Dark Reading Confidential
At any moment around the world, cybercriminals and nation-state sponsored hackers are targeting businesses, government entities, and nonprofits for financial gain, cyber espionage, or geopolitical advantage. But behind every organization facing this nonstop barrage of cyberattack activity are dedicated cybersecurity professionals working to defend their organizations’ networks, systems, and sensitive information. Dark Reading Confidential brings you rare, firsthand stories from the cybersecurity practitioners in the cyber trenches, as well high-profile industry experts and headline-makers. Subscribe, and treat your ears to compelling stories and insights from the actual people fighting back against these hackers, and the experts helping to shape ever-evolving cybersecurity defenses.
Episodes
Cyber researchers Ismael Valenzuela and Vitor Ventura share riveting stories about the creative tricks they used to track down advanced persistent threat groups, and the surprises they discovered along the way.
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 5: Christofer Hoff, chief secure technology officer at LastPass, shares the human side of the story of how he led his team through a major cyber incident and built from the ground up a security team and security culture. In this frank conversation, Hoff has some valuable advice for how to handle and rebound from a cybersecurity incident.
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Episode 4: The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) release of its new post-quantum cryptography standards last summer was the quiet start of a new chapter in cybersecurity. Now no longer something that can be filed away for future reference, post-quantum encryption has officially landed on the desks of cybersecurity leaders worldwide.
We wanted to explore what comes next, so we recruited some world-class exper...
Episode 3: On September 11, 2019, two cybersecurity professionals were arrested in Dallas County, Iowa and forced to spend the night in jail -- just for doing their jobs. Gary De Mercurio and Justin Wynn ultimately found themselves used as pawns in a very public and ugly power dispute between the local county Sheriff's office and the state, forced to justify the physical penetration test that the state of Iowa had hired them to con...
Episode 2: When a business gets infected with ransomware - its systems and data locked down by cybercriminals - there is rarely a quick fix to get back up and running. Sometimes the nature of the attack and the lack of backup options force the victim organization to pony up and pay ransom to the attackers. That's typically where a ransomware negotiator – often a third-party incident responder – steps in. These are the experts who c...
The first episode of Dark Reading Confidential dives into the complicated relationship between the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) within publicly traded companies. Frederick “Flee” Lee, CISO of Reddit, Beth Waller, a practicing cyber attorney who represents many CISOs, and Ben Lee, Chief Legal Officer of Reddit, chat with Dark Reading’s editor-in-chief Kelly Jackson Higgins ...
Breaking News: Dark Reading's brand-new podcast, Dark Reading Confidential, is coming this month. Dark Reading Confidential brings you rare, firsthand stories from cybersecurity practitioners in the cyber trenches. Join us for our inaugural episode, "The CISO and the SEC," with our guests Reddit CISO Fredrick Lee, Reddit Chief Legal Officer Ben Lee, and cybersecurity and data privacy attorney Beth Burgin Waller, who will share thei...
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