By Sean Martin | Co-Host: Marco Ciappelli

Guest: Francesco Cipollone

As part of our In The News series, in this episode, we connect with Francesco Cipollone to host a Q&A session where the questions were driven by the InfoSec community. The questions asked were presented to Francesco via social media and Francesco selected 3 questions to respond to in this episode. These are the people and their questions: Jim Manico [@manicode ] | John Opdenakker‏ [@j_opdenakker] | Tanya Janca [@shehackspurple].

By Sean Martin  | Co-host Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, we are joined by Holly Rollo, Chief Marketing Officer, SVP at RSA Security. Holly is also one of the keynote speakers at RSA Conference APJ — co-presenting with Rohit Ghai, President at RSA Security, she will be talking about: The New Why of Cybersecurity.

By Sean Martin  | Co-host Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, we are joined by Matthias Yeo, CEO, Fund Technologies Pte Ltd. Matthis is one of three judges responsible for naming the winner at this year’s inaugural Launch Pad Event (for which we are the exclusive media partner!). We really enjoyed our chat with Matthias as we learned more about the state of cybersecurity and innovation in the region coupled with his vision for the inaugural Launch Pad event.

By Sean Martin

Guests: Raluca Saceanu | Elena Steinke

The other day I came across a blog post talking about the impact the EU CyberSecurity Act could have now that it is officially “in force” as of Thursday, the 27th of June, 2019. To dig deeper into this topic, I connected with Elena Steinke and asked her to join me and the author of the blog post, Raluca Saceanu, for a quick chat.

By Marco Ciappelli
A conversation with Dr. Ryan Louie.

In this part 1 of our two-part podcast we talk about telemedicine from a psychological, and societal perspective, starting right from the beginning: the definition of the term. 

For Dr. Ryan, the appropriate general definition of telemedicine is “any type of technology that can connect patients with the care that they need for their health.” I have thought about this for a whole five minutes, and I couldn’t come up with something simpler and yet effective than this.

By Marco Ciappelli | Co-host Sean Martin

Three years ago, we started having our Chats On The Road to Las Vegas.

As we are gearing up to cover three more conferences, we are having our pre-event conversations for each one. As we are planning to make all them a recurring series, this particular podcast is already part of a solid ITSPmagazine tradition: the third Chats on the Road conversation with Black Hat General Manager, Steve Wylie. This episode kicks off our coverage for such a pillar event in our industry.

By Sean Martin

Guests: Brendan Bonner | John Durcan

Wouldn’t it be good if we could cross the business-to-cybersecurity bridge such that we all have a good picture for what’s important for the business — and ultimately for humanity and the societies for which we create? This is the main driver underneath a two-part conversation I had earlier this year with Brendan Bonner, Chief Technologist — Technology, Content and Business Services at IDA Ireland, and John Durcan, Senior Technologist at Enterprise Ireland.

By Marco Ciappelli | Co-host Sean Martin

In 1993 according to Timeline of Computer History [https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1993/] we have a few major events.

Damn! That was a long time ago but if you think that what is happening today is awesome, I think you missed out on the excitement of those days. Everything that now seems so easy, obvious, and maybe a bit vintage by now was showing us that the future was possible and was going to change our society and culture forever. It did.

But you know what else happened in 1993? A person that goes by the handle @thedarktangent created the first DEF CON hacker convention.

Guest Post By Rene Kolga

Ransomware has been around since 1989, yet it remains a very effective malware type for today’s cyberattackers. What can we learn from the movie, The Exorcist, when it comes to preparing for and dealing with what seems to be the inevitable?

By Sean Martin  | Co-host Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, we are joined by Diana Kelley, CyberSecurity Field CTO at Microsoft. Diana is also one of the keynote speakers at RSA Conference APJ for the 3rd time — this time, she will be talking about her session: Better Cybersecurity with AI and ML? Focus on Culture, Diversity and Inclusion.

By Marco Ciappelli

For ITSPmagazine's An InfoSec Life column I had the pleasure to talk with a talented and experienced CyberSecurity professional, an Hacker, a CISO, a 'CyberFeminist' whom, with great passion, supports and promotes women’s and other minorities’ involvement in the InfoSec Community. She is also a business person that makes cultural differences—she speaks seven languages—a key point of her understanding and promotion of cybersecurity model in enterprises and in our everyday life.

By Marco Ciappelli | Co-host Sean Martin 

Why do we go to conferences?

To meet fantastic people, create great content, and tell entertaining stories. Sometimes it all happens at the same time.

This was one of those occasions.

We hope you enjoy listening to this chat as much as we enjoyed having it.

By Marco Ciappelli | Co-host Sean Martin 

It was a bright, cold day in June, and the clocks were striking thirty past nine in the morning. On this last day on the Olympia show floor in London, after a few unsuccessful attempts, Sean and I were finally able to say hi, sit down, and have a good ole chat with Troy Hunt while we sipped on a cup of hot coffee. Yes, a podcast with Mr. Troy Hunt!

By Sean Martin

Guests: Scott Scheferman | Rick McElroy | @JaGoTu

I recently came across a post from Scott Scheferman about the BlueKeep vulnerability and patch that intrigued me. After a few attempts to bring together a few folks, I was able to pull in Rick McElroy and @JaGoTu to join Scott and I for a chat about what’s real with respect to this threat. Needless to say, this group did not disappoint.

During our nearly-one-hour chat, we cover tons of stuff and there’s a lot to absorb here. I would encourage you to take the time to learn from this conversation and then apply what you’ve learned to your infosec program. And, if you value the community, take a moment to share this with a few of your peers to help them out.

By Francesco Cipollone

Location, location, location and amazing content is enough of a reason to describe why AppSec California and ISSA-LA are rapidly becoming THE security conferences in SoCal and the places to be. But if that’s not enough to make sure it’s on your to-do list for 2020 — in this special guest post, Francesco breaks down the ISSA-LA conference into specific sessions to tell you more.

By Sean Martin | Co-host Marco Ciappelli

During Infosecurity Europe in London, Marco and Sean connected with Ian Tabor, car enthusiast and car hacker along with David Baker from Bugcrowd, to discuss the roles of ethical hacking and crowdsourced security analysis in ensuring the safety of drivers all around the world.

Ian, a core member of the Car Hacking Village — a group of professional and hobbyist car hackers who work together to provide hands-on, interactive car hacking learning, talks, hardware, and interactive contests — takes us through the trials and tribulations of the research he performs, including the challenges with sourcing the vehicles, finding the flaws, reporting the flaws, and protecting himself from potential legal action in the process.

By Sean Martin | Co-host Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin connect with Nicole Mills, the event director for Infosecurity Europe. Nicole took time out of her final moments of preparation to share with us what we can expect during the 24th edition of the summit taking place in the Olympia in London.

With more than 12 months invested in planning, attendees will be treated to 10 stages with talks taking place all day, every day, over 400 exhibitors with demonstrations and hands-on activities, and networking events within and outside the conference center. Listen in to hear more about the event that has a lot of something for everyone. And, if you have a moment while on-site at the event, thank Nicole, and her extended team, for their hard work bringing us all together to help each live a victorious and healthy InfoSec Life.

By Sean Martin | Co-host Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin speak with Killian Faughnan, Group CISO, William Hill. During the conversation, In addition to getting some insight into how Killian looks at cybersecurity as a whole, during our chat today we got to dig into the lightning talk Killian will be giving during InfoSec Europe in London as part of a 4-part keynote session titled Building Brand Infosec: Engaging Employees to Drive Secure Behaviour.

By Sean Martin | Co-host Marco Ciappelli

In today’s chat, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin speak with Kevin Fielder, CISO for Just Eat. During the conversation, Kevin shares his views on cybersecurity and what it means to secure the business at Just Eat, focusing on the 13 countries, 100,000 restaurant partners, 26 million customers, nearly 4000 colleagues in the company.

By Sean Martin

Guests: Eoin Byrne, Jacky Fox, Pat Larkin

Lead by IDA Ireland with support from Enterprise Ireland and in collaboration with academia, industry, and government, Cyber Ireland officially launched on 20 May, 2019 as the official establishment of a National Cyber Security Cluster in Ireland, hosted at Cork Institute of Technology. In addition to attending the event, I recorded a podcast with some of the board members and captured some pictures as well.