Ep. 176 - Security Awareness Series - Bottom Up Context is better than Top Down Control with Nishant Bhajaria

This month, Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Nishant Bhajaria. Nishant is an executive leader and industry-expert in the privacy and security space and currently serves as the Director of Privacy Engineering and Governance at Uber.  He plays the critical role connecting engineering, legal, and leadership to ensure data protection for both the user and the business. Prior to Uber, Nishant spearheaded compliance and privacy engineering programs at Google, Netflix and Nike. He has a Master's Degree in computer science from Arizona State University  In addition to speaking extensively in this space, Nishant also teaches courses around privacy, security and career development on LinkedIn Learning. Nishant authored Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers - a deep dive into strategies on effectively identifying, communicating and addressing privacy risks using technical strategies. [Aug 15, 2022]  00:00 – Intro  00:20 – Intro Links  Social-Engineer.com Managed Voice Phishing  Managed Email Phishing Adversarial Simulations Social-Engineer channel on SLACK CLUTCH innocentlivesfoundation.org 02:17 – Nishant Bhajaria Intro  03:33 – How did your career path start?  05:44 – Balancing security and the end-user experience  09:29 – How to introduce security and privacy concepts into a pre-existing infrastructure  13:50 – Balancing technological freedom with security for your family  19:28 – Bridging divisions for the sake of privacy and security  22:09 – Creating better industry standards  26:28 – How to handle your platform becoming weaponized  30:53 – The ethical issue of data use  35:11 – The role of Social Engineering in privacy and security  39:14 – 3 action steps that companies should start doing right now  42:56 – Find Nishant online  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantjb/  Certification: https://dataprotocol.com/pe-certification  44:24 – Book Recommendations  Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny – Robert Wright Team of Rivals– Doris Kearns Goodwin Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers – Nishant Bhajaria 47:13 – Wrap Up   47:41 – Outro  www.social-engineer.com  www.innocentlivesfoundation.org