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On this special Unusual Gathering, we have a number of special guests stopping by during two separate sessions. We always believe, the more the merrier.

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Unusual Gatherings | Conversations At The Intersection Of IT Security And Society™ is now a weekly podcast with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli

Where are we going? Where do we come from? Is technology driving and controlling us, or are we still choosing our own destiny? We are lucky. We have a lot of smart friends, we often meet new ones, and we all enjoy a conversation around a fire, a table, a barrel, a monolith, or whatever is available at the time.

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Unusual Gathering | Episode XVI
Conversations At The Intersection Of IT Security And Society

January 16, 2019

Guests
Kika von Klück | Thom Langford

Hosts
Marco Ciappelli | Sean Martin


This Episode:

Advertising, Branding, Marketing, and Privacy in the Cyber Society

On today's podcast we talk about branding, advertising, and marketing in the age of Big Data, Internet of Things, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence and, of course the World Wide Web; the primordial soup pond that has given life to this Cyber Society of ours.

More than one hundred years ago, John Wanamaker, an American merchant and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing," proclaimed,

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.”

So, where do we stand today?

Here is a taste of the questions we tried to answer in this lively conversation:

Did we resolve this century-old problem with technology, or are we still wasting about half of the pie, with the only difference being that now we know where — and how — we are wasting it?

Has creativity in advertising lost center stage, replaced by cold numbers and algorithms? Or do they work together for better results?

Artificial Intelligence, together with humans, is already creating interesting art — can it become part of the creative process to help us expand it?

As interactivity and micro-targeting can offer value by reaching the consumer at the right time for the product or service that is needed or desired, how much deeper can the mind be — or is already — manipulated to the extent of creating those needs and desires by giving the illusion of free will to the consumers?

If the arrival of online advertising, big data and social media was an advertiser’s dream come true, the latest calls for privacy, transparency, diversity, trust, and ethics are reshaping the scenario. But what the final shape look like?

Listen up and find out how we think we could balance creativity, technology, convenience, and respect for the consumers,

BTW, we had a good time and we hope you enjoy this conversation!

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Empower Yourself: From Cyberbullying to a Career in InfoSec Privacy

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Selena Templeton and co-host Marco Ciappelli chat with Whitney Merrill, a privacy and data attorney who also founded the crypto village at DEFCON, about cyberbullying, anonymity and privacy rights. In this inspiring story, Whitney recounts how being cyberbullied in high school, and the frustration of being told by teachers and police that they couldn’t trace the user, led directly to her career in information security, privacy and the law

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To Find InfoSec Talent: Ask Questions—Shut Up—Listen

By Sean Martin

As a long-time recruiter, Kirsten Renner suggests that we may be leveraging processes and technologies to our disadvantage, forgetting about the human element of the whole process. Are you asking the right questions and then shutting up and listening to what the candidates have to say? Or are you hurting yourself in your own recruiting processes?

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Using A Slack Bot To Help With User-Based Security Decisions

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

In this episode, Dinis Cruz, the Chief Information Security Officer at the PhotoBox Group out of London, joins Sean Martin to talk about end user risk management and the value of automating user-based security decisions using ChatOps.

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A Few Philosophical Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence: An Ancient Wish To Forge The Gods?

By Marco Ciappelli, host of The Cyber Society
A conversation with Ariel Herbert-Voss and Sean Martin

Computer science, philosophy, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and many more disciplines are needed to prepare our future with AI. Because we cannot hide behind a pointing finger and say machine did it; that would mean that we, humans, did it.

In my humble opinion, Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally an extension of humanity and an evolution of the state of being human.

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AI Robots Are Developing Prejudices Because Of Us Mere Mortals

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Selena Templeton and co-host Marco CIappelli chat with Ariel Herbert-Voss, a Ph.D. student at Harvard University with a focus on adversarial machine learning, about artificial intelligence, machine learning and unconscious bias. It’s no secret that algorithms are, or can be, inherently biased but the issue is not technology – the issue is about human nature. And we can only build something that is fair if we are.

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NPower Stories: A Conversation with Elizabeth Lopez

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

ITSPmagazine’s Sean Martin and Selena Templeton chat with Elizabeth Lopez, a graduate of NPower’s Symantec Cyber Career Connection (SC3) program and a Security Operations Associate at KPMG, about her story that starts with a knack for computers and a job at the local library — which led her to NPower, a nonprofit that trains military veterans and young adults from underserved communities.

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A Daily Dose Of Cybersecurity. What's Your Serving Size?

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

What does it take to be CyberAware? What can we learn from the cybercriminals? What can we learn from each other? Everyone has a success story and everyone has a failure; how can we leverage these to extract a valuable learning lesson? Sean Martin chats with Jenny Radcliffe and Mikko Hypponen to hear what they’ve learned as they’ve engaged with users, companies, countries, and law enforcement from around the world.

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Chats on the Road to RSAC 2019 | Solving the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage at RSA Conference 2019

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Welcome to the first episode of ITSPmagazine’s 2019 “Chats on the Road to RSA Conference,” a series of podcasts leading up to the annual conference in San Francisco in which we connect with conference organizers, speakers, presenters and panelists. Today’s guest is Karen Worstell, CEO of W Risk Group, to chat about her new “Solving Our Cybersecurity Talent Shortage” seminar at RSA Conference 2019.

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Chats On The Road To RSA Conference 2019 | San Francisco

As part of ITSPmagazine's RSA Conference 2019 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.

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Diverse by Design: How to Achieve a Balanced Workforce

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Selena Templeton chats with Audrey Taylor, Founder & CEO of netlogx, a company that is comprised of 50% female employees – most of whom are in leadership roles – about how they were so easily able to achieve what the rest of the industry is still struggling with. Hint: found a company that is Diverse by Design.

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The Many Flavors Of SAST, DAST, IAST, WAFs, And RASP

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

Nollaig Heffernan and Sean Martin weave, swerve and blast their way through a number of application security technologies looking at the history of the marketplace, the expansion of the technologies, how things stay the same even with the massive changes in continuous delivery and continuous integration.

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It's Your Community. Let's Work Together To Make It Better.

By Sean Martin

In today’s conversation, Candy Alexander from ISSA International and Jon Oltsik from ESG share how important their 3rd annual global survey on the life and times of cybersecurity professionals is to the InfoSec community, who should get involved, and how the coming findings can help the community help each other to make for a better experience as we all fight the good InfoSec fight.

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Changing The DevOps Culture By Shifting Security Left

Three guests join Sean Martin on today’s episode: Tanya Janca (Microsoft), Nicole Becher (NYU/NY-DFS), and Franziska Bühler (Swiss Post). While they are all hailing from different parts of the world, they come together (virtually) on a regular basis, focusing on helping engineering, operations and security teams establish a culture of business-driven security throughout the organization.

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Cyber Snake Oil: A Slippery Panel Discussion

Are you tired of the same old stories from the InfoSec vendors? This panel of givers and receivers should make you chuckle as they tell their stories of success and failures in cybersecurity solution sales. Don’t drink the snake oil too fast!

PANELISTS
Aaron Guzman | Andrew Robbins | Christine Tang (Panda) | Rohan Vazarkar

HOST
Michael Schell

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Human vs. Machine: Fighting Fraud with Machine Learning

By Selena Templeton, host of DiverseIT

Selena Templeton chats Jason Tan, co-founder and CEO of Sift Science, a machine learning fraud and abuse prevention company. The conversation spans the topic of machine learning: how it differs from artificial intelligence, the limitations of ML, how online fraud prevention has been improved upon with ML, unconscious bias, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the consequences of exclusively AI-written content.

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Why Do Bug Bounty Hunters Do What They Do? We Asked Them.

By Sean Martin

Are you interested in becoming a bug bounty hunter? Listen in to see if this world of research and responsible disclosure is for you. Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli speak with two penetration testers that double as bug bounty hunters to get their perspective.

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Managing Risk At Non-Profits - A Healthy Perspective | With Michael Parisi

There are many challenges that non-profits face and a number of standards they must follow; however, this does not excuse them from having the appropriate security and privacy policies, procedures, practices and controls in place. Michael Parisi, VP, Assurance Strategy & Community Development at HITRUST, leverages his knowledge of the healthcare industry to provide some risk management advice for non-profits operating in any any industry.

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The Value of Implementing a Company Security Culture

By Sean Martin, host of At The Edge

Managing risk is hard. Why? Because there are so many moving parts to an organization’s digital environment. So, how does an organization take managing risk and related vulnerabilities to heart while not crippling the business? That’s where this conversation with Dinis Cruz, the CISO for PhotoBox Group, comes in handy.

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Agencies, It’s Time to Get Creative on Cybersecurity

When is the last time your company truly thought about the security of your network, devices and data? If this answer isn’t “yesterday” or “today,” then your agency, and the client data it is entrusted with, might be at risk. Dror Liwer, CISO of Coronet, outlines what agencies can do to get serious about cybersecurity.

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Cybersecurity in 2019: Will It Be the ‘Tipping Point’?

Randy Bagwell interviews Ian Corey and Doug DePeppe of eosedge Legal about their view of 2019 as a “tipping point,” based on Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas in The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, for behavioral change and enforcement of data protection duties based upon events and laws that emerged in 2018.

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What SOCs Can Learn from the Industrial Revolution

With hundreds, if not thousands of security alerts per day pouring into Security Operations Centers (SOC), security professionals are fighting a losing battle. Fortunately, tried-and-true manufacturing techniques can turn the tide. Heather Hixon of DFLabs outlines two techniques that can help even the playing field between SOCs and their adversaries.

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Predictions: The Next-Gen SIEM Will Be Very Different

In 2019, security teams will start using more technologies to achieve detection and response versus simply relying only on standard SIEM alone. But deploying more and more technologies is not enough. SVP strategy at CyberInt Itay Yanovski explains why organizations need to look at Security Operations Centers (SOC) in a different way.

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Command of the Cyber Sea

The Ancient Athenian Themistocles said: “He who controls the sea controls everything.” In today's world, the "sea" is the "communications sea" and the "communications sea" relies on anything and everything cyber. George Platsis of SDI Cyber lays out how somebody has been quietly dominating the communications sea and what the implications are for everybody — including who will rule this empire.

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How The CTO Became The New Chief Privacy Officer

It is impossible for privacy professionals using manual, survey-based approaches to stay on top of an environment of ever-changing data and these days, the CTO is increasingly being tasked with operationalizing their companies’ data privacy solution. Kristina Bergman, CEO and co-founder of Integris Software, outlines four recommendations for CTOs when it comes to Data Privacy Automation.

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Local Governments, Ransomware, And The Public Risk

Local governments and small businesses are frequently being targeted by ransomware attacks. What makes these entities prime targets for malware and how can they avoid being an easy target? Cohesity CTO Steve Grewal suggests what government officials and business owners can do to avoid having their operations halted.

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8 Security Operations Center Essentials

Whether you’re building a security operations center or ensuring that your existing security operations team has all its bases covered, you must ensure that you’re properly protecting your digital assets. Jorge Alago, cybersecurity architecture lead at Veristor, provides a quick rundown of 8 essential components that should be core to your security efforts.

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A Widespread Need To Modernize Security Operations

There is a widespread need for organizations to modernize their security operations. Why? It creates the structure to eliminate distractions caused by chasing compliance mandates and the latest “shiny technology objects” and allows security organizations to reduce enterprise risk. Mark Maxey of Optiv outlines how to get started on modernizing operations.

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How AI and Quality Engineering Improve Business Systems

DevOps is about more than continuous delivery. Prasanna Singaraju, Chief of Engineering and Technology at Qentelli, explains how AI can help fill in the potential gaps to improve application quality and delivery speed as well as user satisfaction.

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Marketing Is Overpromising And Under-Delivering Cybersecurity

The fear-mongering of cybersecurity is ruining the industry, as emotions are being targeted rather rationality. Fear sells, after all. Nathan Burke of Axonius discusses the current state of the InfoSec industry and what the way forward is from here.

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SMBs Are Driving A New Wave of Cyber Insurance Adoption

Cyber Insurance is a rapidly growing market, and small- to medium-sized businesses are driving that growth. Ari Vared, Senior Director of Product at CyberPolicy, explains that as SMBs gather more data to leverage business decisions, they also need to be more aware of cyber risks and be prepared for an incident.

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What If We Are Protecting The Wrong Things?

Too often, companies' security strategies revolve around minimizing reputational damage and achieving compliance. Javvad Malik, an award-winning information security consultant and security advocate at AlienVault, suggests that businesses need to take a more granular approach to focus on protecting employee and customer data instead.

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The Benefit of a Software-Defined Perimeter

This article introduces the concept of a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) as a progressive security model. Don Boxley, co-founder and CEO of DH2i, explains how an SDP overcomes today’s most prevalent data security challenges – especially as cloud adoption continues to soar – while presenting numerous, previously unattainable benefits.

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How Secure Is Your Social Login?

To address the rising tide of data breaches, social network providers have enhanced their built-in security and have focused primarily on improving multi-factor authentication processes. To better understand what varying platforms offer, Ehud Amiri, senior director for product management at OneLogin, looks at how the leading social media sites are protecting their users.

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Maybe Your Refrigerator Should Not Be Trusted with an IP

Despite the common belief that mainframes are secure fortresses of data, it's much easier than businesses might think to access the mainframe by hacking an employee's mobile phone or other connected smart device. Ray Overby, President of Key Resources, Inc., lays out two new ways that cybercriminals can get into corporate networks through a personal IoT device.

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What Is Social Engineering And Human Hacking?

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Let's Go Vertical: Financial Services

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Keeping Things Safe: Device and System Protection

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