By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

W Risk Group founder Karen Worstell chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton about the stresses, frustrations and victories along her journey as she got into, dropped out of, and then returned to an InfoSec life. Part 2 of a 3-part series.

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

W Risk Group founder Karen Worstell chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton about the stresses, frustrations and victories along her journey as she got into, dropped out of, and then returned to an InfoSec life.

Chronicle contributed by Candy Alexander

30-year InfoSec veteran and cybersecurity consultant Candy Alexander shares the two pieces of advice that have come back to her time and time again from her vast experience at ISSA, Symantec, a featured speaker for the IT Security Symposium at the United Nations, and a speaker at the Offices of the White House. 

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

After so many conversations, articles, talks, learning courses, white papers, webinars, and a grand finale of emails in our inbox, GDPR Judgment Day is over and, curiously, nothing seems to have changed and the world wide web seems to be doing just fine.

But is it? Or are we wondering what that meant for all of us?

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

Enterprise Ireland (EI) invests in a wide variety of Ireland-based companies, including lots of technology companies and a growing number of cybersecurity companies. As one of their support mechanisms, EI holds a number of invite-only events throughout the year. Following a session tastefully called "Data and Donuts,” Sean Martin was able to connect with Oran Bambrick from Enterprise Ireland and Michael Schell from Edgescan to get some more insight into EI and a recap for the event.

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Andrew Fitch, Developer Evangelist at Cloudflare, a web performance and security company, chats with ITSPmagazine’s Selena Templeton about Proudflare, an LGBTQIA+ employee group at Cloudflare that provides a safe place to network with other gay-friendly people.

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

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.

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

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.

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

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.

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

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?” 



By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

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. 

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

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.

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

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.

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society

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.

By John Dasher

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.