”The Cyber Hero Adventures Show: Defenders of the Digital Universe”!

Ransomware: To pay or not to pay...that is the question!

Hello Unsung Cyber Heroes!
 
Today's show focuses on answering the questions: What is THE most devastating cybercrime perpetrated against organizations of ALL sizes and... what happens next?
We have two incredible guests on today's show.
Stephanie Snyder is the SVP & Commercial Strategy Leader of Cyber Solutions at Aon. Her industry focus includes technology companies, manufacturers, retailers, life sciences companies, and financial institutions. She has experience with Cyber and E&O coverage as both a broker and underwriter.
Daniel Tobok is the CEO at Cytelligence, an Aon Cyber Solutions Company. Cytelligence is THE elite force of global cyber security. Daniel is a seasoned and serial entrepreneur with extensive expertise in cyber security and he has personally participated in more than 2,500 digital forensic investigations after or during cyber attacks!
We'll discuss...
The CURRENT state of Ransomware.
What are the key findings from the 2020 Cybersecurity Risk Report?
Has there been an increase in attacks or the severity of the attacks or both?
What about Incident Response and Restoration?What are the trends in incidence response? New or emerging threats?
How important is it to pick the right incident response firm to solve a breach?
What are the common mistakes clients make selecting the wrong firm?
What’s happening from the carriers’ perspectives? Are attacks driving an increase in claims which are then driving an increase in rates?
How has ransomware, restoration, and dilemma of paying a ransom changed the breach business?
How do you work with the insurer to determine when or if to recommend a client pays the ransom?
How are insurers viewing ransomware attacks and the trade off between attempted recovery and paying a ransom?
How are insurers adjusting policies to deal with these threats?
Are insurers beginning to require more of the insured – incident response readiness, proactive work, threat scanning, etc.?
To learn more visit: https://www.aon.com/cyber-solutions
If you would like to be a guest on our show, please send an email to gary@cyberheroescomics.com
Gary Berman, Host
 

To Share or Not to Share. Information Sharing & Analysis Centers

Today's show focuses on answering the question: Why are Information Sharing and Analysis Centers...ISACS... the key to winning the battle in the digital universe?
Let's begin by saying THANK YOU to today's panel of unsung cyber heroes who represent the countless people who toil in anonymity to keep us safe at home, work and school!.
Denise Anderson currently serves as Chair of the National Council of ISACs and she is President of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC). Prior to H-ISAC, she was a Vice President of FS-ISAC (Financial Services) where for almost nine years she helped the ISAC grow and achieve its successful status in the information sharing community. She has over 25 years of executive management level experience in the private sector.
Scott Algier is the Executive Director of the Information Technology – Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), and Executive Director of the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI).
Scott works at the intersection of cybersecurity policy and operations. He is the Founder, President and CEO of the cybersecurity consulting firm Conrad, Inc.
Faye Francy is the Executive Director of the Auto I-SAC. She has over 30 years of diverse experience in government and industry specializing in forensic chemistry, aviation, security, and networked systems. Faye and her team serve the global automotive industry through the analysis and sharing of trusted and timely cyber threat information about existing or potential cyber-related threats and vulnerabilities for on-road vehicle electronics and associated networks.
Last but not least, Carlos Kizzee is the Vice President of Intelligence at Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Carlos has significant government-to-government, and government-to-industry legal and policy interpretation and development experience in the areas of information technology; knowledge managment; sensitive information sharing; and sensitive information protection.
We're going to learn a lot about what all of our guests do, but even more importantly, WHY do they do it? What are their missions? 
We'll learn what is Critical Infrastructure and about CISA (the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency).
We'll assess the state of vehicle, healthcare, retail and hospitality cybersecurity? 
We'll discuss the importance of Diversity & Inclusion.
What about small to medium sized businesses? 
All of that and MUCH more on today's show!
To connect with our guests: 
Denise Anderson
https://h-isac.orghttps://www.nationalisacs.org
Faye Francy
www.automotiveisac.comwww.nationalisacs.org
Scott Algier
www.it-isac.org.Twitter @ITISAC
If YOU would like to be a guest on our show, please send an email to gary@cyberheroescomics.com
 

THANK YOU: Veterans & Cybersecurity: The Perfect ”Force Multiplier”

Listen and learn from America's Veterans who continue to protect and defend us in the Digital Universe and how YOU can have a great career in cybersecurity!

Micro Briefing with John Kindervag on Zero Trust Framework

Managed Services Providers: Defenders of Small & Medium Businesses!

Managed Service Providers (MSP's and MSSP's)  play a vital role in cybersecurity, especially for the Small/Medium Business (SMB) sector. On todays episode, we'll hear from incredible thought leaders including:
Corey Munson, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, PC Matic.
Charlie Tupitza, Cybersecurity & Data Protection Lead in U.S. & Territories, Americas Small Business Development Centers.
Blake Dowling, CEO, Aegis Business Technologies.
 
On today's episode, we'll listen and learn about:
What's keeping them up at night about the current state of cybersecurity of small/medium businesses?
What role does a Managed Services Provider play in protecting their clients?What are some of the uniques challenges facing MSP's?
What are the standards that they use or recommend such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) being developed by the Department of Defense?Given the new normal of working at home, how have their organizations adapted to this rapidly changing environment and how are they working to enhance cybersecurity for other organizations?From a communications perspective, both internally and externally, how's it going?
All this and more...
 

Gary Berman Interview with Rajiv Dholakia, Nok Nok Labs

An Interview with Rajiv Dholakia one of the technical giants behind the FIDO Alliance and NokNok Labs.

The 2020 Election & Disinformation: Is Our Democracy Under Attack!

Hello and welcome to the "Unsung Cyber Hero Adventures" TV Network,
Today's is a SPECIAL one-hour episode that focuses on answering the questions:
What is disinformation and what purposes does it serve?”
What must the US and other democracies do to insure fair and accurate elections and…
How will the cybersecurity and IT Community help insure a fair and accurate election and combat disinformation?
What about societal resilience?
What influence does fake news have on politics?
How broad is the reach of untrustworthy sites?Is the Internet making things worse – for example, increasing polarization – or is increased polarization a reflection that things are getting worse?We'll discuss the backfire effect and echo chambers and the value of fact-checking social media partners.
We have three great guests on today's show...
John Bambenek is Vice-President for Security Research and Intelligence at ThreatSTOP and an incident handler with the Internet Storm Center. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois where he teaches courses in cybersecurity.
He has been researching security threats and criminal organizations for 18 years and coordinating with US and foreign law enforcement entities to help bring criminal actors to justice.
Our next guest is Dave Piscitello. Dave has been involved in Internet technology for over 40 years. He has authored books on internet and remote access, including Understanding Voice over Internet Protocol Security.
Dave publishes articles regularly on security, DNS, anti-phishing, malware, Internet policy and privacy. He maintains a highly active, insightful, and entertaining info site as The Security Skeptic. Dave is a Partner at Interisle Consulting Group.
Llewelyn King is the Co-creator and host of the PBS Show, The White House Chronicles, a weekly news and current affairs program known for its originality, crisp thinking, humor and panache. He created the program in 1997, and he produces and host it with journalist Linda Gasparello. The show focuses on what is impacting the way we live and work now -- including science, technology, medicine, energy, environment, books -- and contributing to policy.
We hope this helps...
Gary Berman, Host
 
 

Wilbur Wannacry LIVES! Ransomware Experts Christiaan Beek@ McAfee, Dave Piscitello@Interisle Consulting Group

Our first guest is Christaan Beek. He manages threat intelligence research within McAfee's Office of the CTO. He leads research in advanced attacks and assists in cyberattack take-down operations. In previous roles, Beek was Director of Threat Intelligence in McAfee Labs and Director of Incident Response and Forensics at Foundstone, Intel Security’s forensic services arm.
Our next guest is Dave Piscitello. Dave has been involved in Internet technology for over 40 years. He has authored books on internet and remote access, including Understanding Voice over Internet Protocol Security. Dave publishes articles regularly on security, DNS, anti-phishing, malware, Internet policy and privacy. He maintains a highly active, insightful, and entertaining info site as The Security Skeptic. Dave is a Partner at Interisle Consulting Group.
Our guests will share their incredible experiences dealing with ransomware and related cybercrime. Watch and learn about real-life stories of ransomware answering three questions,
1. What happened?
2. What were the consequences?
3. What were the lessons learned?
You'll enjoy hearing about how cyber criminals are leveraging Covid-19 to deploy ransomware which sectors are the MOST vulnerable and why, should a victim pay the ransom?
All of that and more on today's show.
We hope this helps...Gary Berman
 

Mitre: Architects of the Digital Universe | Sam Visner, Director, National FFRDC

Samuel S. Visner is the director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (NCF), which MITRE manages in support of the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE).
In this role, Visner oversees efforts to bring together experts from industry, government, and academia to demonstrate integrated cybersecurity solutions that are cost-effective, repeatable, and scalable. The FFRDC is the first of its kind dedicated to cybersecurity.
In today's episode, Sam shares his thoughts about a wide range of issues and opportunities facing the Digital Universe!

America's Small Business Development Centers: Charlie Tupitza, Cybersecurity & Data Protection Lead, U.S. & Territories

Recently, after a speech that I gave at the NIST Software & Supply Chain Assurance Meeting, at Mitre, I had the opportunity to listen and learn from some of America's cybersecurity thought leader regarding the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). The mission of the CMMC is to create a culture of cybersecurity, standards and certifications for the more than 300,000 suppliers to the Department of Defense.
An important part of that discussion focused on America's small and medium businesses and the challenges and opportunities that they face regarding the CMMC, according to today's guest, Charlie Tupitza. from the ASBDC.
There are a number of reasons that these businesses make attractive targets to hackers including: 1. Many do not have the resources, both technical and/or financial to properly defend themselves and 2. They don't think that they have anything worthwhile to attract the attention of hackers. Both are false. We'll listen and learn why and what small and medium businesses can do to protect themselves and how ASBDC can help!