Security Jabber - Episode 8
Part 2b of the Data Identification Series: Layer 8, The Insider Threat
Special Guest: Michael Lipinski, CISO and Chief Security Strategist, Securonix
Guest Host: Jason Brown, Lab Manager / Guru of All Mystical InfoSec Things, CBI
The Security Jabber team took a little detour on our three-part series in Data Protection this week. We dove deeper into insider threats and how they just might be the biggest risk in securing data. The studio was full with again with multiple guests. Michael Lipinski, CISO and Chief Security Strategist, Securonix was our special interview host while Jason Brown, Lab Manager / Mystical Guru of All InfoSec Things, CBI also joined the team to give his perspective.
The show opened with a story about a hacker setting of all 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, is it a conspiracy, you’ll have to listen to find out. A recent release of NSA tools by the Shadow Brokers Group and how they can be used for Whitehat or Blackhat purposes is also discussed. Our second segment focused on seven ways hackers targeted your employees, the panel dove in and gave their personal experiences in using these methods when they do their Whitehat hacking. In our final segment, we interviewed Michael Lipinski from Securonix to learn about how behavioral analytics and new technologies like machine learning are changing our security practices for the better.
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Links from the Show
- USA Today - Hacker Sets Off all 156 Emergency Sirens in Dallas
- The Hacker News - Shadow Brokers Group Releases More Stolen NSA Hacking Tools & Exploits
- Dark Reading - 7 Ways Hackers Target Your Employees
- IBM - Building a Cybersecurity Culture Around Layer 8
- Dark Reading - Insider Threat Fear Greater Than Ever, Survey Shows
- The Hacker News - Beware of an Unpatched Microsoft Word 0-Day Flaw being Exploited in the Wild
- The Economist - The Incentives for Software Firms to Take Security Seriously Are too Weak