In today’s episode, Sean connects with Merlin Namuth, Business Information Security Officer for ReedGroup and fellow advisory board member for the Pepperdine Cyber Risk Professional (CyRP) Certification program. In this conversation, Merlin discusses the concepts of leading up, leading across, leading down, and leading within, while keeping a close eye on the importance of building relationships and trust in all cases.

After so many conversations and so much running around, Friday arrived, and we decided to have one more recap chat with Dr. Chris Pierson, right before the last of the three talks he was delivering at this RSA Conference.

Following up on the Live Expert Panel he moderated for ITSPmagazine, we wanted to summarize what the GDPR and privacy talk felt like during RSA, and what to expect from this critical step for privacy.

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Frédéric Vezon, Founder of ASPertise, a technology service company that leverages the assets of atypical (Asperger’s, Autism, High IQ) consultants, chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton about his Asperger-owned company and how neurodiverse folks are ideal for cybersecurity.

During our week in San Francisco for the RSA Conference 2018, we wanted to meet and have a chat with our friends at Webroot: Gary Hayslip, VP and Global CISO, and Tom Caldwell, Senior Director of Engineering.

We were curious to know their opinion about this year’s conference, the most discussed topics and trends, and what the present and near future of IT security looks like for small and medium businesses.

Is the human employee the weakest link?



Let’s see… we give them worthless cybersecurity training (if at all), they fall for an attack, and therefore they are clearly the problem, right? Wrong!

The main question we discussed was: “Why is it so hard for people to grasp the concept of cybersecurity and what can organizations do about it?” 



As we were approaching the end of the conference, we were curious to know how the Sandbox and the Villages presence worked out at this year RSA. So Sean and I sat down with him and talked about circuses and carnivals, world fairs and expositions, which might as well be the future of cybersecurity conferences.  

Wait, what? Well, let me explain. 

This conversation happened in San Francisco during RSA Conference 2018, and to be more specific it was recorded in the SandBoxes. If you hear some background noise, it is because people got really, really excited there!

Have you heard about BEHAVIORAL E-MANIPULATION yet? 
Well, you are about to learn about it.

Amongst others interesting conversations, this one you are about to listen is with Alexandru ‘JAY' Balan, Chief Security Researcher at Bitdefender. 

He is an expert in IoT Security, and we thought it would be a good thing to chat with him to see if he could help us to break down some of the technical talks into understandable examples and advice for all the people that use Internet-connected devices. So we did.

Jay started with a strong statement: IOT is not an option anymore.

What? Yes, true story.

On this podcast you are about to listen to is how Sean Martin and I started the RSA Conference week, and we are happy it started this way. Our guest is Sarah Squire, a Senior Technical Architect at Ping Identity.

This conversation covers a topic that would become one of the recurring themes throughout the RSA Conference 2018: the merging of identity, privacy, and cybersecurity in one entity. How we define it and how we can protect it.

Fourteen-year RSA conference veteran John Dasher, attended RSA this year as a reporter for ITSPmagazine to interview a variety of people from innovative companies. Here is a summary of his upcoming podcasts on subjects such as IoT, cloud, encrypted devices, RASP, authentication, identity, and risk.

As part of ITSPmagazine's continuing RSA Conference 2018 coverage, our team will be recapping another terrific conference in San Francisco, complete with podcasts, live panel recordings, pictures, and even a few cyber celebrity sightings (remember, if you don't take a photo, it never happened!)!

As part of ITSPmagazine's RSA Conference 2018 coverage, the team at ITSPmagazine will be hitting the road, so to speak, connecting with a number of the conference speakers, presenters, and panelists. We'll use this chronicle to capture the conversations we have so you can find them all in one place. Stay tuned here for more updates as we stop at various places along our journey to RSAC.

So many things to see and so little time on our side – and we are not just talking about San Francisco. RSA Conference 2018 offers a wide variety of attractions if, like us, you are into cybersecurity matters.

On this page, we will report about our plans once we arrive in the City of Fog. 

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Christina Whiting of Tevora chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton for Diverse IT about why diversity is so important in cybersecurity. Quite simply, she says: “I don’t want to be surrounded by a bunch of stormtroopers.”

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

With a year under our belt, was WannaCry the wake-up call the healthcare industry needed to take better care of the systems and data they use to provide patient care? Or, do we still see a situation where our protected health information is less than its name defines; not protected?

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

David Shearer of (ISC)2 Inc. and Julian Waits of ICMCP chat with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton for Diverse IT about a recent industry study on the lack of diversity in cybersecurity.

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

In this part 1 of our 2-part podcast, Gerard Scheitlin from Orion Health looks at the state-run health information exchanges (HIEs) and how patient data is collected, accessed, and shared, giving us some insight into how population health and precision medicine are provided through their leveraging of these systems. The big question is, are we as patients automatically opting in to share our personal health information with the state (and federal) government?