum in the marketplace for cybersecurity
Join us as we dive into one of the most critical shifts organizations can make to protect themselves against cyber attacks. Bad actors are most likely already in your network and have been, on average, for over 180 days, planning their next ransomware attack or other nefarious activity. What steps can you take to protect your organization?
Join us as we discuss Log4j and Log4Shell, likely the greatest cybersecurity vulnerability of the past 40 years, and certainly of the last decade. This vulnerability impacts everyone using Windows, Linux, Apple (including IOS) – from large businesses to individuals, across the globe. Learn how to protect yourself against this massive threat, which unfortunately isn’t going away anytime soon.
Is this the year the pendulum shifts back in favor of the good guys in the fight against cybercrime, or will we see the uphill climb only increasing? Join us as we share the top cybersecurity predictions for 2022 we are seeing in the channel from a global perspective, as we gear up and prepare for what is ahead.
Should an organization have the right to 'hack back' perpetrators who have attacked them with ransomware, malware, data theft or any other cyberattack? Should the company be able to steal their data back, or cause retribution to the entity that hacked them? Do organizations have a right to defend themselves against these bad actors? Join us as we dive into this topic and discuss the pros and cons of proposed bipartisan legislation to allow organizations to go on the offense and hack back.
As more tools become available to fight against cybercrime, leveraging them all properly becomes a daunting task for many organizations, especially those that are understaffed with expert talent. Sadly, that is most organizations, making it more critical for organizations to take a comprehensive approach and look at "security orchestration" as a way to have a fighting chance and not burnout out your team. Join us as we uncover this topic in more detail, as it is vital to effective short and longterm cybersecurity.
Join us as we discuss who makes up the world of cybercrime today, look at their motivation, how they are organized, and how they work together. The ways in which bad actors communicate and share information is one of the biggest reasons why they are so effective. However, all is not lost — learn about the steps that can be taken to minimize the impact and lessen the chances of being the next victim to a cyber attack.
Taking the proper steps to secure your organization is more critical today than at any time before. We dive into both vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to clear up some confusion we are seeing in the market, how to leverage both, and when.
Over the July 4th weekend, one of the largest global ransomware attacks we have encountered to date occurred. Join us as we discuss this massive breach and how XDR technology is being utilized to counter attacks like these when deployed properly.
Following the Colonial Pipeline breach wass another major breach, this time targeting the largest meatpacker in the US. As we dive into the JBS meatpacking plant breach, we get into the importance of utilizing a technology call Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Although SASE is rapidly being adopted in effective cybersecurity, there are a number of misconceptions. Join us as we demystify what SASE is really all about, how to leverage it and the impact it can have in securing your organization.
The Colonial Pipeline breach has emphasized to the American public how a nation state cybercrime attack has the potential to be more of a real threat to countries than traditional warfare. When our resources are impacted, people better understand how cybercrime is not just a technological threat, but also a potential physical threat as well. Join us as we dive into the concept of "zero trust" architecture and why it is so vital as a central approach in protecting ourselves from the attacks that are continuing to escalate.
A vulnerability assessment is only one of the early steps to protecting your organization. As the holes are plugged, followed by the hiring of an ethical hacker to do penetration testing, it becomes clear that a skilled hacker could still break into your organization – even when proper steps are being taken. When this realization settles in, there is a key shift towards quickly identifying when there has been a breach, not just trying to prevent a breach. An more importantly, finding the intruder and kicking them out before minimal damage can take place. Join us as we discuss the importance of utilizing threat hunting to protect your organization.
The cyber threat of foreign powers not only to the United States but to other countries is being realized continually. Join us as we discuss our privacy - or lack thereof – along with the threat of China, Russia and other countries in their race to gain a leg up in cyber warfare.
The use of cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications is increasing exponentially with organizations large and small. Does this mean your data is more secure? Join us as we chat with our Cyber Range blue team and red team ethical hackers about how to secure your data and not make some common mistakes leveraged by hackers. Guest appearances by Thomas Wang and Don Zelenak with Impelix.
You have just been notified that there has been a cybersecurity breach with your organization. Now what? Join us as we discuss what so few organizations are prepared for when the inevitable happens. Guest appearances by Josh Davis and Darrell Switzer with Kudelski Security.
It isn't as much a question of if you will be breached, but a matter of when. Most don't even realize they have been breached. Join us as we look at how organizations can mitigate the risk and, more importantly, the impact when a breach does happen. Guest appearances by Corey Ainscough and Brad Mathis of Keller Schroeder.
Many companies are beginning the process to migrate back to the office after working remotely for months. What are the security risks we'll see in doing so, and what steps can be taken to protect ourselves from an IT perspective? Guest appearances with Allen Jenkins and Rick Lull with SyCom Technologies.
As a follow-up to last month's episode, we will dive a little deeper into the impact we are seeing across the country as companies scramble to operate remotely. We are looking at how the hacking community is targeting company executives working from home. Keno Kozie shares what they are seeing in the market with their customer base, and how they are securing them.
As more and more employees are scrambling to get set up to work remote due to the pandemic, this opens up opportunities for hackers to try and exploit it for their own gain. Join us for a discussion with two key individuals from CMA Technology Solutions, Adam Arceneaux and Ken Stringer.
There are a lot of great tools and new technologies that can aide us in securing our organizations. However, it's important to make sure we are handling the fundamentals first, otherwise all of the cool technology is probably a waste of money. Join us as we bring in our team of white hat hackers for a discussion with two key individuals from SHI International Corp., Philip Armbrust and Denny Trujillo.
Operational Management: How is the solution being managed? Do you have a dedicated admin assigned, or is it "best effort" support in your team? Are you keeping track of patches and critical vendor notices? Even though a solution can be properly deployed and tested, missing a critical patch could nullify significant parts. of the solution. Guest appearances: Darren Bakula and Ryan LaGanke with Monreal Consulting.
People are seeing breaches and ransomware attacks happening in record numbers, yet many companies still aren't willing to take the necessary steps to protect themselves. As an IT Company, how do you consult with your customers to get them to make the right decisions to secure their company? Guest appearance by Gary Bren, Managing Partner with Turner Technology.
Is This Thing On? You've just deployed a new state-of-the-art security tool. It appears to be doing something, but are you confident it is working as advertised? Newly deployed tools may slow hackers down, but they know the odds are in their favor that you missed something when setting it up - and they also know they have a better chance at long term success if they can beat your defensive tools. Today's discussion addresses why it's important to validate your security tools and just how to do it. Guest appearance by Lewis Needham with ATEC Group.