All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

It's pretty darn easy to just utter the words "we're 100% secure." Pulling that off seems universally impossible, but some organizations are adamant about certain types of safety so they aim for 100%.

This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson. Our sponsored guest is Yoav Regev (@yoav_regev), CEO, Sentra.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Sentra

Sentra’s Data Security Posture Management Solution not only discovers and classifies cloud data, but ensures it always has the proper security posture. No matter where the data is moved or copied, Sentra can identify the type of data, who has access to it, and how it’s meant to be secured.

In this episode: 

What does it take to have a successful security program?
What are the things to focus on when speaking with executives?
How do you stay innovative as a security professional and have new fresh perspectives?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

A CISO calls on security vendors to stop the spamming and cold calling. Are these annoyances the direct result the way salespeople are measured? Is that what drives the desperation and bad behavior?

This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Our guest is Dmitriy Sokolovskiy, CISO, Avid.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Varonis

Everyday, your employees share thousands of sensitive files with too many people, exposing data to the entire organization – or even the entire internet. Varonis monitors sharing link activity and intelligently eliminates links that aren’t needed – reducing your risk on a continual basis. Discover more at www.varonis.com/cisoseries.

In this episode:

• What NEW ways could salespeople be measured that would encourage good behavior with CISOs?
• There's still this desire to draw a linear path to sales, but how often does it cleanly play out that way?
• Are integrators, MSSPs, and resellers leveling the playing field for cybersecurity vendors?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

We are all very easily distracted, and adversaries know that. So they'll try any little trick to make us not pay attention, look away, or do what we're not supposed to do all in an effort to break our human defenses.

This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Our guest is Shaun Marion, CISO, McDonald's.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Sentra

Sentra’s Data Security Posture Management Solution not only discovers and classifies cloud data, but ensures it always has the proper security posture. No matter where the data is moved or copied, Sentra can identify the type of data, who has access to it, and how it’s meant to be secured.

In this episode:

• Do you have a “security hive” and what does it do for you?
• What are the active behaviors you're deploying to reduce the stress in your life as a CISO and how are you doing it for your team, and all staff as well? ?
• Could volunteering help with burnout and recruitment?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

For those security practitioners who leave a job to go work for a security vendor, please stop calling it "going to the dark side."

This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson. Our sponsored guest is Jason Mar-Tang, director of sales engineering, Pentera.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Pentera

Pentera is the category leader for Automated Security Validation, allowing every organization to test with ease the integrity of all cybersecurity layers including their ransomware readiness, unfolding true, current security exposures at any moment, at any scale.

In this episode:

• Why do we call security practitioners who leave a job to go work for a security vendor, "going to the dark side?"
• Do security professionals say this because once they go work for a vendor their motivation shifts from protecting to sales?
• Over the years what other small steps have we seen that have made improvements in the vendor/practitioner divide?