Today on Cyber Work, our deep-dive into manufacturing and operational technology (OT) cybersecurity brings us to the problem of endpoint security. Tom Molden, CIO of Global Executive Engagement at Tanium, has been grappling with these problems for a while. We talk about his early, formative tech experiences (pre-Windows operation system!), his transformational position moving from fiscal strategy and implementation into his first time as chief information officer and talk through the...

Infosec and Cyber Work Hacks are here to help you pass the CCNA exam! For today’s Hack, Wilfredo Lanz, Infosec bootcamp instructor in charge of Cisco’s CCNA certification, walks us through four sample CCNA questions, walking through each answer and discounting the wrong ones with explanations, allowing you to reach the right answer in a logical and stress-free way. And the only way you’re going to see it is by staying right here for this Cyber Work Hack! 0:00 - CCNA exam sample questions...

AT&T Cybersecurity’s head of evangelism, Theresa Lanowitz, is today's guest. Lanowitz has amazing and wide-ranging career achievements, from her time with analyst firms Gartner and Voke, work on Java’s JBuilder environment and strategic marketing for the Jini Project, which was proto-IoT going back to the late ‘90s! With all of these incredible stories, we talked far and wide about manufacturing security concerns, she breaks down the key pain points around edge computing and talks...

Thomas Pace of NetRise talks about industrial control systems security. We’ll learn about Pace's time in the United States Marine Corps in cyber-intelligence, his move to forensics and then ICS and why the greatest asset a security professional can have is the ability to find, clearly see and create narratives. I always find ICS professionals to be fascinating, and Pace took us down some new paths, so if you’re also interested in ICS Security, keep it here for today’s episode of Cyber...

Infosec and Cyber Work Hacks want you to pass the Cisco CCNA exam! To help you do that, Infosec’s CCNA Boot Camp instructor Wilfredo Lanz gives you his top tips and tricks for taking the CCNA exam! Lanz will give you some advice for narrowing down the right answer by eliminating the obviously wrong ones, common mistakes people make while taking the exam and what to do if, for some reason, you don’t pass on the first try. And most importantly, why you must take the practice exams before the...

Cyber Work Hacks is back to keep you updated with the CISSP exam! Infosec boot camp instructor Steve Spearman joins me to tell us about the new changes to the CISSP’s common body of knowledge (CBK) and how the changes to the CBK should (or shouldn’t!) affect your study and preparation for the exam! Keep learning, and keep it here for another Cyber Work Hack. – Learn more about the CISSP: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/training/cissp/ – Get your free ebook, "CISSP exam tips and tricks (to...

Infosec and Cyber Work Hacks are here to help you pass the CISSP exam. Today’s Hack is part two, so I encourage you to go back and listen to part one of Steve Spearman’s CISSP exam tips and tricks. In part two, I pass the mic to Spearman to give you his top five test-taking strategies for the CISSP. What’s the Sesame Street rule? How does the CISSP feel about absolutes? Keep it here, and you’ll find out in part two of this week’s Cyber Work Hack.  – Learn more about the CISSP:...

Infosec and Cyber Work Hacks are here to help you pass the CISSP exam! This is part one of a two-part Cyber Work in which Infosec’s CISSP boot camp instructor Steve Spearman gives you his top tips and tricks for taking the CISSP exam! In part one, we’ll talk about what makes the CISSP such a difficult exam, common mistakes people make while taking the exam and what to do if, heaven forbid, you don’t pass on the first try. You don’t have to do this alone, but you need to listen to Spearman's...

Alicia Olson, VP of Communications at Optiv, is today's guest. Olson came to cybersecurity from the oil and gas sector. She tells us how she got interested in communications for security professionals, explains how she turned Optiv’s distributed workforce into a cohesive unit and gives CISOs some crucial advice and ideas for dealing with that moment that no one wants to have to explain — the inevitable security breach.  0:00 - What do CISOs need in 2024? 1:40 - Working in communications 3:50...

Infosec and the Cyber Work Hacks podcast are here to help you prepare for and pass the CISSP exam from ISC2. For today’s hack, we’re talking boot camps. If you’ve been preparing for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) study guide for six months or more, you might learn better in a concentrated, focused environment with expert instruction.  And that expert is Infosec boot camp instructor Steve Spearman, who has helped hundreds of learners prepare for and pass their...

Don't believe the movies and TV shows — ethical hacking is not done by frantically typing on the keyboard in a race against the clock. What's a career in ethical hacking and penetration testing really like? Join our panel of experts who have worked in the field for decades to find out! In this one-hour live event, we'll cover: 0:00 - Ethical hacking fact vs fiction 7:45 - First, getting into cybersecurity 12:00 - Does ethical hacking fiction affect people? 19:20 - Cybersecurity students...

Infosec and Cyber Work hacks want to help you pass the Security+ exam! We have three separate hacks on this channel to help you through the process of studying for and taking the exam. But what about in the years after, when it’s time to get ready to recertify? Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober walks you through all the different ways you can earn your continuing education units (CEU), how many you need to re-certify your Security+ and some less-known activities that can keep your CEU...

Tom Terronez joins Cyber Work to discuss security in an industry that doesn’t always make the headlines for security news: dentistry. Terronez co-founded Medix Dental, an IT and security provider for the dental industry, 20 years ago, and has the lowdown on some of the specific security issues dentist offices and networks face. It is an uphill battle to get the industry to acknowledge its extreme insecurity, and I find out how a shared love of Hall & Oates got Terronez into this very...

Infosec and the Cyber Work Hacks podcast are here to help you pass the Security+ exam! For today’s hack, let’s talk bootcamps. If you’ve been piecing your way through the Sec+ study guide for six months or more, it’s possible that you would learn better in a concentrated, focused environment with expert instruction. I’m talking, of course, about Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober! Goberwill walks you through what the Infosec five-day Security+ boot camp is like the learning and...

Miami University's (in Oxford, Ohio) Farmer School of Business Information Systems and Security researcher Joseph Nwankpa joins Cyber Work today. Nwankpa recently wrote a report that overturns some huge assumptions: he found that work-from-home employees are, to a large degree, less of a security issue than many on-premises workers. Nwankpa discusses The Peltzman Effect, the persistent struggles to create security awareness that lasts past the initial training sessions and talks about some...

Cyber Work Hacks is here to answer your questions about the CompTIA Security+ exam! Today, Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober reviews Security+ exam sample questions and shares tips to pass your Security+ 701 exam. 0:00 - Security+ exam mechanics 1:15 - The different types of Security+ exam questions 3:55 - How do you see your Security+ exam results? 5:10 - Security+ exam example question 1 9:27 - Security+ exam example question 2 11:32- Security+ exam example question 3 15:08-...

Ken Westin of Panther Labs has a bit of fact-checking he wants to do on some of the tech stories we read daily in the papers. Does J.P. Morgan really get 45 billion cyberattacks per day? Really? Are there other factors in this number that aren’t emphasized in the interest of chasing panic clicks? Westin and I talk about responsible ways to cover big security stories in the news, ways that each of us can become cyber fact-checkers and advocates, and Westin tells me about how his personal...

Cyber Work Hacks is here to answer your questions about the CompTIA Security+ exam! Today, Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober tells us about the new changes to the Security+ exam and how it will (or will not) affect your study and preparation for the exam! Keep learning, and keep it here for another Cyber Work Hack. Get your free Security+ ebook, "CompTIA Security+ 701: How the world's most popular cert is changing in 2024"...

Today on Cyber Work, Sean Falconer of Skyflow and host of the Partially Redacted and Software Huddle podcasts, joins me to talk about the present and future of consumer and user data privacy, the pros and cons of adding more privacy regulations into place and his journey from software development and engineering to his current place of working closely and deeply with the future of API-based data encryption and privacy. And stick around because Falconer will share the best career advice he...

Adrianna Iadarola of CyberSN joins me today to break down every spot on the cybersecurity job search, hiring, upskilling and retention pipeline. After her raucous and highly informative presentation at ISACA Digital Trust World, I knew I had to introduce you to this great analyst and thinker. Whether you’re doing the hiring or being the hiree, you will find something crucial to your new year journey today on Cyber Work. 0:00 - Problems with cybersecurity hiring 2:19 - How Adrianna Iadarola...

Today's guest is Anthony Pacilio, VP Neurodiverse Solutions at CAI. I met Pacilio at this year’s ISACA Digital Trust World event in Boston, and I was immediately fascinated with his insights on hiring and attracting neurodiverse professionals in security, IT, engineering and related industries, all of which suffer a skills gap and all of which are in need of new insights and working methods. Pacilio and I have a substantive conversation about changing the structure of the “6-hour marathon”...

Dan Roberts, host of the “Tech Whisperers” podcast, and a mentor, coach and leader to CISOs and other tech-focused C-suite members for nearly four decades, is today's guest. We talk about Roberts' earliest work, including coining the term “Developing the human side of technology” all the way back in 1984, to spearheading the CyberLX program for CISOs and those aspiring to be. Roberts also provides a four-stage growth chart for CISOs that, quite frankly, scales well to just about any tech...

Confidence Staveley of the CyberSafe Foundation and the CyberGirls program is today's guest. CyberGirls is a year-long cohort program in which women in Africa ages 18 to 28 can learn cybersecurity basics and create career tracks to fast-track these students into cybersecurity careers! Staveley tells us about the workings of the program, how she uses her YouTube channel to teach API security with food analogies and explains the origins of what is likely the first-ever Afrobeat song about...

Ian Campbell, security operations engineer at DomainTools, is someone who has truly carved a niche out for himself in his organization and in the cybersecurity landscape as a whole. His blogs for the DomainTools website have provided paths for neurodiverse cybersecurity professionals and allies who want to make their organizations more friendly to neurodiversity to undertake the small changes to work roles and company culture that can net huge improvements for folks with different types of...